{"id":150,"date":"2012-01-25T15:50:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T15:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2012-09-06T17:10:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T17:10:06","slug":"the-healing-of-forgiveness-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/the-healing-of-forgiveness-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"The Healing of Forgiveness &#8211; Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forgiveness is a tool for resolving excessive anger in a variety of contexts and disorders. As stated before, forgiveness had been shown to decrease anger, anxiety, and depression and\u00a0increase an individual&#8217;s sense of hope and self-esteem. Many individuals come to therapy because they have experienced considerable injustice from others, sometimes over years. Forgiveness is one of the direct routes to dealing with anger born out of injustice in a way\u00a0that is constructive and healing. Forgiveness therapy is\u00a0straightforward and many are now asking for this sort of help, &#8220;How do I forgive someone who has hurt me so badly?&#8221; Forgiveness therapy offers explicit approaches for altering thoughts about past events and people who have been unfair to an individual. Forgiveness therapy is a\u00a0way for both client and therapist to examine situations where\u00a0the client\u00a0was (or\u00a0still is) treated unfairly for the express purpose of helping the person to understand the offender, to learn to\u00a0slowly let go of anger with this person and, over time, to make a moral response of goodness toward the offender(s).\u00a0 If you or someone you know may need counseling, please contact Lamar Hunt Jr. or see his website at <a href=\"http:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/\">http:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgiveness is a tool for resolving excessive anger in a variety of contexts and disorders. As stated before, forgiveness had been shown to decrease anger, anxiety, and depression and\u00a0increase an individual&#8217;s sense of hope and self-esteem. Many individuals come to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/the-healing-of-forgiveness-part-two\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,30],"tags":[10,11,63,88,40,41,28,9,6,7,8,38,39,12,13,37,27,29,36,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarhuntjrcounseling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}