{"id":10603,"date":"2022-05-13T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=10603"},"modified":"2022-05-16T22:43:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T03:43:30","slug":"what-is-empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/what-is-empathy\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Empathy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Empathy is the ability to understand the perspectives and feelings of others. Some writers have referred to empathy as a superpower, while others speak of an empathy deficit.\u00a0 Check out <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this article <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to learn about what empathy looks like and how you can practice it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"1\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verywellmind.com\/what-is-empathy-2795562\">Why Empathy Is Important<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Empathy is the ability to emotionally understand what other people feel, see things from their point of view, and imagine yourself in their place. Essentially, it is putting yourself in someone else&#8217;s position and feeling what they must be feeling.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empathy is the ability to understand the perspectives and feelings of others. Some writers have referred to empathy as a superpower, while others speak of an empathy deficit.\u00a0 Check out this article to learn about what empathy looks like and how you can practice it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.verywellmind.com\/thmb\/RWPZyKn7lbdHv2Hwgka69djXk8c=\/800x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)\/what-is-empathy-2795562_source_file-1102e99b63214d12ad63732278597497.png","fifu_image_alt":"What Is Empathy?","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[546,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-10603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wellness","8":"tag-empathy","9":"tag-mental_health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10604,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10603\/revisions\/10604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}