Relationships

The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging is more like a sketch of where to go than the kinds of GPS-enabled maps that we’re used to today, but that’s not a criticism.  Community and belonging are necessarily context dependent, and as a re...

Useful.  In short, the concept of attachment that started with Bowlby so long ago is useful.  It’s useful for shaping parents’ responsiveness, public policy, and even understanding how adults respond in relationships.  It’s even important to understa...

As with my review of Boundaries , I had read Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships  some time ago. I had held back posting a book review of it because I didn’t think that I was reading it for professional growth. However I real...

My journey into the material from the Arbinger Institute  started in 2012. The book Bonds that Make Us Free  was recommended by a counselor. That led me to reading Leadership and Self-Deception  and The Anatomy of Peace . That was all the content of the...

Attachment didn’t start with adult relationships.  It started with the study of children and their behaviors.  It started with an attempt to understand why some children would cling to their parents, some would avoid them, and some would explore when the...

In America, we’ve become more divisive and more polarized in our politics, but why?  In Why We’re Polarized , Ezra Klein seeks to explain the progression of polarization and the factors that drive it.  Short on solutions, Klein is content to describe a pro...