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Isolated from others, our bodies and brains wither. Nearly every aspect of our physical and mental well-being suffers.
Stephen W. Porges • Our Polyvagal World
Recent events have completely exposed the limits of individual agency, creating a powerful demand for squad-based forms of resiliency. The COVID-19 pandemic is the most recent of these social bonding agents: though we're physically distancing, emotionally we're getting closer.
otherinter.net • Other Internet
Socially and politically, we’re promoting policies, regulations and lifestyles that are making people ill to such a degree that stress, trauma and anxiety are being woven through and through the social fabric. Indeed there is a strong case to say that stress, anxiety and depression are, in fact, the entirely appropriate response to a world in which
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
The science of apathy and empathy, loneliness and resilience is critical to understanding the complex puzzle of the human brain and the human heart, and essential to understanding our emotional lives, our communities, and the broader society.
Sharon Brous • The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World
I was thinking here of how isolation and loneliness, which I would sharply distinguish from solitude, can warp and disfigure our cognitive faculties. The more isolated we find ourselves, the more harrowing and disorienting the experience of uncertainty.