David Hood
@davidahood
David Hood
@davidahood

As the trauma specialist Bessel Van Der Kolk surmises ‘being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives.’35
Doing the hard work together and Mutual Support
Mental health and safety
As Richard Bartlett explores in his series of articles on Microsolidarity,40 becoming a Community Creature involves finding harmony between the many aspects that compose our inner ’community of one’, but also includes improving our ability to maintain highly cohesive relationships at the one to one level, ’Pod’ level (3-6 people) and ‘Collective’
... See moreSocially 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
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