Sublime

Of the many emerging descriptions of our social brain, for me the simplest and most elegant is the highly regarded Social Baseline Theory of Lane Beckes and James A. Coan, two researchers at the University of Virginia.

to enabling us to pause before we act, have insight and empathy, and enact moral judgments.

Let’s rank people based on their ability to co-regulate with other individuals

we recognize that this mental event was not the totality of who we are, we gain the reflective distance and the freedom to take responsibility for our actions and feelings.

I was using my talks as my own therapy.

When children learn to pay attention to and share their own stories, they can respond in healthy ways to everything from a scraped elbow to a major loss or trauma. What kids often need, especially when they experience strong emotions, is to have someone help them use their left brain to make sense of what’s going on—to put things in order and to na

cogent

Modern culture is not promoting an integrative self, identity, or belonging. This impairment to integration is leading to the accelerating chaos and rigidity in our personal, public, and planetary lives.