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Notes From Daniel Brook’s Book “The Trap”

In my post from July 29th, 2010, I announced that Daniel Brook will be kicking off the Foundation’s Roll Your Own Lecture (RYOL) Series. For more on the RYOL Lecture Series, click on the button above. In my earlier post I talked briefly about Daniel’s book The Trap—Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America. […]

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Daniel Brook to Kick Off RYOL Lecture Series

Author Daniel Brook will be kicking off the FHL Foundation’s Roll Your Own Lecture (RYOL) Series. Daniel is coming to Albuquerque on Friday, September 10th, 2010, to talk about his book The Trap—Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America. Here’s what Daniel’s publisher has to say about Daniel’s book: In this witty and revealing polemic, […]

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Insecure People at Higher Risk of Heart Attacks | LiveScience

Insecure People at Higher Risk of Heart Attacks | LiveScience. I’m trying a new (to me) feature of WordPress—the Press This feature. The idea is really simple. If you find an article on the web that you think would be of interest to your blog readers, you can activate the Press This feature, and, voilà, […]

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Attachment and Resilience: The Politics of Nature or Nuture

A colleague just sent over materials that contain the following quote by Nancy Davis: In the popular press and in many programs, “resilience” is frequently used as if it were a character trait, as in “John is very resilient.” However, using the term this way has had an unintended but serious negative consequence in that […]

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Considering Attachment Theory and Body-Mind: The “Dual” That Results

About a year ago I attended a presentation on resiliency in children. As I sat listening to the presentation I found myself saying something like, “The information on resiliency being presented here fits well with an attachment theory perspective.” As an example, the presenter said that resiliency does not come about simply because parents, family, […]

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