“When my daughter was diagnosed as autistic, I learnt to relax” The desire to defend against rejection is one of the deepest ones, and it compels more of our acts and choices than we will ever know. As a child, being marked as an outsider feels especially threatening,...
“My obsession with health left me half-starved.” The pursuit of bodily perfection is a common tactic that women use to try and protect themselves against judgement. But if that preoccupation occurs just as we find ourselves vulnerable and unprotected in some other...
Feeling that we are safe in our beds when we sleep and that we can trust the ground we walk on are two of the basic beliefs we need to hold if we are to be able to wave off our loved ones and head out into the world each day. But when we learn that the people and...
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