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Sharing – 5 New Books on the Science of Making and Keeping Friends
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Sharing – How to support someone with depression
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Link – Unlearning the Lessons of a Toxic Childhood
I have written about this before, children learn about the world and their place in it based on their own little world. When that is short-circuited, it’s a struggle to relearn it as an adult: All children learn about the larger world by extrapolating from the little world they grew up in, that of their…
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