Together: Loneliness, Health and What Happens When We Find Connection

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Murthy’s book makes a powerful case for the role of community and human connection in medicine. He provides cogent and compassionate insights about how to heal the art of healing.”

Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a

Growing up, Malak, Kees, and Jenna have always struggled to reconcile their own wants with their expectations as Muslim women. Yet, as they age, the balancing act between religion and rebellion becomes harder to manage. Malak wants the dream – the perfect blend of faith and love. Kees has fallen for a white Catholic man whom her family would never accept. Jenna’s years of partying hide a desperate loneliness. As their college years close, one night will change everything and force all three of them in different directions.This recent debut is a beautiful tale of two brothers against the world, and completely for each other. From the beginning, we know that one of the brothers is already gone, and, like Dancing at Lughnasa, it’s the pain of knowing this as the story of Finn and Joe unfolds that makes this book so wrenching. This family story could have been played for tears, but the writing is tight and unsentimental, and all the more powerful for it. Although we were often together, the reality was each of us were often in our own worlds emotionally and mentally. We were active as a family, yet apart. Some books enlighten, but others stun. TOGETHER is a stunner. It made me rethink much of what I believe about physical health, public policy, and the human condition. By revealing America’s epidemic of loneliness — and then offering an array of remedies for the condition — Murthy has done a great service, and made TOGETHER the most important book you'll read this year.” Professor Renos K Papadopoulos, PhD, University of Essex. Clinical Psychologist, Family Therapist and Jungian psychoanalyst; author of Involuntary Dislocation. Home, Trauma, Resilience and Adversity-Activated Development A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists.

Togetherness: Creating and Deepening Sustainable Love

The colors show the shapes how talented they are by mixing yellow and blue to make green. The shapes show the colors how two triangles combine make a square. They argue until . . . an octagon and the color red collide. Whoa! Maybe they are all better together. It’s silly fun about the power of cooperation! Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love (Hardcover)Team members go above and beyond their role for, and on behalf of, the team (e.g., they encourage and support their teammates to achieve their potential). What a book! So much material, so many examples of hope emerging out of coming to terms with painful tragedy. The Contributors to this title have brought to life the challenges, and the joys of helping people to find their inner resources to cope with perhaps the worst of human experience – violent inhumanity. This is achieved by offering the reader examples of what has made a personal difference from groupwork projects around the world. The power of the group experience is revealed in many ways as people spend time together, seeking a way forward and offering each other support and encouragement. There is something fundamentally enhancing to the person through positive and constructive group experience. This title is impressive and inspiring, offering examples of how the best of human experience can help people to find new lives after experiencing the worst of humanity. And on a lighter note: from reading this book I now understand the therapeutic power of sprouting broccoli. You will have to read it as well to discover this. In our age of shuttered Main Streets, dying malls, and the proliferation of weak links on social media, we’re missing vital personal connections. In Together, Dr. Vivek Murthy brilliantly diagnoses what ails us in our personal lives and in society, and offers a prescription for enriching each other’s lives—and our own.” An unforgettable story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner beautifully describes love, friendship, betrayal, and redemption. Be warned that the novel is violent and graphic at times, so understand that while moving, the story is dark and disturbing. It’s that contrast between the worst of human nature and the best that truly brings out a remarkable tale that will stay with you for a long time. Sheltering in place can also reveal our desire to be isolated while others desire to be face-to-face. We can keep our hearts close and connected through praying for each other regularly.

Together: Why Social Connection Holds the Key to Better

The book we need NOW to avoid a social recession, Murthy's prescient message is about the importance of human connection, the hidden impact of loneliness on our health, and the social power of community.Framing the injustices against torture survivors, including asylum seekers, as moral transgressions requiring moral responses, this book brings together a collection of varied and powerful group practice examples of such responses. Togetherness, in group-based and community-based work with survivors, is exemplified as both a metaphor and as a means to foster solidarity against injustice, human connection, awareness-raising and collective action, towards the restoration of the human dignity of survivors and towards justice. In an era of individualising, pathologising psychological therapies being heralded as solutions to all forms of trauma, this book reminds us of the immense creativity and power of groupwork in enabling change beyond the individual. It is a timely and an invaluable resource for all those working with refugees and survivors of human rights abuses. In hindsight, it is not surprising that, as a society- a global society- we are increasingly more lonely. Our brains have evolved to depend on smaller communities, and we are wired to belong to our tribes. But our lives today, for most of us, are in stark contrast to those basic evolutionary necessities. We’re increasingly more isolated, and the pervasive loneliness prevents us from forming meaningful relationships in a time where digital connectedness seemingly offers opportunities to be more connected than ever. But this book explains how being connected and belonging to a community are so different, and offers hope for restoring our shared humanity. Four classmates from a small Massachusetts college all find themselves in New York City trying to make their way in life: wannabe actor Willem, aspiring painter JB, entry-level architect Malcolm, and Jude who holds them all together. Over the decades, their friendships deepen but also darken – fighting addiction, coping with trauma, and balancing ambition and success. In 1974, Kate Mularkey becomes best friends with the cool new girl at school, Tully Hart. As Tully becomes a celebrity news anchor and Kate chooses to be a stay-at-home mom, their friendship full of love, jealousy, anger, and laughter will shape their lives over the next three decades. You’ll love the dynamics of the relationship between Kate and Tully, watching them renegotiate their friendship and struggle with their codependency as they each grew in different directions.