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Understanding our bodies’ numbing response to social rejection can help us respond in healthier, connecting ways. Learn more about belonging here.
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Understanding our bodies’ numbing response to social rejection can help us respond in healthier, connecting ways. Learn more about belonging here.
What is secure attachment and why do you need to develop one with your child?
“Be sure that when your parents were younger and when my parents were younger, they also worried about who liked, and did not like them. That is a big part of what it means to belong to a social group. We worry about this constantly as individuals. Human beings are fraught with this sense,” says political psychologist Prof Rajen Govender of the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, UCT. Today, technology has, in many ways, given us an instrument to enhance our sense of belonging: that one instrument can have simplified the way we connect with each other is astounding, and from “b...