Taking the Long Way Around: A Mother's Journey into Wilderness Therapy and Beyond

I had planned to write about two books in this space but I couldn’t stop writing about Daring Greatly so that plan has given way.   Of the many helpful books I’ve read this last year Daring Greatly is second only to the The Parallel Process and I wish I had read both long ago, although likely I would not have been ready for the messages contained in them.  Who, other than therapists, read such books unless compelled by a crisis?  And few of us even then, really want to look too hard at ourselves and the roles we play in the problems that arise in our families, much less, change.  From where I sit now, I’m amazed that I believed my own psychic landscape (a minefield) was my problem entirely and shut off from having an effect on my child.  Hah.  Brown trained in social work, but moved toward academic research examining what led people to “connect” (or not) and the effect connection (or lack thereof) has on a person’s sense of w...