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New in paperback. Originally published
as SOUL FRIENDS. Best-selling author Stephen Cope explores the
essence of human connection through five essential
types of relationships.
“Destined to be a classic. . . . . Cope makes us want to risk
making real, intentional human connections-and makes us long to
celebrate them, and to allow them to transform us into
fully-conscious and fully-alive human beings.”
- Geneen Roth, New York Times best-selling author of Women, Food
and God and Lost and Found
Do you long to connect more deeply with other human beings? Do you
wonder if you're living up to your human potential to make these
deep connections happen-and perhaps missing out on this most
compelling aspect of a vital life?
In this groundbreaking new book, best-selling author Stephen Cope
invites us to explore the most important questions in this domain:
What is the nature of human connection? Why, precisely, is a
capacity to connect deeply so important to the development of our
minds, bodies, and spirits? What are the actual mechanisms of
connection that we must master during the course of life? How can
our lack of connection inhibit our happiness and satisfaction in
life? Can we learn to connect more wisely than we do?
Cope is well known as a master storyteller, and in this new book he
seamlessly blends science, scholarship, and storytelling, drawing
on poignant stories from his own life as well as the lives of
famous figures-from E. M. Forster to Sigmund Freud to Queen
Victoria-whose formative relationships shed light on the nature of
connection itself. In the process, he lays out in stunning detail
the precise mechanisms of human connection, which he distills into
five helpful categories: containment, twinship, adversity,
mirroring, and conscious partnership. Then he invites us into a
remarkably practical reflection on how these forms of connection
appear in our own lives, helping us work toward a fuller
understanding of deep human connection-and a more satisfying and
fruitful life.
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