> In The New Belonging: Finding Your Safe Haven in a Modern World I take up an issue that has been close to my heart for a long time. While research and writing I found that very many other people, particularly women, are concerned about the question of where and how to belong in a modern world. Whether this is at work, within the family or at an even broader plane within society, the rapid changes that have taken place in our world in a short space of time have left us with a great challenge.
Modern psychology has called it our most important motivation aside from our basic physiological needs. History has shown us that in its negative form it is highly destructive. The loneliness, depression and dissatisfaction so prevalent in our modern developed societies beckons us to consider what belonging in our age really means.
In The New Belonging I explain why we find ourselves in this crisis and how it is precisely in its depths that we have the opportunity of embarking on a revitalizing process of discovery. I look into specific individual dilemmas of belonging to place, community including the work place, and family that readers will recognize and consider how to work through them. I take up controversial issues such as the extent to which our engagement in virtual worlds and our work places can offer us belonging.
The New Belonging is written in response to letters from my readers and the personal concerns of my retreat participants. Each one has in some way wondered how I have managed to create a home and working life in an environment so radically different from my previous life. Each in their own way has asked me the same question: "How can I find belonging?"
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