Nourished Connection by Deborah MacNamara

What does it mean to be nourished?
Nothing could be more basic than food. However, food is only one part of the
concept of nourishment, but it has consumed our focus and eclipsed
something far more critical for thriving - connection. We have lost sight of the
fact that feeding our families is about human relationship and emotional wellbeing.
In Nourished, developmental and relational clinical counsellor Dr. Deborah
MacNamara shows us how feeding is part of the caretaking relationship and
cannot be separated from it. Informed by attachment science, developmental
psychology, neuroscience, and research on human emotion, Nourished
reframes our approach to providing for our kids and helps us hit the reset
button on our relationship with food. After reading this seminal work, it will be
impossible to ever view food as just plain food again.
As parents we need our kids to be receptive to what we offer but the road to
the stomach must go through the heart. As relational and emotional creatures,
our deepest hunger is one that food by itself cannot fill. In this book, Dr.
MacNamara gives us the keys to transform the everyday act of feeding our
children (and other loved ones) into a most fulfilling and nourishing dance of
attachment. Based on developmental and relational science, qualitative
research with families, counselling parents, and her own experience as a
mother, in Nourished, MacNamara combines storytelling with science and
puts food in its rightful place.

Dr. Deborah MacNamara is a clinical counsellor and educator with more than
twenty-five years experience, and is the author of the bestselling book Rest,
Play, Grow: Making Sense of Preschoolers (or anyone who acts like one) and
The Sorry Plane . She is on faculty at the Neufeld Institute, operates a
counselling practice, and speaks regularly about child and adolescent
development to parents, childcare providers, educators, and mental health
professionals. She continues to write, do radio and television interviews, and
speak to the needs of children and youth based on developmental science.
Deborah resides in Vancouver, Canada, with her husband and two children.
Before he retired, Dr. Gordon Neufeld had accumulated more than 40 years of

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On Sale: Sep 19/23
9 x 6 • 288 pages
9781774582558 • $24.95 • pb
Family & Relationships / Parenting