perel – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Sat, 01 Jul 2017 17:58:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Esther Perel: Sex, Stability, and Self-Fulfillment https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/06/esther-perel-sex-stability-and-self-fulfillment-2 Thu, 01 Jun 2017 19:07:04 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=57834

Therapist and author Esther Perel explores our ‘existential aloneness’ in this film. Much as technology continues to open new doors for connection, the rapid cultural changes of the past 100 years allow us to choose the sort of life we wish to live. We make our most important connections by choice instead of having them mandated to us by tradition. But as is the case with technology, sometimes it isn’t clear if we are primed to use these new opportunities to build more fulfilling lives or simply to frustrate ourselves, building a world where more people feel alone.

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