Best of Communities VII - Relationships, Intimacy, Health, and Well-Being

Best of Communities Magazine

Communities magazine is the leading publication for all topics related to intentional community. From the broad-stroked overviews to the intimate details, this quarterly publication covers it all. With so much content to explore, we’ve distilled it into a single compilation!

Volume VII – Relationships, Intimacy, Health, and Well-Being

A key component of living in community is developing and maintaining healthy relationships based on compassion, emotional depth, and authenticity. Oftentimes, the emphasis is on quality of connection, not the ability to fit relationships neatly into the traditional categories of nuclear family and binary identities.

In this book you will learn: 

• the range of relationships that exist and develop inside community
• how community can provide a precious safety net when members face devastating health challenges
• how community offers hope for coping sensitively with mental health issues in the era of de-institutionalization
• the ways that communities are pioneering an attempt to redefine security in terms of relationships

You will recognize authors leading the intentional community movement, representing cutting-edge thinking and how-to explorations of the social, ecological, and economic aspects of sustainable living.

Volume VII includes the following articles:

1. G8
2. Growing Family in Community
3. What’s Masculine, What’s Feminine, and What Am I?
4. Relationships in the Crucible
5. Relationship
6. Breaking Up (While Staying in Community)
7. “Make It or Break It”
8. Honesty and Intimacy
9. Living Outside the Box
10. Permaculture
11. Growing a Culture of Community Health and Well-Being at Earthaven Ecovillage
12. Lessons from the Orchard: A PEACH of a Health Care Plan
13. Making Lymeade: Turning Mid-Life Crisis into Opportunity
14. Gut Health
15. Artabana Solidarity Communities: New Paths for an Integrated Health Care System in Germany
16. Mental Illness in Community: What Can We Offer?
17. Rx for “Mental Illness”: Caring Community

You can have ALL the BEST

Volume VII is part of a 15-volume compilation of the Best of Communities magazine. The set includes over 200 articles about intentional communities from the 1990’s and 2000’s. Purchase the entire set and save!

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