Articles

Writing on relational life, emotional truth, and the practice of tending the space between people.

Before Words: Ogden, Containment and the Making of the Hearth

Thomas Ogden, primitive experience, and the relational conditions in which feeling becomes thinkable

Piaget, regulation, and the maturation of the Hearth

Piaget, relational schemas and the Hearth

Piaget, perspective and the relational conditions of reciprocity

Why relational safety determines what conversation can accomplish

How protective responses begin reflecting one another across the relational field

Adult presence, emotional truth, and the space that lets feeling enter relationship

Presence, continuity, and the experience of being received in relationship

Relational ignition and the moment an exchange begins generating emotional force of its own

Rupture, repair, and the practice of finding the way back

How a relational middle becomes inhabitable when two forms of protection create incompatible conditions for safety

How repeated experiences between people become expectations carried into the present