Bethany Saltman, STRANGE SITUATION: A Mother's Journey into the Science of Attachment

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🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Writer and poet Bethany Saltman didn't set out to write a memoir but when her research into the life and studies of Mary Ainsworth overlapped with her own childhood, she knew she had to delve into her past. Bethany tells Zibby about how Ainsworth's attachment theories apply to the often complicated relationship she had with her older brothers, in which ways her familial past has affected her connection to her own daughter, and what the dynamic with her mother is like today.

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0:39.7	Bethany Saltman is the author of Strange Situation, a mother's journey into the science of attachment. The paperback for this
0:45.1	book just came out, and we originally did this as an Instagram live. Bethany is an author,
0:50.5	award-winning editor and researcher. Her work has been seen in magazines such as the New Yorker,
0:54.6	New York Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, parents, and many others. Her first book, Strange Situation,
0:59.6	A Mother's Journey into the Science of Attachment, was published in April 2020 by Random House.
1:04.6	Bethany also works as a best-selling book coach, a communications director, and an in-demand
1:09.7	mindfulness mentor, consulting writers
1:11.8	and entrepreneurs at all stages of the creative process. She helps her clients envision and
1:16.4	execute projects from book proposals to content development and messaging to big ideas and more.
1:21.6	In 1992, Bethany graduated from Antioch College, where she was one of the architects of the
1:26.9	nation's first affirmative consent policy.
1:29.3	She went on to receive her MFA in poetry from Brooklyn College in 1994, where she studied with Alan Ginsberg.
1:35.2	In 2020, Antioch awarded Bethany the Rebecca Rice Award for Achievement and Profession.
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