{"id":21180,"date":"2026-08-11T11:27:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/?p=21180"},"modified":"2026-08-11T11:27:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:27:52","slug":"lisa-forbes-recently-published-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2026\/08\/11\/lisa-forbes-recently-published-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Forbes Recently Published a Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Play and the Heart\u2019s Refusal to Harden challenges the belief that play is something we outgrow. Drawing from psychology, play therapy, education, social critique, and personal experience, Lisa Kosena Forbes explores how cultures recruit us into seriousness, productivity, and disconnection\u2014and how play helps us resist.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a book about becoming more playful for the sake of having fun. It is a book about remaining alive in a world that often asks us to harden. Through stories, humor, research, and reflection, Forbes examines why so many adults lose access to play, how social systems shape our relationship with aliveness, and why play can be a powerful act of curiosity, connection, imagination, and hope. For anyone who feels exhausted, disconnected, overwhelmed, or stuck in survival mode, this book offers a different question: not \u201cHow can I play more?\u201d but \u201cWhat conditions help people come alive?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/playstorypress.org\/books\/play-and-the-hearts-refusal-to-harden\/\"><strong>Click here to learn more or purchase\/download the book<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2026\/08\/11\/lisa-forbes-recently-published-a-book\/lisa-forbes-book\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21181\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21181\" src=\"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/files\/Lisa-Forbes-Book.png\" alt=\"Lisa Forbes Book Cover\" width=\"212\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play and the Heart\u2019s Refusal to Harden challenges the belief that play is something we outgrow. Drawing from psychology, play therapy, education, social critique, and personal experience, Lisa Kosena Forbes explores how cultures recruit us into seriousness, productivity, and disconnection\u2014and how play helps us resist. This is not a book about becoming more playful for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-house","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21183,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21180\/revisions\/21183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}