By Kavitha Cardoza, Clare Schneider — 2021
Perhaps the most important takeaway is the power of friendship . . . a friend can be a lifeline.
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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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Part memoir and part guidebook, Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. is the invitation you’ve been waiting for to show up with your whole self and discover the intimate, meaningful relationships you long for.
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Eva Hagberg spent her lonely youth looking everywhere for connection: drugs, alcohol, therapists, boyfriends, girlfriends. Sometimes she found it, but always temporarily. Then, at age thirty, an undiscovered mass in her brain ruptured. So did her life.
We all yearn for intimacy, but we avoid it. We want it badly, but we often run from it. At some deep level we sense that we have a profound need for intimacy, but we are afraid to go there. Why? We avoid intimacy because having intimacy means exposing our secrets.
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