Season 9 Ep 17 (352) : What friendship taught me about love

About this episode

The episode explores the fear of openly loving friends and the resulting disconnection many feel.

There’s often this quiet fear around openly loving your friends: being perceived as soft, dependent, emotional, or “too much.”But I think that fear is exactly why so many people feel deeply disconnected while pretending they’re fine. Catch the full read on substack : https://open.substack.com/pub/notesfromthebirdbrain/p/what-friendship-taught-me-about-love?r=7bqfwq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

People in this episode

Host: Isaiah Frizzelle

Topics covered

• friendship
• love
• emotional connection
• self-acceptance
• vulnerability

Keywords

• friendship
• love
• emotional
• vulnerability
• self-improvement

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