56. The Life-Saving Power of Friendship with Eva Hagberg Fisher

The Power of Friendship Eva Hagberg Fisher ( ) is an author, educator, and media strategist. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Wallpaper, Dwell, Wired, Tin House, Guernica, and more. She holds degrees in architecture from Princeton and UC Berkeley, and a PhD in Visual and Narrative culture from UC Berkeley. How To Be Loved, about the life-saving power of friendship, is her debut memoir and was called “stunning” by the New York Times, “dazzling” by publishers weekly, and “surprisingly funny” by most readers. Discussed in this Episode: Brain surgery Mast Cell Activation Syndrome Mold Toxicity and living in a tent in the desert Elusive illness vs. traditionally accepted illnesses How illness softens a person Surrendering to illness The healing power of friendship through illness Facing and healing intimacy issues The miracle that occurs when you need to ask for help Vulnerability The need for reassurance and learning to trust yourself Emotionally abusive relationships Growth through difficult experiences Friendship with others who are sick vs. friendships with those who don’t understand How helpful social media is and the useful tool it is in healing Eva’s advice to those who don’t have as strong of a support network Judging the sick—we both did! Deep grief Healing illness PTSD with yoga teacher training and EMDR Resources Mentioned: How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship Jen Brea’s film, Unrest I am Lonely, I am Loved, the essay The Two Kinds of Decay, the book Self-Care Tool: While the power of friendship is transformative and necessary sometimes it’s good to have a reminder that you have everything you need already inside of yourself. Eva brings us the practice of placing a heavy hand on our chests in moments of desperation for external support, feeling your chest rise and fall and reminding yourself: I have everything I need inside.   You are powerful, my love. Go get ’em. Other Episodes like This: How to (Actually) Help a Sick Friend: Codependent to Supportive Lyme disease and How Community Helps us Heal Support this Podcast: Become a patron Follow me on IG @sheajackie

You can listen to 56. The Life-Saving Power of Friendship with Eva Hagberg Fisher online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

56. The Life-Saving Power of Friendship with Eva Hagberg Fisher is an episode from Healing Out Loud with Jackie Shea by Jackie Shea.

This episode is 59:01 long.

This episode was published on Mar 25, 2019.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from Healing Out Loud with Jackie Shea when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.