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The Friendship Upgrade

Heather Dugan

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Description:We’ve grown disconnected. Many of us live amidst strangers as we tally up Facebook friends— the new collectible you don’t have to dust—and settle for “Soon!” It’s often easier for an adult woman to find an online date than a real-life friend in her own neighborhood. The Friendship Upgrade illuminates the growing issue of personal isolation and equips women to exchange clickable connection for real time, face-to-face friendships. Through the deeply personal stories of real women, it examines our varied routes to isolation—divorce, an emptied nest, increased mobility—as well as the impact of technology, over-efficient living, and the patterned choices that can root us in chronic loneliness. More importantly, this book provides both a roadmap to creating anchoring connections and a model for building community with the disconnected “you go first” women around us who are silently hoping for the same outstretched hand.In the book, Dugan recalls years of loneliness following the back-to-back deaths of her parents and a lengthy divorce. Her new lifestyle as a self-employed single mom of three young children seemingly locked her into loneliness. Her freelance writing and voiceover career provided few ready social opportunities, and she describes how simply walking into school meetings made her feel like an awkward middle schooler “with a lunch tray, wishing I could just disappear and wake up when my face had cleared up and my glacially growing breasts had gotten a fair chance to catch up with my nose.”With the help of many experts interviewed for the book, Dugan explores the impact of ordinary life transitions, technology, and “opportunity clutter” on our interpersonal connections, asserting that, as a society, “we’re chronicling our lives instead of living them. Compressed responsibilities leave many of us acting more like stressed administrators of our lives than happy participants.” She examines our heightened focus on productivity, suggesting that it often morphs into an urgency that is “absent direction, strategy, or goal,” leaving people less likely to develop sustainable relationships. Dugan bolsters her assertions with relevant data points and riveting real-life stories from the dozens of women interviewed for the project and provides action steps with which women can "upgrade clickable connections, find face-to-face friendships, and begin building their own mutual support systems."Women need friendship. Not in an unhealthy, life preserver sort of way—but in the organically good capacity of illuminating grow lights. In the right light, solid female friendships counter-balance the uneven weight of major life transitions and help us to be our best selves—often, better people than we dreamed we might be.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Friendship Upgrade. To get started finding The Friendship Upgrade, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 176

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Headline Books

Release: 2019

ISBN: 194666457X

Description: We’ve grown disconnected. Many of us live amidst strangers as we tally up Facebook friends— the new collectible you don’t have to dust—and settle for “Soon!” It’s often easier for an adult woman to find an online date than a real-life friend in her own neighborhood. The Friendship Upgrade illuminates the growing issue of personal isolation and equips women to exchange clickable connection for real time, face-to-face friendships. Through the deeply personal stories of real women, it examines our varied routes to isolation—divorce, an emptied nest, increased mobility—as well as the impact of technology, over-efficient living, and the patterned choices that can root us in chronic loneliness. More importantly, this book provides both a roadmap to creating anchoring connections and a model for building community with the disconnected “you go first” women around us who are silently hoping for the same outstretched hand.In the book, Dugan recalls years of loneliness following the back-to-back deaths of her parents and a lengthy divorce. Her new lifestyle as a self-employed single mom of three young children seemingly locked her into loneliness. Her freelance writing and voiceover career provided few ready social opportunities, and she describes how simply walking into school meetings made her feel like an awkward middle schooler “with a lunch tray, wishing I could just disappear and wake up when my face had cleared up and my glacially growing breasts had gotten a fair chance to catch up with my nose.”With the help of many experts interviewed for the book, Dugan explores the impact of ordinary life transitions, technology, and “opportunity clutter” on our interpersonal connections, asserting that, as a society, “we’re chronicling our lives instead of living them. Compressed responsibilities leave many of us acting more like stressed administrators of our lives than happy participants.” She examines our heightened focus on productivity, suggesting that it often morphs into an urgency that is “absent direction, strategy, or goal,” leaving people less likely to develop sustainable relationships. Dugan bolsters her assertions with relevant data points and riveting real-life stories from the dozens of women interviewed for the project and provides action steps with which women can "upgrade clickable connections, find face-to-face friendships, and begin building their own mutual support systems."Women need friendship. Not in an unhealthy, life preserver sort of way—but in the organically good capacity of illuminating grow lights. In the right light, solid female friendships counter-balance the uneven weight of major life transitions and help us to be our best selves—often, better people than we dreamed we might be.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Friendship Upgrade. To get started finding The Friendship Upgrade, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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