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    The Friendship UPgrade: Trade Clickable Connections for Friendships that Matter
    The Friendship UPgrade: Trade Clickable Connections for Friendships that Matter
    The Friendship UPgrade: Trade Clickable Connections for Friendships that Matter
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    The Friendship UPgrade: Trade Clickable Connections for Friendships that Matter

    Written by Heather Dugan

    Narrated by Heather Dugan

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    About this audiobook

    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. 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.

    ""Like Bowling Alone (2000) and the works of Brené Brown, this book sensitively probes the cultural factors that lead to feelings of isolation while advocating for vulnerability and letting go of shame. Self-knowledge and nonjudgmental understanding of others are twin goals. Loneliness is not a personal failing, Dugan reassures readers, but a symptom of a life that needs to change. Headed sections, sets of questions to ask oneself, and lists of positive and negative character traits to look for in potential friends add up to a well-structured and user-friendly text . . . Accessible, detailed advice for building authentic friendships." Kirkus Reviews

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHeather Dugan
    Release dateSep 19, 2019
    ISBN9781094208015
    The Friendship UPgrade: Trade Clickable Connections for Friendships that Matter
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    Heather Dugan

    A nationally published writer, columnist and author as well as a voiceover and video talent/producer, Heather's focus is on creative communication and human connection. Helping others to tap into their talents and "launch" is a primary passion, and Heather's public speaking and radio/TV interview topics include life launching; divorce, dating and relationships; healthcare patient responsibility and work/family issues. Her newest book "Date Like a Grownup: Anecdotes, Admissions of Guilt & Advice Between Friends," examines the impact of loneliness and social obsolescence on men and women in their second single lives, and provides punctuating proof that looking for love from a place of isolation is as unwise as grocery shopping on an empty stomach. Other books include: "Pickup in Aisle Twelve," a witty romp through the absurdities of mid-life dating and "Stuffing Sandwiches Down My Shirt: Strategies and Inspiration for Crutch Users." "Profile on Page Nine" will be released in 2014. Links to books and audio/video clips can be found at her main website: http://www.heatherdugan.com, and she enjoys connecting with readers via social media and on her websites. Passionately curious, Heather is both a dedicated traveler and lifelong learner. She resides in Central Ohio with her children and a wayward chocolate lab, is slightly addicted to the outdoors and would never let her passport expire. She considers humor to be her best accessory.

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