Give And Take

My guest is Eva Hagberg Fisher. Her new book, How To Be Loved (https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Loved-Lifesaving-Friendship/dp/054499115X), is a luminous memoir about how friendship saved one woman’s life, for anyone who has loved a friend who was sick, grieving, or lost—and for anyone who has struggled to seek or accept help. Eva Hagberg Fisher 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. A brain surgery marked only the beginning of a long journey, and when her illness hit a critical stage, it forced her to finally admit the long‑suppressed truth: she was vulnerable, she needed help, and she longed to grow. She needed true friendship for the first time. How to Be Loved (https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Loved-Lifesaving-Friendship/dp/054499115X) is the story of how an isolated person’s life was ripped apart only to be gent