Healing Out Loud With Jackie Shea

Jason Snell, Friend, Artist, clearly takes a great rugged phot How to Help a Sick Friend: Jason Snell (http://jasonjsnell.com/) and I have been friends for 12 years. Initially, we trauma-bonded and built our friendship on codependency, then, years later, we got lucky enough to build a healthy, nourishing, peaceful and fun friendship. Jason—lucky for him— happens to have multiple close friends who have struggled with extreme chronic illness. Why did I bring him on? Because he has subtly been an extraordinary friend through all of our experiences. In this episode, find out how to help a sick friend and what made Jason's friendship through illness so different from others. Find out what keeps a friendship intimate, strong, light, and generally fulfilling for both parties in the midst of chronic illness or simply a very dark time. But, even further, listen in if your interested in making the switch from pseudo-intimacy to a deeper intimacy, the shift from enmeshment to love. Discussed in this epis