Key points

Intimacy and genuine connection with other people are far more accessible than you think.

Intimacy can be quickened and deepened by learning how to create “safe space” with others.

A surprising and consistent result of sharing vulnerability (in a safe space) is that people lean in, not out.

When I was in high school, I spent a fair amount of time in the principal's office, for reasons which more or less boiled down to “trouble at home” and the fact that I had issues with authority figures, like teachers.

But it was in the principal's office that I met the school counselor who changed my life—because among her various interventions on my behalf, she invited me to join a weekly “rap group” made up of fellow students who met in her office, under her direction, to talk about ou

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