The One Habit That Kills Friendships - Lisa Hurley on Community and Autism
What if rejection resilience isn't a skill built inside your own head, but a cushion other people hold for you?
Alice is joined by Lisa Hurley — Caribbean American author of Space to Exhale, founder of the virtual community The Great Exhale, and a Black woman living with autism who grew up in Barbados being treated as "the community's child"
Together they unpack why Western individualism may be quietly manufacturing more fear of rejection — not more independence — and what the Caribbean village model offers anyone trying to build rejection resilience in a city of strangers. But what makes…
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