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Scenario

When friendships lose their intellectual edge in favor of emotional safety

My closest friend and I used to challenge each other's thinking about everything and it made both of us sharper, but somewhere in the last few years we've started protecting each other's feelings instead of telling each other the truth, and I miss who we used to be together.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people have traded the gift of mutual challenge for the comfort of mutual validation, and both sense something essential has been lost.

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Hypatia
Hypatia works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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