Go Away, Come Closer : When What You Need the Most is What You Fear the Most

We can't live completely isolated from others. We can try. But, intimacy has always been a risky business. Hard to figure out, harder to achieve. This book reassures the reader that a lifestyle of intimacy is a risk worth taking. It is a reflective and personal look at how our fear pushes others away; our relentless pursuit of intimacy via romance and ecstacy; our inability to find acceptance where we are; and our need to see intimacy as a celebration of life as it is and not as it should be. There are a lot of people and books that will tell you what to do--five easy steps and all that--and even more to make you feel downright horrible for what you didn't do. This book doesn't tell you what to do. It give you permission to recognize that the journey begins with you.