Toni Collier: You’re Not Meant to Do Life Alone

The real test of friendship isn’t the birthday dinner or the vacation photos. It’s who you call when your life quietly implodes—and who actually picks up. When author Toni Collier went through a public divorce, and what she called “her most humiliating season,” it wasn’t a crowd that saved her; it was a handful of people who refused to leave the room. That experience became the heartbeat of her new book, Don’t Try This Alone: How to Build Deep Community When You Want to Hide from Your Pain