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5 Days to Better & Healthier Friendships

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5 Days to Better & Healthier Friendships

How to nourish and strengthen your chosen family ties
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While sometimes overshadowed by romantic relationships, friendships are just as important for our well-being and for living a healthy, fulfilled life. Most friendships begin or are held together by similar interests, shared experiences, or kinship but these are fragile bonds that need to be nurtured constantly to become a lasting presence in our lives. In this collection, you'll learn how to build and foster trust, how to set boundaries to avoid toxic friendships, and how to make friends as an adult.

5 Days to Better & Healthier Friendships

How to nourish and strengthen your chosen family ties
Friendship Is Different For Everyone
Friendship Is Different For Everyone
The Baggage Reclaim Sessions
What happens when you feel conflicting feelings about friendships? We're taught that friendships should be easy or should look a certain way, and when they're not we can be left feeling confused. Friendships grow, wane and end, you grow and change in them, and expectations can change over time making us ask ourselves, "Isn't friendship supposed to feel good?" In this episode, you'll learn about integrating all those different ideas of what friendship really means. You'll also get an understanding of why we sometimes get caught up in toxic friendships, and what you can do to break free from unhealthy friendship patterns and have closer, more genuine connections with your friends.
12 min
4.8
Set Boundaries, Find Peace
Set Boundaries, Find Peace
Nedra Glover Tawwab
A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
28 min
4.6
How to Win Friends & Influence People
How to Win Friends & Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Basic rules for how to make a good first impression
18 min
4.7
The Power of Friendship and Purpose: Marta Zaraska
The Power of Friendship and Purpose: Marta Zaraska
A Productive Conversation
Tired of workout routines and diets going nowhere? Luckily, they’re not the only way to improve our health and wellbeing. In this productive conversation, science journalist Marta Zaraska explains how having an active social life is one of the most important things for living a long and healthy life.
13 min
4.4
Platonic
Platonic
Marisa G. Franco
How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make - and Keep - Friends
18 min
4.4
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