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🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Friendships play a vital role in life, and navigating the complexities of maintaining and handling conflicts in adult relationships can be challenging. Dr. Miriam Kirmayer, a renowned Clinical Psychologist and leading Friendship Expert, advocates for recognizing the power of connections in fostering health, growth, and collective social well-being. We delve into the importance of friendships in adulthood, exploring the positive impact on mental and physical health while addressing challenges like conflicts, support situations, and jealousy. Offering practical strategies, she guides individuals in creating resilient connections, collaborative workplaces, and deeply fulfilling lives. Dr. Kirmayer shares tips for letting go of toxic friendships, how to make new friends as an adult, and maintaining all types of friendships as life evolves.
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0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
0:02.8 | Welcome back to the Life with Mariana Podcast. I'm your host Mariana and I'm so excited for this episode because this is actually |
0:13.8 | in two parts. Friends are so important to us so I have Dr. Miriam |
0:17.1 | Kermire and she is a psychologist and a friendship expert. I asked her so many |
0:21.0 | questions about friendships, how to end a friendship, what to do in |
0:24.0 | conflict, what to do if you maybe don't like your friends partner, what to do if they're venting |
0:28.1 | to you, about their relationships, and how to navigate so many things like finding new friends, |
0:32.1 | moving into new city |
0:33.1 | finding friends as an adult I know all these things are really challenging for |
0:36.2 | so many of us so that's why I wanted to have her on this episode if you |
0:39.0 | haven't heard the first part yet go back to the first part of this |
0:41.1 | episode because it's such a good one. |
0:42.8 | Now let's hear from Dr. Miriam Kermire. |
0:47.2 | So that was a lot about ending friendships, but something happier is making new friends. |
0:52.4 | And it is very challenging as an adult. |
0:54.8 | It's challenging when you're working and you're not in school, |
0:56.7 | especially if you work remote or you've moved somewhere. |
0:59.8 | So I have a ton of questions that I prepared and also |
1:02.4 | from other people. |
1:03.4 | What are some of the best ways to make new friends as an adult? |
1:06.0 | I love talking about this. |
1:08.0 | It's one of my favorite things talking about because again, we don't talk about this and this one of the themes that I was |
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