Ep. 288: Modern Friendship: Understanding Why We Find It Challenging with Anna Goldfarb
The Baggage Reclaim Sessions
Natalie Lue
4.9 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Natalie talks with author and journalist Anna Goldfarb about why modern friendships feel so complicated, exploring how to navigate relationships in an age where we're more connected yet often feel more isolated than ever.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Natalie Lou and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions, a podcast about building, |
| 0:07.6 | growing and sustaining healthy and intimate relationships with yourself and those around you |
| 0:12.9 | by reclaiming yourself from your emotional baggage. Since 2005, I've been writing one of the |
| 0:19.0 | longest running self-help blogs in the world, |
| 0:21.2 | baggage reclaim. I'm a dating and relationship coach, and I'm also author of five books, |
| 0:26.2 | including Mr. Unavailable on the Foreback Girl and the Joy of Saying No. |
| 0:31.2 | Everything I share on the podcast will help you break the cycle by healing the past through |
| 0:36.2 | increasing emotional availability, |
| 0:38.7 | cutting back on people pleasing, creating healthier boundaries and ultimately owning who you are. |
| 0:44.6 | You don't have to settle for crumbs from yourself or others, |
| 0:47.3 | and you can give and receive love, care, trust and respect. |
| 0:51.5 | Okay, let's do this. |
| 1:00.1 | Hello, hello, hello. How are you doing? Welcome to February. |
| 1:08.9 | It is nice to be sitting in front of the mic again. I am still in recovery mode after my surgery last month, but I've been really looking forward to today's |
| 1:13.1 | conversation, which is with my friend Anna Goldfarl. She's the author of the book Modern Friendship |
| 1:19.7 | and has been writing about friendship for years of various publications, including the New York |
| 1:25.8 | Times. I knew that I wanted to have this conversation with her because, you know, |
| 1:31.2 | I visited friendship a number of times on a podcast. |
| 1:35.0 | I know it's something that a lot of you struggle with. |
| 1:38.8 | I became keenly aware of this. |
| 1:40.7 | I feel like it was maybe 2015, 2016, where I noticed that I heard from as many |
| 1:47.2 | people about friendship as I did, for instance, about romantic relationships, but that often a lot |
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