S1, Ep 6 BITESIZE Friendship Therapy: Friendship Reminiscences - are we filling in the wrong blanks?
Friendship Therapy
Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
This week, Emma met Charlotte, whose fear of losing a treasured childhood friend has her questioning how to keep the spark alive in long-term friendships. When Charlotte and her friend see each other, they can pick right up where they left off: but are they spending too much time down memory lane, rather than updating their friendship into the present?
In this bitesize episode, Emma digs deeper into the impact of nostalgia in long-term friendships, how our childhood friends are caretakers for past versions of ourselves, and why passivity or non-confrontation in friendship break-ups can cause us to reinforce our blind spots and fill in the wrong blanks.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is sponsored by Protein Works, creators of award-winning tasty food, shakes and snacks. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to this bite-size episode of Friendship Therapy, |
| 0:18.0 | the follow-up to the earlier episode this week in which we met Charlotte. And hopefully today an opportunity for us to think about some of those therapeutic learnings that we took |
| 0:26.0 | from Charlotte's story what they might mean for you, what they mean for me, what we might want to do differently. |
| 0:34.0 | Charlotte was a 32 year old who, by her own admission, was scared of losing, |
| 0:39.0 | an old friend, and increasingly aware of the pressures that she was facing on her social time as she |
| 0:45.2 | called it or as we came to understand it her friendship energy quota nearly 20 years of |
| 0:51.7 | friendship in Charlotte and this particular friend could always pick up exactly where they left off no matter how much time had passed, but with those inevitable life changes getting in the way of the opportunities they had to connect, |
| 1:04.8 | Charlotte was understandably worried that their friendship might fizzle out. |
| 1:09.7 | So in this bite size episode, let's start by talking about the impact of nostalgia in long-term |
| 1:17.0 | friendships. |
| 1:19.7 | Reminissing, trips down Memory lane, nostalgia in friendships of old is a heady drug. |
| 1:27.0 | It's like being able to get off your life as it is today and reconnect with a point in the past in the past life maybe a |
| 1:35.5 | past self it's just like nothing has changed that's certainly how Charlotte |
| 1:39.9 | described it that I can just go back we can laugh we can reminisce about old times we have all those shared |
| 1:45.7 | experiences we have been through so much together that there's like a history there a legacy |
| 1:52.1 | that means that in some respects our friends certainly our |
| 1:57.5 | long-term friends maybe particularly our childhood friends are a caretaker of a |
| 2:02.4 | version of ourselves. And when we pick up the phone or we reconnect, |
| 2:07.0 | it can be like nothing has changed because there is so much that we share. |
| 2:12.0 | But things have changed and things will change. |
| 2:16.8 | Things should change. So does a friendship need to keep up with us in our current version for them to stand the test of time? |
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