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Welcome to Friendship Therapy, the podcast in which we look at friendships through a therapeutic lens.

Well we've had some wonderful guests this season talking about childhood friendships and how those early experiences

shape the friendships that will make as adults.

So, who better to help us talk about the way those friendships form

than someone who's in the middle of making them right now.

This week I'm talking to Elsa.

She's 10 years old, she's an expert on childhood friendship,

and she also happens to be my daughter.

We're chatting about what makes a good friend,

when is magpieing actually copying. How to deal with it when a friend hurts our

feelings and my own personal friendship nemesis the group of three.

Please do bear with us if the sound quality is slightly affected this week.

Many sweets were consumed in the making of this episode.

This week on Friendship Therapy we're doing something slightly different

in so far as so many of our listeners have talked about situations in

their childhood and where things have gone well and maybe where things haven't gone so well in childhood

friendships and to be quite honest how it still informs the way we make friends now.

And I decided that where better to go than to the horse's mouth?

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