ICYMI: Why Adult Friendships Are So Hard To Maintain and The Secret To Forming New Connections, with Dr. Miriam Kirmayer
Episode 151: ICYMI: Why Adult Friendships Are So Hard To Maintain and The Secret To Forming New Connections, with Dr. Miriam Kirmayer
Teach Me How To Adult · Dr. Miriam Kirmayer, Cailyn Michaan, Gillian Berner
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Show Notes
Welcome to today’s ICYMI, where we kick off the week with a quick game-changing tip from one of our guests that you might have missed.
If you’ve been wondering where TF all of your friends are, you’re not alone. It turns out we replace half our friend group every seven years! But if we’ve learned anything along our journey into adulthood, it’s that friendships are crucial to our mental and physical well-being. So, this week, we're taking a trip down memory lane to revisit some of our favourite moments with psychologist and friendship expert, Dr. Miriam Kirmayer, who sheds light on why it's so difficult to maintain our friendships as adults and provides us with two game-changing tips on how to form new connections!
Having spent over a decade researching the science of friendship and helping people live more connected lives, Dr. Miriam is a clinical psychologist, writer, speaker, and leading expert on friendship and social connection. She’s appeared on some of our favourite media outlets, from Call Her Daddy to Vogue and The New York Times.
She sits on the Mental Health Advisory Committee for Wondermind, a media company co-founded by Selena Gomez, and is a member of The GenWell Project, a human connection movement. She also has a private practice and is one of the first and only licensed clinical psychologists to specialize in friendship therapy!
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