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The Dear Body Podcast

167 - The Art of Making Friends; A (Badass) Guide for Adults

The Dear Body Podcast

Jessi Jean

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.7652 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever googled, “How to make friends as an adult?”… guilty! Making friends as an adult can feel so challenging. On today’s episode Jessi empowers us with a badass guide on how to find our people & strengthen our current relationships. Newsflash! It’s going to take time, energy, effort & intention to build these solid connections. You’ll leave this episode feeling encouraged to put yourself out there & start attracting some dope people!   Links: Sign for Jessi’s VIP email list here where she will share exclusive content *You don’t want to miss the 1st email which includes an EPIC workbook guide for alll my visual gals on Nervous System Regulation!*   Ready to begin your journey to a peaceful relationship with food & confidence in your own skin? Click here to learn more information about The Food Freedom Online Program.   Find more tangible techniques + tools on how-to: reprogram your behaviors with food and conquer binge & emotional eating: Instagram Tik Tok

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0:00.0

Why is it so uncomfortable and so hard and so fucking awkward to make friends as an adult?

0:16.3

We have vehicles.

0:17.6

We can go places.

0:18.6

We don't have a curfew.

0:20.3

We have a place that we live. We could

0:22.5

invite people over to. Why does it feel so damn uncomfortable? And be real, have you ever

0:27.9

Googled how to make friends as an adult? I definitely have Googled this. And if you have,

0:32.9

I need you to send me an Instagram message right now. send me a DM, let me know that you too

0:37.5

have Googled that. It is hard to make friends as an adult, but this is a bad ass guide for

0:44.4

doing just that. Just a few years back, I felt very insecure in friendship and adult friends.

0:51.5

I didn't have many at all. And the ones that I did have, they just

0:56.1

weren't all that deep. And I was longing for those soul connections. I was longing for rich,

1:02.5

friendship, depth of connection in my relationships. And I didn't know how to get it. And I was

1:07.0

dealing with so much social anxiety and feelings of unworthiness and a lot of trauma

1:11.5

actually in my history with friends. And I'm going to share with you everything I did from

1:17.8

switching my mindset to how I showed up as a friend, to the activities that I do with my friends.

1:24.4

I'm going to share it all with you. This is a badass guide. So buckle up. We are about to unpack this. If you are feeling insecure in your friendship

1:34.0

situation right now, first of all, I want to remind you, it's a lot easier to make friends

1:38.8

in high school or in college or if you are in a workplace with a lot of individuals that, you know,

1:45.7

are similar in age and interests and whatever, it's easier when we're forced to be around

1:50.6

people to make friends. It's a whole lot harder when we become adults and we have a lot of

1:54.7

responsibilities and we have jobs that occupy a lot of our time and we don't have a lot of opportunities for downtime or chill

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