179. How to Fix Our Loneliness with Dr. Marisa G. Franco

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

1. How your attachment style determines how you make – or don’t make – friends and becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. 2. How Dr. Franco’s work helped Glennon make healthy adult friendships over the past year. 3. Why we’re lonelier than ever – and how that loneliness can make us sick. 4. Why platonic friendships are beneficial to the health of our romantic partnerships. 5. Learning to “trust the spark” when you meet a potential friend – and concrete steps to foster new friendship. About Dr. Franco: Dr. Marisa G Franco is psychologist, international speaker, and New York Times bestselling author known for digesting and communicating science in ways tha change their lives. She works as a professor at The University of Maryland and authored the New York Times bestseller Platonic: How The Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends. TW: @DrMarisaGFranco IG: @drmarisagfranco

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0:00.0	And to be loved, we need to be known.
0:07.8	Well hello, everyone.
0:09.6	Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things.
0:11.1	Today we're talking about friendship, loneliness, how the hell we do friendship, how we find
0:18.8	friends, make friends and keep friends.
0:23.2	And before we introduce our guest, I want to talk to you about why I'm obsessed with
0:29.9	her and why I think this is just the perfect time and place to talk about loneliness and
0:36.6	friendship.
0:37.7	So last night I got back from a trip.
0:40.7	Half the people on this friend's trip are on this podcast, okay, so Abby's sister and
0:45.2	then a few other friends.
0:47.4	We went away together for friend time.
0:50.2	We got back last night.
0:53.4	This is the second trip that this group has done together.
0:56.4	We went away last year.
0:57.9	When we went away last year together, someone on that trip mentioned some information from
1:04.7	her life about eating disorders.
1:07.5	And it threw me into a tailspin after that is when I went into my deep therapy for anorexia.
1:16.6	This trip was with that group.
1:20.5	During my first therapy meeting, the therapist looked at me and said, so how is how you deal
1:26.4	with food the same as how you deal with people.
1:31.4	And so I said, oh, come the fuck on.
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