#80 Why Spending Time With Your Friends Is More Important Than You Think with Dhru Purohit

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Alternative Health, Mental Health

4.8 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Loneliness is an epidemic. We are surrounded by people yet many of us feel empty. Why is this? This week, one of my best friends, entrepreneur and podcast host, Dhru Purohit explains that many of us are craving deep meaningful connected friendships and we don’t even know it. We have the feeling that we are in control of our lives, that we are surviving, but we miss the fact that we need a deep connection to others to truly thrive. We discuss the power of touch and how having someone to open up to about the way you feel literally calms your nervous system down. We talk about why making friendships is harder as an adult and why this is a particular problem for men – a fifth of whom say they don’t have any close friends. We chat about our own personal experiences and what works for us.

These days, many of us expect our partner to be everything to us – from confidant to our best friend – Dhru explains why having friendships outside of our intimate relationships is essential. Finally, we delve into how we can deepen the friendships we have and how communication is essential to maintain them. Dhru’s insights are invaluable and I think they will really make you examine the relationships in your life. I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation, I hope it inspires you to take some time out to sit down and talk to one of your friends.

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0:00.0	Most people don't realize that they have a friendship and a disconnection problem.
0:05.6	We have people around us. We have friends online. There's people that we're following.
0:09.2	It doesn't see... We're not isolated. We're not in the woods somewhere living in a cabin by
0:13.7	ourselves, not seeing anybody. So most people don't even recognize that there's a challenge
0:19.2	when it comes to deep, meaningful, connected friendships in their life and the impact that it has
0:25.2	on everything else that they care about.
0:28.0	Hi, my name is Rongan Chaschi, GP, Television Presensor, and author of the best
0:33.6	selling books, The Stress Solution and The Four Pillar Plan. I believe that all of us have the
0:38.7	ability to feel better than we currently do, but getting healthy has become far too complicated.
0:44.8	With this podcast, I aim to simplify it. I'm going to be having conversations with some of the
0:49.8	most interesting and exciting people both within as well as outside the health space
0:54.8	to hopefully inspire you, as well as empower you with simple tips that you can put into practice
1:00.1	immediately to transform the way that you feel. I believe that when we are healthier,
1:05.2	we are happier because when we feel better, we live more.
1:11.2	Hello and welcome back to episode 80 of my Feel Better Live More podcast. My name is Rongan
1:18.7	Chaschi and I am your host. Now today's conversation is all about a topic that I don't feel
1:24.6	gets mentioned enough in the concepts of our health and our wellbeing. And that is friendship.
1:31.5	For me, friendship is not a luxury for good health, it's an absolute necessity.
1:36.9	You see, loneliness is an epidemic at the moment. We're surrounding why so many people these days,
1:42.4	especially online, yet many of us feel empty. So why is this? Well, this week one of my close friends,
1:50.3	entrepreneur and podcast host Drew Perrhit, explains that many of us are craving deep,
1:56.4	meaningful connected friendships, yet we don't even know it. We have the feeling that we are in
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