Episode 25: Friendships: Finding Mom Friends, Friendship Breakups, and Modeling Healthy Friendships for Kids with Dr. Miriam Kirmayer

No One Told Us

Rachael Shepard-Ohta

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 590 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Episode 25: Friendships: Finding Mom Friends, Friendship Breakups, and Modeling Healthy Friendships for Kids with Dr. Miriam Kirmayer We’ve all heard how important it is to have your “mom circle” but has anyone else ever thought that this is actually really hard to find? If you’ve felt this, you’re not alone. Adult friendships can be really hard especially as new moms. This week Rachael speaks with Dr. Miriam Kirmayer to talk all about adult friendships. Find out why it is so hard to make new friends as an adult, how to navigate friendships when parenting styles conflict, and how attachment style can impact friendships. They chat all about the importance of friendships for moms and having a “circle” of other moms and some of the potential effects on people who don’t have connections. Find out some tips on ways to make and meet new connections, plus so much more! Dr. Miriam Kirmayer is a clinical psychologist, leading friendship expert, and influential speaker on human connection and social support. With over a decade of research on the science of friendship, Dr. Miriam is revolutionizing the way we show up for, mentor, and connect with each other. She is one of the first and only clinical psychologists to specialize in adult friendship and shares guidance on navigating friendship and relationship challenges with tens of thousands of people through her popular online community. She is also a mom of two. Instagram (@miriamkirmayer): https://www.instagram.com/miriamkirmayer/ Facebook (@miriamkirmayer): https://www.facebook.com/MiriamKirmayer LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/miriam-kirmayer Learn more about her NEW course, Confidently Connected: Building Meaningful Friendships here! Register now until Sunday, February 11th at 9:00 pm EST! Registering for the course gives you access to…. The Friendship Forum! The live workshop that kicks off the course the evening of February 13th at 8:00 pm EST. Rachael is a mom of 3, founder of Hey, Sleepy Baby, and the host of this podcast. Instagram (Show page) Tiktok (Rachael's tiktok account) Show Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to No One Told Us, the podcast that tells the truth about parenting and talks about all the stuff you wish you knew before having kids.
0:10.8	I'm your host, Rachel Shepard Ota, and today I'm speaking with Dr. Miriam Kermeyer, who is a clinical psychologist, leading friendship expert, and an influential speaker on human connection and social
0:22.4	support. With over a decade of research on the science of friendship, Dr. Miriam is revolutionizing
0:27.6	the way that we show up for, mentor, and connect with each other. She's one of the first and only
0:32.2	clinical psychologists to specialize in adult friendships and shares guidance on navigating
0:37.2	friendship and relationship
0:38.5	challenges with tens of thousands of people throughout her popular online community.
0:43.1	And she's also a mom of two herself.
0:45.1	So thank you so much.
0:46.3	Welcome to the podcast.
0:47.5	I'm so happy to have you.
0:48.8	Thank you.
0:49.4	I'm so glad to be here.
0:51.0	I'm really excited to talk with you about this.
0:52.7	And we've chatted in the past.
0:53.9	I think that
0:54.5	this is such an important topic and one that people are kind of like embarrassed to talk about,
1:00.5	just judging by what people tell me on Instagram and what I've gone through in my own life,
1:04.5	that making friends and keeping friends, especially in those initial years postpartum, can be
1:10.7	really challenging and can
1:11.7	feel really lonely. So I'm so glad that you're here to talk with us about this.
1:15.7	Yeah. I appreciate you drawing attention first and foremost to that piece of the shame that can
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