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🗓️ 11 May 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Author Kristen Strong gets real about the highs and heartbreaks of adult friendship. From chasing connection after countless moves to learning when to let go, Kristen shares honest lessons on being a good friend—to others and yourself. If you’ve ever felt lonely or struggled to find your people, this episode is for you.
Kristen Strong, author of Girl Meets Change and Back Roads to Belonging, writes as a friend offering meaningful encouragement for each season of life so you can see it with more hope and less worry. She and her US Air Force veteran husband, David, have three children. Together this military family zigzagged across the country (and one ocean) several times before settling in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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| 1:05.0 | I was not born with a lot of natural ability to make friends. |
| 1:15.8 | We don't think of it as something that's a vital importance, which it really is. |
| 1:20.2 | You know, we know that we need to work on our romantic relationships, our familiar relationships. |
| 1:25.6 | We don't necessarily think friendship requires or deserves that same amount of time. |
| 1:29.4 | I like to think of it is like a breadcrumbs of communication as opposed to a sit-down meal that is meeting with another person. And so therefore, |
| 1:35.6 | we don't really know that we're starving because we're getting just enough to get by. So like |
| 1:40.7 | open up and show up. Because there's something about when you open up your home, you open up a bit of your heart. |
| 1:45.8 | And I know there's a vulnerability there, which makes it scary. |
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