How can I find and maintain long lasting friendships?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In this episode, Dr. Julie Hanks coaches Whitney and addresses the question "How can I find and maintain long lasting friendships?" Friendships change and evolve, and that can be painful. It can be more painful when we have early experiences that tell us the story we are not valuable as a friend. During this episode, Dr. Hanks guides Whitney through how to challenge her thoughts and beliefs about being a valuable friend, including identifying what the behaviors would look like if Whitney beli...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to
0:23.2	prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your faith. I'm your host,
0:29.2	Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women
0:34.5	all over the world heal themselves and their relationships.
0:38.3	Join me here every week as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them
0:43.0	with tools to find healing.
0:45.2	Today on the podcast, I'm happy to welcome Whitney.
0:48.5	Welcome to the show.
0:50.2	Hi, thanks.
0:51.7	What is your question for me today?
0:54.9	So, as I was thinking about the questions I wanted to ask and trying to, like, organize my thoughts,
1:02.5	a lot of feelings of being, like, replaceable or disposable as, like, a friend kind of came up.
1:10.7	I can't really seem to keep anybody around. So it kind of makes me
1:16.1	feel like I'm not good enough as a friend or I'm not like a good enough person. Like even looking at
1:22.1	my life, even just like six months ago or like a year ago, you know, my friend's circle is just completely
1:28.1	different. And some of those friends even just feel like strangers at this point.
1:33.3	Mm-hmm.
1:33.9	So I don't really know if I have like unrealistic expectations or I don't know.
1:40.8	Okay. So the first question I have for you is, do you have experience with abandonment in your early life?
1:53.2	I don't think so. Like my parents are married, like they raised me. And I can't really think of anything. Yeah. And how long have you
2:06.0	have difficulty keeping and maintaining friendships? I've honestly probably since like high
2:13.1	school, I think. I kind of just felt very used in high school. Okay.
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