How to Be a Better Friend with Rachel Wilkerson Miller

Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven

Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Is it possible to have TOO many friends? (Hint: yes it is.) Today on the podcast, we chat with author Rachel Wilckerson Miller about how to be a good friend to yourself and others. Rachel is the perfect person to talk to about this because she wrote a whole book on this topic (The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People…order it NOW). Today we deep dive into all things friendship, including how to be a good friend, how to balance all your friendships, what to do when conflict arises and creating tools for implementing boundaries.

In This Episode We’ll Cover:

How to be a good friend without burning yourself out
How to deal with conflict in a friendship (because avoidance is not the answer)
Practical tools for setting boundaries with your besties
& MORE!

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:03.0	Hi, I'm Wendy.
0:04.1	And I'm Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast.
0:07.0	Your online resource for inclusive and accessible wellness.
0:21.2	Welcome back everyone.
0:23.2	Today we are going to be talking about friendships.
0:27.3	Jess and I have been friends for over 10 years and we know how hard it can be to maintain a healthy
0:35.3	friendship, a friendship that is active.
0:38.2	And sometimes especially as people are going through changes, it could be kind of challenging to show up as a friend
0:44.8	in a way that the other person actually needs you to show up in.
0:48.4	So we're going to be talking with Rachel Wilkerson Miller who we've had on the podcast before.
0:54.5	And she's a senior editor at Fox and the author of two books,
0:58.4	thought journaling a practical guide and the art of showing up how to be there for yourself and your people.
1:04.2	Yeah, yes, we love Rachel.
1:06.4	Shall we say obsessed?
1:10.4	Rachel, we're not listening.
1:11.8	No, she's just like so cool.
1:14.0	If I had room for friends, I would want to be her friend, IRL.
1:18.4	But she talks about everything from how COVID has tested friendships to when you're in a friend
1:26.1	group and having a problem with another friend in that friend group, how to like communicate that to
1:30.5	others without like gossiping, how we can hold our friends accountable and also hold ourselves
1:36.5	accountable and really receive feedback.
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