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How To Break Up With Your Friends! Re-evaluate Your Roster & Create True/Meaningful Friendships

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Health & Fitness, So Much To Say, Athlete, Taylor Swift, Perfectionist, Eating Disorder, Friendship, Self Help, Self-improvement, Self Care, Athletes, Mental Health, Overcoming Eating Disorders, Body Neutrality, Sports, Education, Body Image, Recovery, Perfectionism, Real Talk

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Erin Falconer is a digital entrepreneur, psychotherapist, and author of “How to Break Up with Your Friends: Finding Meaning, Connection, and Boundaries in Modern Friendships." With her master's degree in clinical psychology, Erin took to human relationships and social patterns. Her book sheds light on the qualities of genuine friendships and shares the deeper principles for nurturing them. She was named “one of the top digital entrepreneurs in Los Angeles” by Los Angeles Confidential and “Top 10 Women Changing the Digital Landscape for Good” by Refinery29. Today we dive into the nitty gritty about friendships, how to make true and meaningful connections with people, and also how to break up with friends that either no longer serve us or are going a different direction in life!

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a DR Media Production.

0:30.0

New episodes of WithWit are available every Tuesday on All-Prot Farms.

0:37.8

Welcome to RealPod. It's your host Victoria Garrick and this is the podcast where we hold nothing

0:43.4

back. Oh, so we're getting deep, huh? I've really cried for 12 days straight. Why do I want to be

0:49.4

perfect? There's nothing in my life that is perfect. Every week I'll bring you honest, unfiltered,

0:54.5

and eye-opening conversations to help uncover the real in all of us. I crave the type of content

1:00.2

that you're talking about. I actually felt insecure. Oh my god, am I gonna cry? Let me just unload

1:04.9

everything. New episodes every Wednesday leave those filters at the door because it's time to get real.

1:12.5

I am so excited for today's guest and episode. Like, oh my gosh, can we just get the interview,

1:27.2

but real quick before we do, I have to use some context. Okay, so I'm so excited to have this

1:31.7

conversation because friendships and social dynamics, all of that is so important, right? Because

1:38.0

it's important to our lives to have community and people we trust and that we can hang out with and

1:42.4

have fun with. And I feel like my journey with friends and friendship has been ever changing and

1:49.6

evolving, you know, over the past three to five years in my life, you know, in high school, yes,

1:55.6

I had some great friends and that was convenient because we all showed up and we went to class

2:00.0

together and we went to the same sports teams together. But in college, I really struggled to find

2:05.6

like a friend group. And also in the adult world, it's not that easy to make friends. So I've had

2:12.7

quite the journey just kind of changing my own approach to friendship, how I was viewing people

2:18.5

and also realizing I was putting up walls way too early to be more vulnerable and open. And

2:23.9

we're going to get into all that today. I'll share a bit about that experience for me. Arian is

2:28.7

going to talk to us about what it means to be a great friend. And also how to break up with your

2:33.3

friends. How to filter through people who just are no longer serving. I hate to say serving you

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