How To Make More (Real) Friends | E50

Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

YAP Media Network | Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 890 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2014

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Feeling connected to other people is one of the most important factors in how happy people feel. Humans are social animals, and that’s true whether you’re an introvert or an extrovert. We need each other. And social media relationships don’t count, from a happiness perspective. While actual, real world lets-hang-out relationships are strongly associated with happiness and perceived wellbeing, the opposite is true for Facebook relationships. People who spend more time on Facebook tend to be less happy, more lonely, and generally sadder than people who spent less time on it. A phone call will do much more for your mood than a scroll through your news-feed. But the truth is that connecting with others can feel challenging sometimes, especially in adulthood. Even for people who made friends effortlessly as kids or young adults can struggle to find new relationships as life evolves. I talk to people all the time who are attractive, smart and interesting — and who still feel really lonely and isolated sometimes. So on this edition of the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast we're going to tackle this problem (and lick it's face until it giggles): How to make more (real) friends.

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0:00.0	This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bavi and you're listening to the Love, Happiness and Success Podcast. And that delightful song is called The Walls Are Coming Down by Fanfarlow.
0:34.6	It kind of remind me of Davachica.
0:36.6	I like it. Anyway, appropriate for today, because today
0:40.4	we are going to be talking about how to make more real friends. And when I say real friends,
0:46.9	I mean in-person friends that you actually hang out with, not just social media friends.
0:55.8	And it can be complicated. I know it sounds like a weird thing to talk about, especially for adults, but the truth is, is that a lot of
1:00.1	really cool, fun, nice people are lonely and it's not their fault. And if that might be you,
1:06.6	there are lots of things that you can do to change that reality. And that's what we're going to be
1:10.6	talking about today. So stay tuned for that but first a couple quick housekeeping things first of all
1:17.8	if we aren't friends yet on social media which does count come find me i'm at facebook.com
1:24.9	forward slash dr lisa bobby i would love to connect with you. Whenever I put out a
1:29.5	new podcast or new article, I always put a little notification up there about it on Facebook. And if
1:35.5	we're connected, then you'll get a little link to it right there in your news feed. So that's one way
1:40.4	that we can stay connected. You can also connect with me on Twitter at Dr. Lisa Bobby.
1:46.5	And yeah, also, oh, new free stuff for you. If you want, go to my websites, Growingself.com, or
1:53.8	Dr. Lisa Bobby.com. I have a new happiness class that I've just put up there for you. And I'm so
2:00.1	excited about this.
2:01.5	It's a free class. It's basically like a video that you could watch where I teach you a really
2:08.8	cool technique that I teach just about all of my private practice clients about how to improve
2:16.0	your mood just about instantly. And it works works so well and I've seen it like
2:21.2	seriously change people's lives when they get the hang of this technique and so I'm just so
2:25.8	pleased to be able to offer it to you so go check it out you could just go to my website
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