How to Overcome Loneliness through Platonic Friendships with Marisa Franco
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Marisa Franco shares how to overcome loneliness through platonic friendships. Through her work and personal experience, she discovered the importance and power of platonic love, challenging societal assumptions about the hierarchy of relationships. Delving into the historical roots of platonic love, she explores the transformative impact of friendship in navigating loneliness and the need to reevaluate cultural norms surrounding love and companionship.
In this episode, you will be able to:
- Discover the key to overcoming loneliness through the power of friendship
- Uncover the lesser-known benefits of platonic relationships in your life
- Learn effective strategies for making meaningful adult friendships
- Explore how your attachment style impacts your ability to form and maintain friendships
- Find ways to handle friendship rejection and embrace acceptance for a more fulfilling social life
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| 0:00.0 | Our friends kind of make us feel like whole people because of the ways they invite different parts of ourselves to come out. Welcome to the one you feed. |
| 0:15.0 | Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. |
| 0:21.0 | Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:26.8 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:31.0 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have |
| 0:36.8 | instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:41.3 | But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes |
| 0:45.8 | conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This |
| 0:50.4 | podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, Atlanta was booming with excitement. Back in 96, |
| 1:13.0 | in 96, Atlanta was booming with excitement |
| 1:15.0 | around hosting the Centennial Olympic Games. |
| 1:18.0 | And then, a deranged zealot, willing to kill for a cause, |
| 1:22.0 | lit a fuse that would change my life and so many others, forever. |
| 1:27.0 | Rippling out for generations. |
| 1:30.0 | Listen to Flashpoint on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your |
| 1:36.2 | podcasts. |
| 1:37.2 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:42.0 | Our guest on this episode is Marissa Franco, a psychologist and |
| 1:45.9 | national speaker. She's known for digesting and communicating science in ways that |
| 1:50.5 | resonate deeply enough with people to change their lives. |
| 1:54.0 | Marissa is a professor at the University of Maryland and wrote the New York Times |
| 1:58.0 | best-selling book that is discussed in this interview. |
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