Session 277: Cultivating Friendships In Adulthood
Therapy for Black Girls
iHeartPodcasts and Joy Harden Bradford, Ph.D.
4.8 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The Therapy for Black Girls Podcast is a weekly conversation with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed Psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia, about all things mental health, personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions of ourselves.
Whether you’re looking to make new friends, maintaining an existing friendship, or wanting to remove yourself from a friend group all together, the process of cultivating healthy friendships is a lesson often overlooked in our textbooks and general life skills. But, why is that? When having and being a friend is a core aspect of so many of our adult lives.
This week, Psychologist, friendship expert, and NY Times Best Selling Author Dr. Marisa G. Franco joins us again to discuss her new book, Platonic, How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make And Keep Friends. Our conversation explores how avoiding conflict is not helping your friendships, how your attachment style is showing up in your platonic relationships, the difference between dependency and friendship, and how to break up with a friend amicably.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Therapy for Black Girls Podcast, a weekly conversation about mental health, |
| 0:16.9 | personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions |
| 0:22.2 | of ourselves. |
| 0:23.2 | I'm your host, Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 0:29.9 | For more information or to find a therapist in your area, visit our website at therapyforblackgirls.com. |
| 0:38.4 | While I hope you love listening to and learning from the podcast, it is not meant to be a substitute |
| 0:45.0 | for a relationship with a licensed mental health professional. |
| 0:48.6 | Hey y'all! |
| 0:57.0 | Thanks so much for joining me for session 277 of the Therapy for Black Girls Podcast. |
| 1:02.1 | We'll get into our conversation right after we're worried for our sponsors. |
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| 2:19.6 | science-based strategies to help us live happier, more joyful lives. |
| 2:23.8 | In the next season of the Happiness Lab, we'll explore how to make friends, |
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