Thank you for joining us for episode 557 of Live Happy Now.

As we continue to observe International Friendship Month, we here at Live Happy are also celebrating Make a Friend Day on February 11th.

And this week's guest is here to tell us how to do it.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps,

and today I'm joined by author and therapist Anna Runkle, whose book Connectability is all about

how to build and sustain deep and genuine friendships. But to do that, we have to find the right

people. And in this episode, Anna explains how we can do that and offers tips and practices to make it easier and more effective.

Let's have a listen.

Anna, thank you for coming back on Live Happy Now.

Thank you, Paula.

I'm happy to be here.

February is Friendship Month.

And, of course, you are a friendship expert.

So it's a great time to talk to you.

And I specifically wanted to talk to you because in your

book, Connectability, you devote an entire chapter to finding your people. And to me, that says that

finding friends as adults is not as simple as we think it should be. So let's start with there.

Why is it difficult to find our people after adulthood?

Well, I think it's hard for some people more than others.

That can have a lot to do with what your background is and whether you're introverted

and whether you've had trauma.

But there's something about the last, you know, ever since the pandemic that a lot of people are

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