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I'm your host, Josephine Hartman.

I'm an intuitive healer and certified Akashik Records reader and teacher,

driven by the purpose of helping others become more powerful by reconnecting to the healer within.

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Now, on to the episode.

Being in a one-sided friendship can be really triggering.

Always having to be the initiator, the one who invites or organizes or reaches out or makes an effort,

that can be triggering too, and frankly, quite exhausting. Today we're diving into the issue of

one-sided friendships in response to a listener email. First, I want to acknowledge and thank

this longtime listener of the podcast

for writing in. I so appreciate their feedback and willingness to share this trigger with me

and with all of us. For the sake of privacy and to avoid any hurt feelings, I'll be keeping

this listener anonymous. So this person wrote in about the experience

of having a friend constantly dump their stuff on you, and then you end up feeling exhausted and

used. But then when you need their support, they don't give you their full attention back. Instead,

they multitask. So specifically,

this listener shared that the friend in question would do things like glance at her phone

to see if she had gotten any notifications or turned around or started putting things away

if they were meeting in person or preparing food

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