179. How to Fix Our Loneliness with Dr. Marisa G. Franco
1. How your attachment style determines how you make – or don’t make – friends and becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.2. How Dr. Franco’s work helped Glennon make healthy adult friendships over the past year.3. Why we’re lonelier than ever – and how that loneliness can make us sick.4. Why platonic friendships are beneficial to the health of our romantic partnerships. 5. Learning to “trust the spark” when you meet a potential friend – and concrete steps to foster new friendship. About Dr. Franco:Dr. Marisa G Franco is psychologist, international speaker, and New York Times bestselling author known for digesting and communicating science in ways tha change their lives. She works as a professor at The University of Maryland and authored the New York Times bestseller Platonic: How The Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends.TW: @DrMarisaGFrancoIG: @drmarisagfranco
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I’m Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed, the book that was released at the very start of the pandemic and became a lifeline for millions. I watched in awe from my home while this simple phrase from Untamed – WE CAN DO HARD THINGS – the mantra that saved my life twenty years ago, became a worldwide rally cry.Life is freaking hard. We are all doing hard things every day – we love and lose; we forge and end friendships; battle addiction, illness, and loneliness; care for children and parents; struggle in our jobs, our marriages, our divorces; we try to set and hold boundaries – and we fight for equality, purpose, joy, and peace right in the midst of all the hard.On We Can Do Hard Things, my wife Abby Wambach, my sister Amanda Doyle, and I do the only thing that has ever made life easier: We talk honestly about the hard. We laugh and cry and help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, free-er, less alone.