Friendship Has Helped My Mental Health More Than Spending All Day

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.

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