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The secret to making new friends as an adult (w/ Marisa G. Franco)

How to Be a Better Human

CHAPTER

The Benefits of Friendship

Psychiatrist Harry Staxleben argues that the therapy experience is similar to the chum ship experience in that with your friends, you share things that you feel like you should be ashamed of. We are able to relinquish all of the energies that we spent trying to push this thing away. And so in that way, the experience of experiencing that platonic love from our friends can help us become who we fully are.

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