ICYMI: Balancing Friendships When Everyone’s Busy, How Many Hours It Takes To Make A Bestie, And Why Friends Are Good For Your Health, with Dr. Miriam Kirmayer

Feb 5, 2024

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Welcome to today’s ICYMI, where we kick off the week with a quick game-changing tip from one of our guests that you might have missed.

Gather 'round, besties... ahead of Galentines Day, we're talking friendships. If everyone in your bestie group chat is so busy you're planning a month out for your next hang, this one's for you. Our 20s and 30s can feel lonely and isolating AF as all our friends enter different life stages, get hella busy, and move around the world. So if you're feeling some kind of way about the state of your friendships right now, you're not alone.

We actually replace half of our friend group every seven years, so it turns out this is a right of passage. But making friends (and keeping the good ones) is wildly important for our happiness and our health, so we're kicking it back to one of our favourite conversations with psychologist and friendship expert, Dr. Miriam Kirmayer, who reveals why we need to prioritize our friendships, how much time it takes to form friendships, and the commonalities we should look for.

Having spent over a decade researching the science of friendship and helping people live more connected lives, Dr. Miriam is a clinical psychologist, writer, speaker, and leading expert on friendship and social connection. She’s appeared on some of our favourite media outlets, from Call Her Daddy to Vogue and The New York Times.

She sits on the Mental Health Advisory Committee for Wondermind, a media company co-founded by Selena Gomez, and is a member of The GenWell Project, a human connection movement. She also has a private practice and is one of the first and only licensed clinical psychologists to specialize in friendship therapy!

Listen to our full episode with Dr. Miriam here.

Tune in every Monday for an expert dose of life advice in under 10 minutes.

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miriamkirmayer.com

@miriamkirmayer

This show is produced by:

Gillian Berner, Host, Producer & Editor
Olivia Nashmi, Audio Engineer
Kyla Killackey, Digital Editor
Carolyn Schissler , Designer & Web Producer

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