The Psychology of your 20s 369. Answering your biggest 20s dilemmas ft. the listeners
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Dec 29, 2025 Listeners share their biggest dilemmas in their 20s, and expert advice flows! Discover how to end friendships gracefully and rebuild social connections after moving. Learn strategies for regaining your identity post-breakup and how to handle mean people with empathy. Jemma provides tools for navigating late-20s confusion, tackling family guilt, and understanding personal choices in new cities. Tune in for practical wisdom as you tackle the challenges of this transformative decade!
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Actively Create New Friendships
- Be the instigator: go to events alone and invite acquaintances to activities to build new friendships.
- Use hobbies, pub nights, and lecture nights to accumulate the ~200 hours needed to deepen acquaintances into friends.
Use Activities To Recover Identity After Breakup
- Hobby your life up: fill your calendar with new activities to process breakup energy and re-discover yourself.
- Reconnect earnestly with old friends and use reading/podcasts to gain perspective during recovery.
Mean Behavior Reflects The Hater, Not You
- Cruelty often reflects the attacker more than the target, so empathy reduces its power over you.
- Extract any useful criticism, discard the rest, and protect your peace (block if needed).