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Websites
Blogs About Friendship
- Shasta Nelson | Blog — Shasta Nelson: author of Frientimacy and Friendships Don’t Just Happen, Ted presenter, keynote speaker, and friendship expert. Nelson has written hundreds of blog posts over the years on everything from ways to make gatherings more meaningful to why our circle of friends disappears.
- Vivek Murthy | Blog — Former Surgeon general of the United States and Author of Together, Dr. Vivek Murthy explores loneliness and its causes and cures in his blog posts.
- Kat Vellos | We Should Get Together | Blog — Kat Vellos, author of We Should Get Together and Connected from Afar: A Guide for Staying Close When You’re Far Away. Vellos is a former user experience designer and has turned that expertise towards combating the loneliness epidemic, by helping millions of people experience greater fulfillment in life through the cultivation of thriving platonic relationships.
- Friend or Foe | Psychology Today — A Psychology Today sponsored blog that looks into the pitfalls and rewards of 21st-century friendships.
- The Friendship Blog — Advice for navigating friendship at every stage of life
- LifeHacker | Friendship — The best friendship tips, tricks, and hacks from Lifehacker. Lifehacker is an award-winning blog that offers tips, shortcuts, and downloads that help make life and work more efficient
- thought catalog | Friendship — Articles covering Friendship from Thought Catalog, a digital youth culture magazine dedicated to sharing your ideas and stories.
- Good News Network | Friendship — Stories and images of friendship from around the globe will make you feel uplifted, optimistic, and positive about life. The Good News Network delivers stories of hope to inspire millions of people worldwide.
- Her Way – friends & family Archives — Articles on friendship from Her way, a platform designed to help millennial females build self-esteem and to strengthen their family and friendship bonds.
Improve Your Social Skills
- Improve Your Social Skills — A comprehensive, practical guide to social skills. It contains a treasure trove of free social skills training, as well as premium books and courses to help you gain mastery.
- reddit.com/r/socialskills/ — Ever felt like you are the only one who struggles with social awkwardness? Read posts by others about struggling with, working on, and overcoming awkwardness, or write your own questions for the community to answer.
- Become More Compelling — Tips and tricks for charisma and mastering social skills.
Resources for Meeting New People — See the MEGALIST
Additional Websites
- Blue Zones—Live Longer, Better — The science behind Blue Zones: areas in the world where on average, people live longer, happier lives. How can you live the blue zone way?
- Find Your Character Strengths — Everyone has a combination of 24 character strengths. Take the quiz to find out yours to begin your path of strengthening the ones you want.
- Positive Relationships Masterclass© — In this masterclass, you will learn the key principles of relationships that promote human flourishing and gain access to hands-on tools to help your clients discover and invest in social bonds that matter.
- My Best Self 101 — Positive Psychology Strategies to Help you Thrive
- BookClubz — Bookclubz makes organizing a book club simple. Say goodbye to that tangle of emails so you can focus on reading and being together.
Friendship and Beyond
The following websites and blogs are full of articles about friendship (and tons of other topics). Listed are a few recommended articles.
Gottman
A research-based approach to relationships.
Greater Good Magazine
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/
Science-based insights for a meaningful life. Greater Good magazine is published by the Greater Good Science Center (GGSC) at the University of California, Berkeley.
- Why Your Friends Are More Important Than You Think
- Scratch a Happy Adult, Find a Socially Connected…
- Positive Relationships with Sara Algoe
- How Long Does It Take to Make a Friend?
- How Loneliness Changes Across Your Lifetime
- How I Learned to Need People (the Hard Way)
- What Is Your Social Networking Style?
- 36 Questions That Can Help Kids Make Friends
- Is Social Connection the Best Path to Happiness?
- How Friends Help You Regulate Your Emotions
- 10 Pillars of a Strong Relationship
- Make Fast Friends
Eric Barker Blog
Eric Barker, author of Barking Up the Wrong Tree writes a science-based blog about success, adulting, and life.
Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us
An online and print magazine of all things psychology. Full of articles about studies, theories, and self-help. Includes a comprehensive directory of therapists, psychiatrists, and treatment facilities near you.
- 10 Ways to Make (and Keep) Friendships as an Adult
- 11 Surprising Things Good Friendships Do for You
- Why You Underestimate How Much Other People Like You
- 5 Lies About Adult Friendships | Psychology Today,
- How To Make a Good First Impression
- We All Need Some Intimacy in Our Lives
- Can Men and Women Be “Just Friends”?
Happify Daily
https://my.happify.com/public/happify-daily/
A science-based program that helps you improve your mental health. The “Get Inspired” section of the website shares stories and articles from around the world on topics related to happiness.
The Atlantic
American journal of news, literature, and opinion was founded in 1857 and is one of the oldest magazines in the United States.
Asking For a Friend
https://thriveglobal.com/categories/asking-for-a-friend/
Experts answer your toughest relationship questions, from romance and family to work and friendship, in partnership with the Gottman Institute.
NYTIMES
The online version of a prominent US newspaper.
- Adults Guide to Social Skills
- How to Have Closer Friendships (and Why You Need Them)
- Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30?
- How to Deal With a Friendship ‘Quiet Season’
- We Don’t Just Need to Connect — We Need to Reconnect
- How to Make Friends
- How to Meet New People, Even at a Distance
- There’s Community and Consensus. But It’s No Commune.
- Do We Even Need Friends, After the Pandemic?
- Making New Friends During a Pandemic
Wait but Why
A long-form, stick-figure-illustrated blog about almost everything.
Medium
An open platform for writing and reading. Anyone can write for medium about anything.
- You Are The Average Of The Five People You Spend The Most Time With
- You’re NOT The Average Of The Five People You Surround Yourself With
- Good Social Relationships Are The Most Consistent Predictor of a Happy Life
- What does “community” even mean? A definition attempt & conversation starter
- People Quickly Judge You Based on Trust And Respect When They First Meet You
- How to Talk to Anyone – Forge
- How Do You Know When to Let Go Of a Friendship?
- Why You Can’t “Just Be Friends” with Someone You Love
- Together Institute – Medium
- Being Authentic is the Easiest Way to Make True Friends
The Marginalian / Brain Pickings
https://www.themarginalian.org/
A weekly blog about exploring what it means to live a decent, inspired, substantive life of purpose and gladness using inspiration from poetry, literature, and more.
- Reclaiming Friendship: A Visual Taxonomy of Platonic Relationships to Counter the Commodification of the Word “Friend”
- The Lion and the Bird: A Tender Illustrated Story About Loneliness, Loyalty, and the Gift of Friendship
- Kahlil Gibran on Friendship and the Building Blocks of Meaningful Connection
- Over the Rooftops, Under the Moon: A Lyrical Illustrated Meditation on Loneliness, Otherness, and the Joy of Finding One’s Community
- The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
- I Like You: An Almost Unbearably Lovely Vintage Illustrated Ode to Friendship
- Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on the Deeper Meanings of Friendship, Love, and Heartbreak
- The Difficult Balance of Intimacy and IndependenceSimone Weil on the Paradox of Friendship and Separation
Apps
Friend “Dating”
Bumble BFF
Friendship “dating” app.
Google | Apple
Making Authentic Friendships
This web-based application helps individuals with special needs (age 13+) find friends at home or on the go, based on their geolocation, diagnosis, age, and interests.
Google | Apple
Events and Happenings
LivingSocial
Similar to Groupon–find deals on classes and events near you.
Google | Apple
EventBrite
Discover and create events.
Google | Apple
Special Interest
Facebook Groups
Discover all the groups people have created on Facebook, or start your own group.
Google | Apple
SweatCity
Find workout buddies in your area.
Apple
Ways to Communicate and Connect
Dex
In today’s digital age, it’s easy to lose touch. But whether your friends from home, business school classmates or former coworkers, relationships matter. Dex is the best way to manage your relationships. We’re building a 21st-century rolodex that’s powerful, accessible, and a pleasure to use.
Monaru
Monaru is an app that makes it easy for you to keep on top of your most important relationships. Offering a tailored schedule of suggestions and reminders for things that you can do with those most important to you, or ways in which you can keep up with each other.
Monica
Can you remember the names of the children of all your friends? Can you remember the wedding anniversary of your brother? Can you tell the last time you called your grandmother and what you talked about? Monica lets you quickly and easily log all that information so you can be a better friend, family member, or spouse.
Podcasts
The Science of Friendship
Doctors and psychologists speak about the science of friendship and why it is important to our health.
The Science of Happiness — Dacher Keltner
Episode 75: A Cure for Loneliness
Learn research-tested strategies for a happier, more meaningful life, drawing on the science of compassion, gratitude, mindfulness, and awe. In Episode 75, former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy learns why focusing on the quality of our relationships, not the quantity, can be an antidote.
Podcast Website | Apple | Stitcher | Spotify
Ultimate Health Podcast — Dr. Jesse Chappus
Episode 171: Intentional Friendships
Dr. Jesse Chappus has in-depth conversations with health and wellness leaders from around the world. In Episode 171, Marni Wasserman joins him to discuss friendship and how to evaluate those around you to build more intentional relationships.
Podcast Website | Apple | Stitcher | Spotify
The Art of Relationships Podcast — Dr. Chris Grace and Dr. Tim Muehlhoff
Nov. 2017 “The Signs of a Healthy Friendship”
Chris Grace, Ph.D., and Tim Muehlhoff, Ph.D., discuss how to build healthy relationships and marriages. In this podcast, Tim (professor of communication at Biola University and author of I Beg to Differ) and Chris (director of Biola University Center for Marriage and Relationships and professor of psychology at Biola University) weigh in on how to navigate the complexities of relationships in our culture with biblical wisdom and scholarly research. Listen to get practical insights on relationships, dating and marriage that can be applied to all relationships – family, friends, co-workers and others.
Podcast Website | Apple | Stitcher | Spotify
The Psychology Podcast — Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman
June 2021: Noreena Hertz | How to Restore Human Connection
Noreena Hertz is a renowned thought leader, academic, and broadcaster, named by The Observer “one of the world’s leading thinkers” and by Vogue “one of the world’s most inspiring women.” Topics include: The impact of technology on our social lives, The importance of local communities, “The loneliness economy”, and more.
Answering Questions and Sharing Stories About Friendship
Friendshipping Podcast — Jenn and Trinn
How do I quit feeling so jealous of successful friends? Can I befriend my ex? Should I ask my coworker why she unfollowed me on Twitter? Every week Jenn & Trin answer your questions about friendship! We try to advise on the tricky stuff that’s making you feel weird.
Podcast Website | Apple | Spotify
Best Forevers | A Podcast for Kindred Spirits —Alysa Lucas
A Podcast for Kindred Spirits with the goal of starting a movement to love more on our best friends, bros, and bosom buddies through sharing stories of friendship and talking about the most important topics to keeping those friendships afloat.
Podcast Website | Apple | Stitcher | Spotify
NPR | Life Kit — Julia Furlan
2 episodes from August 2019: Make New Friends (and Keep Them) and When Friendship Changes, How To Cope
The act of making and being a friend is as simple as it is difficult. We spoke with experts to help find ways to make new friends, as well as to take better care of the friendships you already have.
Friends Talking About Stuff
Listen to real-life friends talk about their relationships, work, and life.
Call Your Girlfriend Podcast — Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow
Every week, Aminatou and Ann call each other to discuss the intricacies of pop culture and the latest in politics. Since launching in 2014, we’ve built an audience of hundreds of thousands of listeners per episode. We’re highbrow and lowbrow, fiercely opinionated, and not afraid to real-talk each other about everything from menstrual cycles and body shaming to the Cheeto in Chief and workplace drama. We highlight women who are agents, creators, movers, and shakers who have smart, interesting things to say. We also care deeply about the lived experiences of non-famous women who are just trying to get through the week. We’re here for every facet of women’s humanity.
Podcast Website | Apple | Stitcher | Spotify
Better Friendship Through Podcasting —Adam Ellis and Kristin Rossi
Adam Ellis and Kristin Rossi are friends. They work together, but not in the same department. Since they don’t see each other that much, they hang out after work sometimes, get drunk, and catch up. For this podcast, they set a topic each week and ask each other questions based on that topic. It’s better friendship through podcasting.
Podcast Website | Apple |Spotify
For the Love Podcast —Jen Hatmaker
Season 1: For the Love of Girlfriends
“For the love” of…People. Home. Stories. Shoes. Family. Jesus. Community. TV. Travel. Food. Culture. The hilarious best-selling author and star of HGTV’s “My Big Family Renovation” invites you to drop by and catch up with her friends as they laugh and chat about all the things we love. Season 1 explores the love of friends who stick by through thick and thin.
Podcast Website | Apple | Stitcher |Spotify
Friendshipping Forecast —Lily and Charlotte
Join Lily and Charlotte’s long distance podcast as they talk about friendship, existence and other friendship ephemera. (Only 3 episodes)
Best Friends with Nicole Byer and Sasheer Zamata —Nicole Byer and Sasheer Zamata
Gayle & Oprah. Bonnie & Clyde. Nicole & Sasheer. Enter the pantheon of best friendship. When you’re forced to change your number, are sick of being single, or want to take a pole-dancing class, you’re going to need a best friend…and if you don’t, you can still have this podcast.
Podcast Website | Apple | Stitcher | Spotify
The Friendship Podcast —CJ and BK
Two friends doing what they do.
Podcast Website | Apple | Stitcher | Spotify
Male Specific
Masculine Vulnerability— Ashe Owen
7 Episodes full of compelling stories and discussions exploring the power of vulnerability and the impact it can have on men’s lives.
The Art of Manliness— Brett McKay
Episode #274: Build Your Band of Brothers
Stephen Mansfield and McKay discuss the bleak statistics on male friendship, the myth of the lone alpha male, and why making friends in adulthood is so hard for men today. They discuss what a “band of brothers” is, why men’s accountability groups usually fail, and how a close-knit group of friends can help make you a better man. They end the discussion by delving into exactly what you need to do to develop a band of brothers and what to do when you get together.
Podcast Website | Apple | Stitcher | Spotify
NPR | Hidden Brain— Shankar Vedantam
The Lonely American Man
Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. In this episode, he interviews men and psychologists and examines and explains how being too “masculine” affects loneliness.
NPR | Apple | Stitcher | Spotify
NPR | Life Kit— Julia Furlan
August 2019: How Men Can Have Better Friendships
The typical definition of masculinity is the polar opposite of what makes strong friendships. In this episode, we talk to men about their struggles with friendship and looking for answers with some celebrity experts.
Additional Podcasts
Chief Best Friends —Niki Torres
This is not a typical podcast on entrepreneurship. It’s a podcast to figure out business success while cultivating meaningful friendships. How can we mix the personal and the professional? What does it mean to be champions to one another? Why do we need genuine allies? Hosted by Niki Torres, she brings women’s stories of breaking glass and bamboo ceilings, of navigating life changes and careers, and of the emotional rollercoaster that is startup life. Chief Best Friends is about work wives and work besties everywhere.
Podcast Website | Apple | Stitcher | Spotify
The Art of Friendship —Kim Wier
The Art of Friendship podcast will help you fulfill your God-given friend-longing, improve existing relationships, and invest in others longing to connect. With humor, honesty and transparency, Kim guides the conversation with friends and experts to help you discover how life-changing and life-giving friendships can be yours.
Podcast Website | Apple | Stitcher | Spotify
Together Apart —Priya Parker
Together Apart is part guide, part reminder of the resiliency of the human spirit to still creatively meaningfully gather, even while we have to be apart. The show is hosted by Priya Parker, a conflict facilitator whose expertise is in how we gather.
Podcast Website | Apple | Stitcher | Spotify
Therapy for Black Girls — Dr. Joy Harden Bradford
Session 118: Making Friends as an Adult
Guest Dr. Marisa Franco shares research that goes deeper into what makes friendship thrive. Tips about the most important aspects of making friends, the characteristics of a good friend, and what’s needed to really sustain friendships.
Podcast Website | Apple | Stitcher | Spotify
The Good Life Podcast— Jonathan Fields
Kate Johnson | Radical Friendship
Kate Johnson teaches classes and retreats integrating Buddhist meditation, somatics, social justice, and creativity at leading meditation centers, universities and cultural institutions around the country. She also works as a culture change consultant, partnering with organizations to help them achieve greater diversity and sustainability. Her moving new book, Radical Friendship, makes a case for friendship – grounded in Buddha’s teaching – as a radical practice of love, courage, and trust, offering seven strategies that pave the way for profound social change.
Games
Online
3-8 players
Jackbox has released many party games, all played online via a gaming console, app, or smart TV. Players use the web browser on their phones and enter a unique code to join the game. The benefit of it being online is that people can play remotely and players do not need to be in the same room to play.
4 – 15 players
Play online or via local WiFi as you attempt to prepare your spaceship for departure, but beware as one or more random players among the Crew are Impostors bent on killing everyone!
5-10 players
Secret Hitler is a board game also available online! A dramatic game of political intrigue and betrayal set in 1930’s Germany. Players are secretly divided into two teams – liberals and fascists. Known only to each other, the fascists coordinate to sow distrust and install their cold-blooded leader. The liberals must find and stop the Secret Hitler before it is too late.
In-Person
2 – 5 players
A Kitty-Powered Russian Roulette Card Game – The hit party game for family and friends who are into kittens and explosions and laser beams and sometimes goats.
4 – 20+
Cards Against Humanity is a party game for horrible people. The game is simple. Each round, one player asks a question from a black card, and everyone else answers with their funniest white card.
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
2-4 players
You’re alone in a room with a bomb. Your friends have the info you need to defuse it. But there’s a catch. They can’t see the bomb. So everyone will need to talk it out–fast! This game also has capabilities to be played remotely.
3-4 players (more with expansion packs)
Your adventurous settlers seek to tame the remote but rich isle of Catan. Start by revealing Catan’s many harbors and regions: Pastures, fields, mountains, hills, forests, and desert. The random mix creates a different board virtually every game. Skills – Clever trading, strategy, tactical skill, luck.
4 – 12 players
The game with inspiration, heart & hilarity
SPARKED is an addictively fun game that celebrates and elevates everyone. It’s a Game Changer! From soulful conversations to juicy surprises and laugh-until-you-cry moments, you never know what will be SPARKED! SPARKED delivers rich, memorable experiences every time you play.
4-10 players
Players team up, create secret signals, and try to collect the most crabs.
2 – 5 players
Build your tracks across the United States in this fast-paced and strategic board game. Connect iconic North American cities across a map of the 20th-century USA and build your train routes to earn points.
4-6 players
What happens when you combine hundreds of fun, creative questions with personal answers, simple rules and hilarious gameplay? Start playing Loaded Questions and find out! This is the newest version of our bestselling Loaded Questions game, which has sold more than 2,000,000+ copies.
The Friendship Game | A Game to Get the Best Out of Friendship
3-6 players
This is a game designed to get the very best out of our friendships. Played on a board with dice and cards, it invites us to ask one another a series of kind but searching questions about our lives. The more honestly and clearly we answer, the faster we advance around the board. The winner of the game is the person who has best demonstrated that bedrock of true friendship: the capacity for sincere, kindly self-disclosure. The game is guaranteed to bring out new facets of our friends and will allow for a series of fascinating moments of revelation and mutual discovery.
Authentic Relating practices create a safe, intentional space – rooted in play and supported by clear boundaries – to create meaningful and enjoyable connections to self and other. By learning Authentic Relating skills, you can drop your conditioned relational habits, and learn to relate with yourself and others from a deeper more authentic expression of your truth.
2-6 players
A bluffing game where you need to lie, deceive, and destroy the influence of your rivals to be the last one standing.
3 – 6 players
Tile by tile, terror by terror, build your own haunted mansion – and then try to escape it alive. With 50 blood-curdling scenarios, each trip to the house on the hill promises fresh horrors. Players must work together to survive the nightmare. Except for 1 player who becomes the traitor.
2-8+ players
Codenames is a social word game with a simple premise and challenging game play. Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their codenames. The teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first.
2-8+ players
Codenames is a social word game with a simple premise and challenging game play. Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their codenames. The teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first.
Printable Conversation Cards Incorporate more love, forgiveness, and compassion into your daily life with these conversation starters.
Where Should We Begin – A Game of Stories
Designed for partners, dates, or friends, Where Should We Begin? is many games at once. The rules are tailored to the many situations you might find yourself in, and to different types of groups. Just as an amazing connection is about sharing, listening, risk, laughter, and discovery, so too is a great game. Let the Prompt Cards guide you and the Story Cards inspire you to share the stories you rarely tell.
Quizzes
The best quiz you can take on Friendship is in our Assessment Center. Testing your Friendship factor will measure 12 subfactors, and you’ll have access to 50 other factors and hundreds of subfactors. Go check it out!
Science-Based
A bank of quizzes on various subjects from Psychology Today. Are you outgoing or introverted? Do you have a high traditional IQ or emotional IQ? Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? Find the answers to these questions and more with Psychology Today.
In relationships, are you a giver, taker, or matcher?
Social Capital Quiz | Greater Good
Based on a scale developed by Dmitri Williams, a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, it measures the amount—and the sources—of social capital in your life, zeroing in on online vs. offline capital.
Supportive Relationships Questionnaire
My Best Life 101 is a website dedicated to the science and personal application of the “greatest hits” of positive psychology and mindfulness practices. Throughout the site are helpful questionnaires to self-evaluate different aspects of your well-being.
Just for Fun
People
John Cacioppo
University of Chicago professor known as the “scientist of loneliness.” Co-founded the field of social neuroscience and founded the University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience. He conducted studies that looked at the effects of social isolation on health. He Co- Wrote the book Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection.
Julianne Holt-Lunstad
Professor Holt-Lunstad’s program of research examines the influence of both the quantity and quality of social relationships on long-term health and risk for mortality, and the biological pathways.
Dr. Vivek Murthy, M.D.
Physician and former vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps who served as the nineteenth Surgeon General of the United States. He was the first Surgeon General of Indian descent. While in office, he worked to tackle the worst public health problems in the U.S. After leaving office, he turned his focus to the loneliness epidemic, speaking out about how many patients he saw in his career who suffered from loneliness. In his book, Together, he aims to reduce loneliness in the United States.
Vivek Murthy | US Surgeon General | Together Book | United States
Shasta Nelson
Shasta Nelson is a keynote speaker, author, and leading expert on friendship and healthy relationships at work. Filled with scientific data, real-world research, and fascinating case studies, Shasta’s programs reveal how healthy relationships at work directly impact employee engagement, team culture, sales, recruiting, and retention. She also teaches strategies for the healthiest friendships, contributing to individual happiness and well-being. Her Three Relationship Requirements have been featured in her popular TEDx talk and are widely praised for helping break down relationships in ways everyone understands.
Priya Parker
Parker has spent 15 years helping leaders and communities have complicated conversations about community and identity and vision at moments of transition. Trained in the field of conflict resolution, Parker has worked on race relations on American college campuses and on peace processes in the Arab world, southern Africa, and India.
3 steps to turn everyday get-togethers into transformative gatherings
Robin Dunbar
Dunbar is a British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist and a specialist in primate behaviour. He is currently head of the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. He is best known for formulating Dunbar’s number, a measurement of the cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships.
Robin Dunbar — Department of Experimental Psychology
TEDxObserver – Robin Dunbar – Can the internet buy you more friends?
Robin Dunbar: What three-sided football tells us about friendship
Books:
Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks
Related Sections of A Meaning of Life
Interpersonal Skills
One of the best ways to connect with someone else, help your friend feel seen and safe, and to get to know someone new is to LISTEN.
Intrapersonal Skills
Further exploration into self-love can better equip you to love yourself first.
Discovery
Love languages can tell us about how we like to give and receive love, which can give us insight into how we behave in relationships, including friendships.
The overarching model on the site for communicating with yourself and others.
Self-acceptance takes self-love a bit further with accepting yourself for the way you are and finding peace within your stories.
Discovery through socialization can show us why we behave in certain ways with friends. What do you dislike in others and how do these attributes appear in you? What do you admire about others and how do you demonstrate those qualities?
When we approach friends with compassion and understanding, we can build deeper connections that are genuine and supportive.
The framework of YSL shows up all over the site, so explore the YSL section to get a better handle on the framework and your foundational stories.
The Explore page serves as a jumping-off point to an exploration of the world around you. An essential component of discovery is the point-blank action of exploring the world outside of introspective discoveries.
In making agreements and requests with friends, it helps to be intentional.
Taking responsibility for your own actions, behaviors, feelings, and thoughts can help you understand the way you relate to the world and people around you.
Strong and fulfilling relationships are one of the primary ingredients for well-being.
Expressing gratitude to friends is one way to affirm your friend’s actions and build trust and positivity.
Taking responsibility for your own actions, behaviors, feelings, and thoughts can help you understand the way you relate to the world and people around you.
Play builds positivity in relationships and helps create meaningful memories and builds experiential intimacy.