106. Why It's So Hard to Make Good Friends

The Mindful Healers Podcast with Dr. Jessie Mahoney and Dr. Ni-Cheng Liang

Finding and maintaining deep connections and friendships is challenging for most high-achieving professional women. If you have difficulties making friends, you are not alone.

No matter your age and life stage, it's possible to make new and meaningful connections and friends.

In this episode, we discuss a few common thought errors that make friendships harder to find and navigate. Thoughts about not belonging, time scarcity, fear of rejection, people pleasing, fear of failure, worry about what others think, and high expectations are just a few. Fear of vulnerability, lack of self-acceptance, and our expertise at comparing and despairing also often get in our way.

Listen to the episode to learn tools and strategies that make finding and having friends more easeful. Retreats are a great way to make new friends. The Mindful Healthcare Collective is too.

• Where are friends on your priority list?
• What friends do you already have?
• Are you judging yourself excessively about your friend-making skills?
• What if you allowed and accepted how you show up around others as being more than enough?
• What if you trusted in the process of human connections- letting go of any expectations that you must make new friends or you must be friends with this person, and let things happen naturally?

Join me for private coaching to figure out what is specifically getting in your way and how to change it. 2023 could be a year of friendship.

Join me for small group coaching to enjoy shared experiences, a sense of belonging, and make strong connections with like-minded women.

Join me for a retreat at Sagrada. You will leave happier, healthier, more relaxed, and with a few new beautiful friends.

Join the Mindful Healthcare Collective Facebook group and make new friends - www.mindfulhealthcarecollective.com.

And make friends with both of us, and others, by coming to the Mindful Healers Connect in Nature Retreat July 14-16th, 2023.

*Nothing in this episode should be considered medical advice.