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179. How to Fix Our Loneliness with Dr. Marisa G. Franco
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179. How to Fix Our Loneliness with Dr. Marisa G. Franco

1. How your attachment style determines how you make – or don’t make – friends and becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
2. How Dr. Franco’s work helped Glennon make healthy adult friendships over the past year.
3. Why we’re lonelier than ever – and how that loneliness can make us sick.
4. Why platonic friendships are beneficial to the health of our romantic partnerships. 
5. Learning to “trust the spark” when you meet a potential friend – and concrete steps to foster new friendship. 

About Dr. Franco:
Dr. Marisa G Franco is psychologist, international speaker, and New York Times bestselling author known for digesting and communicating science in ways tha change their lives. She works as a professor at The University of Maryland and authored the New York Times bestseller Platonic: How The Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends.
TW: @DrMarisaGFranco
IG: @drmarisagfranco

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