On Our Mind: Friendships and Mental Health

Two Essential Tools for Your ‘Purpose-Full’ Journey

If life is a journey, what can help you stay in alignment with your purpose and facilitate progress toward your goals? This post focuses on two essential tools to make your journey smoother and more enjoyable.
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How to Be a Good Friend

We all know how lovely friendship can be, but we seldom focus properly on what a good friend should actually be like. As a result, we miss out on opportunities to become precisely that sort of friend – and enrich the social lives of all those we meet. Watch – 4 minutes

A Recipe for How to Choose Meaningful Relationships

We cannot change others. Not their values or beliefs, not their way of thinking or communicating, and not how they choose to show up. We can, however, change those with whom we choose to share our lives through self-awareness and intentional boundaries.
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How Much Social Support Is in Your Life?

There are lots of benefits to feeling socially supported. When you have healthy relationships, you feel a stronger sense of purpose and perhaps greater feelings of self-worth—all of which contribute to a more meaningful and fulfilling life. You can find social support in many settings such as your family, friends, or that special someone in your life.
Take the Assessment – 5 minutes

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don’t talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul. An inspiring and entertaining testament to the power of society’s most under-appreciated relationship, Big Friendship will invite you to think about how your own bonds are formed, challenged, and preserved.
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What About Your Friends?

We know that romantic and familial relationships are work — and we tend to respect the time it takes to maintain healthy relationships with our partners and our siblings and our parents. But…what about your friends?
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