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Category Archives: Research
Your Brain on Friendships
On CBS Sunday Morning, a news magazine program, they ran an awesome story this last weekend about the health benefits of friendship.(Watch the clip here, if interested.) In the segment on CBS, they showed two of these recent studies– one … Continue reading
Posted in Exercise & Yoga, Health, How To?, Research
Tagged backpack study, brain scans, CBS Sunday Morning, Dr. Dennis Proffitt, Dr. James Coan, friendship studies, health, neuroscience, research, social relationships, steepness of hill, stressors, University of Virgina, ways to reduce stress
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The Impact of Self-Esteem on Friendship
When it comes to self-esteem and friendship, there is no end to the correlations that are so frequently made. People with more friends have higher self-esteem, and people with high self-esteem seem to have an easier time making friends– the … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Movies, Difficulty & Challenges, How To?, Loneliness, Making Friends, Personal Growth/Spirituality, Research
Tagged book, Christine Arylo, connection between, Facebook study, Friendship, hate meeting people, low self esteem, Madly in Love With Me, Making Friends, negative people, nervous, pessimistic, scared to make friends, self awareness, self love, Self-esteem
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Vulnerability, Weight, Nudity, and Judgment
I’ve been thinking about bodies, weight, and insecurities a lot lately. I was somewhat shocked when my last blog post (“The Judgment of Weight”) skyrocketed to first place as the most read blog on this site. In hindsight, I shouldn’t … Continue reading
The Judgment of Weight
There are two things I will not board a plane without: a new magazine purchased at the airport and a purse filled with snacks. The snacks are self-explanatory in a day and age where one can get stuck on a … Continue reading
Posted in Difficulty & Challenges, Judging Others, Our Mistakes, Personal Growth/Spirituality, Research, Social Causes
Tagged Acceptance, chubby fairy, fat, fat studies, Friendship, Glamour, heavy, judgment, learning to accept, magazine, overweight, personal growth, prejudice, skinny, skinny witch, stereotype, stop judging, weight
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Race and Friendship
Anderson Cooper is highlighting results all week on his CNN AC360 show about kids and race in America. As adults it’s sometimes harder to gauge prejudice and racism since we are trained to be politically correct and don’t want to … Continue reading
Posted in Difficulty & Challenges, Judging Others, Research, Social Causes, Types of Friends
Tagged AC360, all my friends are the same, Anderson Cooper, black friends, black kids are more optimistic than whites, CNN, diversity in friendships, how to teach kids about race, inter-racial dating, Kids on Race, parenting, racial distrust, racial diveristy, similarity in friendships, the more diverse the schhol the more homogenous our friends, value of diverse schools, wedding party photos and diversity, white friends
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Why Doesn’t Friendship Sell?
I just returned home from a publicity trip in New York City last week where I zig-zagged across Manhattan pitching friendship stories to any magazine editor who would listen to me. Sex Still Sells. Even to Women. Regardless of the … Continue reading
Breast Cancer & Friendship
“Slow down! Don’t do it alone!” the stranger said to me as he passed me on my morning jog. I tried to force a polite smile, but what I really thought was: “What kind of a guy has the audacity … Continue reading
Posted in Exercise & Yoga, Health, Loneliness, Research, Social Causes
Tagged 3 day race for the cure, 3000 nurses with breast cancer, breast cancer and loneliness, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, don't do it alone, Loneliness, October, pink, Pink Ribbon, power of friendship, research, risk of breast cancer, Save the ta-tas. savethetatas.com
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3 Baby-Steps Toward Girl Effect’s Dream of Changing the World
I still remember my jaw dropping open a couple of years ago after hearing the New York Times human rights columnist, Nicholas Kristof make a historical comparison, when he was promoting his book “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Movies, Jealousy & Competition, Judging Others, Politics, Research, Social Causes
Tagged Blogging Campaign, body image, body issuesKatie Couric, developing world, equality, feminism, friend, Girl Effect, girls education, Half the Sky, jealous, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, likeable, media, Miss Representation, Nicholas Kristof, Powerful, Tara Sophia Mohr
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6 Books to Help Your Friendships
I often quote the research from BYU that revealed just how important friendships are to our health. The sentiment of the research didn’t surprise me at all, but what they compared it to sure did! After compiling extensive relational studies, … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Movies, Defining Friendship, Maintaining Friends, Making Friends, Research
Tagged A Return to Love, Andrea Bonior, Best Friends Forever, BFF, books, Breaking Up WIth Your Best Friend, choose friends, Consequential Strangers, curriculum, Find Your Strongest Life, Friendship, Friendship Fix, health, how to, Irene Levine, keep friends, Make Friends, Marcus Buckingham, Marianne Williamson, meet friends, Melinda Blau, MWF Seeking BFF, Paul Dobransky, Rachel Bertsche, relationships, teaching, The Power of Female Freindship, training
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Friendship Challenges that Come With Age
Someday when I’m ninety I look forward to making a comparison of what it was like making new friends in each decade, in different life stages. Until I have personal experience that only comes with more birthdays, I can only … Continue reading
Posted in Difficulty & Challenges, Health, Life Stages, Making Friends, Research
Tagged Age, Baby Boomers, Challenges, Dr. Jacqueline Olds, Fifties, Forties, Friendship, Generation, Making Friends, New York Times, obstacles, Thirties, Twenties
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