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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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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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