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Aug 2023
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Navigating Friendship Growing Pains and ...

ALLISON WETIG AND CEARA KIRKPATRICK
About this episode

You’re either growing together or you’re growing apart. If you want deep, authentic friendships - growing pains are inevitable. We know you don’t just want to be acquaintances with everyone and flee when the going gets tough so today we unpack why growing pains happen, how to navigate these pressure points and how to repair the situation so you can move forward. 

This was an eye opening self-reflection topic for us as well as we were having a lot of real-time realizations as we were talking it out. We hope this helps you understand, nurture and heal some of the relationships in your current life or somewhere in the future!


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