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EPISODE · Jul 8, 2025 · 31 MIN

How to Make (and Keep!) Friends as an Adult with Kristen Strong- Episode 44

from The Bitter and The Sweet Podcast · host Kayla M. Cook

We are going all in today on one of our most requested topics by listeners: friendship! Here to help us navigate this important conversation is a new friend of mine, Kristen Strong.  Kristen is a wife, mom of three, contributor at (in)courage, and author of multiple books, including her latest, Desperate Woman Seeks Friends: Real Talk about Connection, Rejection, and Trying Again for the Friendships You Need. Join Kristen and I as we talk about:  the challenges of making friends as an adult loneliness and what it is doing to our health the importance of vulnerability and boundaries in friendship managing our expectations of our friends navigating friendship breakups why rejection is not always about you I hope this conversation encourages you and helps you remember that while friendship is not always easy- especially as an adult- it is worth it!   Connect with Kristen on Instagram Get your copy of Kristen's latest book, Desperate Woman Seeks Friends: Real Talk about Connection, Rejection, and Trying Again for the Friendships You Need Connect with Kayla on Instagram Connect with the show on Instagram

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