What if we were taught how to make friends?
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You're about to walk into a room of strangers. Your shoulders are at your ears. You've already invented three reasons to leave. And the only social scripts you have are from a playground in 1994 or a networking event in 2019.
In this episode Caitlin and Chantelle get into one of the most anxiety-producing and least-discussed parts of adult life: how to actually connect with people. Not theoretically. In the room. Before the room. And in the spiral that happens after.
They get into the specific kind of loneliness that doesn't look like loneliness — the one that lives inside a full life, a full social calendar, a room full of people. What's really happening when connection feels hard. And what has to be true for you to show up as your favourite self anywhere.
There is an awkward wave at strangers in a park. A person in Lisbon who asked for an Instagram and didn't press follow. And a genuinely useful distinction between a connection that just was, and a story you're telling yourself about why it wasn't.
Connection is a practice. This episode is where the practice starts.
What's your barista's name? Find out tomorrow and report back.
We go wherever connection lives.
If anything in this episode stirs something big, please bring it to a friend, a therapist, or someone who loves you.
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