We can also expand communication by sharing what we need from each other, discussing new subjects, learning how to ask questions and listen well, being curious about each other’s pasts, and sometimes engaging in expansive topics far bigger than our circumstances and updates, like politics, spirituality, dreams, or ideas.
Shasta Nelson • Frientimacy: How to Deepen Friendships for Lifelong Health and Happiness
A friendly neighborhood doesn’t just magically happen. It’s created through the daily actions of each person who lives there, interacting with every other person.
Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships

First off you gotta learn to listen to your senses and your body — esp gut and heart rate, which can help you understand how you *actually* feel about any situation. I think a lot of people are numb, disembodied, so they find it too frictionless to talk themselves into a life they hate and out of one that fulfills them bc they can’t tell what’s act... See more
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