Recently,  we’ve been discussing relationships, and not just the romantic kind. A lot of these conversations relate to loneliness and loss of connection with friends during new seasons of life. 

You might feel shame or isolation when considering the loss of connections you’ve experienced… but you’re not alone (trust us – we’ve been having these conversations multiple times a week). 

So, today we’re sharing 16 resources on friendship, dating, and loneliness, and relationships overall.

 Maybe you need them, maybe you share them with a friend, or maybe you bookmark this list to come back to later. 

Books on Friendship Relationships

• Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make–and Keep–Friends
• The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
• The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People
• We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships

Books on Dating

• 8 Rules of Love
• How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
• Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love
• How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

Books on Loneliness

• Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World
• The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
• The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage
• Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy 

Podcasts on Relationships

• Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel
• Dateable: Your insider’s look into modern dating and relationships
• Friendship IRL
• Alonement

Check out these resources and let us know which are your favorites!

— Becca & the Forward Healing team

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