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#211 - You Don’t Have to Be Fully Secure to Have Good Friendships (Dr. Marisa G. Franco)
Dr. Marisa G. Franco is back on Dear Nina! This time we spoke about her new book, Worth: The New Science of Self-Esteem and Secure Attachment, and how our sense of self-worth affects the friendships we build, keep, and sometimes struggle to trust.
Marisa’s first book, Platonic, focused on how we create and maintain strong friendships. Worth goes a step further inward: What happens when the way we see ourselves makes it harder to believe that other people genuinely like us, value us, or want to be close to us?
One of my favorite ideas from our conversation is Marisa’s argument that the goal…
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