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How to Maintain Social Wellness During the Holidays
Learn how to maintain social wellness and combat seasonal lulls during the holidays by embracing the five love languages.
6 Text Messages to Send a Friend that Feel Like a Hug
We’ve compiled a list of text messages which will make them feel loved, no matter how far away they are. Get inspired today!
How to Get Closer to Someone & Become Real Friends
Make no mistake about it, new friendships require dedicated time and attention. When a great new friend enters your life, the effort is quickly outweighed by the benefit of true, meaningful connection.
How Does Your Digital Wellness Affect Your Social Wellness?
It’s important to strike a balance between using technology as a helpful social tool and abusing it as a quick social fix to avoid real-life interactions. Digital wellness is a term used to describe how well you strike that balance.
Questions to Ask Yourself When Organizing Your Social Circles
Being honest with yourself about who you’re most invested in is the first step to organizing your friends into circles of closeness.
5 Great Questions for Every Type of Person in Your Life
Set your sights on strong relationships and deeper connections to keep your social health booming. Need help? These conversation-starting questions really do the trick.
Friends Holding Hands: The Benefits of Human Touch
Holding hands with your platonic friends can positively influence your overall well-being and deepen your connections, regardless of your gender, culture, or social status.
Staying Grounded in Self-Care When You’re a Social Hustler
Self-care and relaxation allows you to enjoy being there for the ones you care about most. Enjoy our favorite alone-in-the-world rituals to recharge your mind, body, and spirit, any time you need it.
Going Deeper: Conversational Kick-Starters & Connectivities
Deep connections are the secret to a happy, healthy life, and great friendships are built on a foundation of embracing vulnerability. If it gets awkward, you’re doing something right!
We Asked 13 Experts to Define Social Wellness
Social wellness means something different to everyone. The one thing we all do have in common is that social connectivity is something we need.
5 Signs Your Social Circles Are Too Exclusive
How do you know if you are being inclusive in your social circles, or exclusive? Ask yourself these 5 questions.
Improve Your Social Fitness With These Fun Challenges
You know the importance of exercising your body to keep yourself physically strong, and you might do crossword puzzles or brain teasers to stay mentally fit. But have you given much thought to your social fitness?
How to Start Fresh in Any Friendship After a Falling Out
Sometimes doors need to close in our friendships, but how do we mend when the dust settles, and we feel drawn to reconnect?
The Superpower of Being Alone and Enjoying It
You can’t find happiness with an outside-in approach, it has to originate within you. When you master your inner thoughts, you can feel like an ordinary everyday superhero.
‘Fear of Being Left Out’ is a Biological Survival Technique
Whether you experience a moment of total disconnection in a crowd of friends or when you’re alone, your sense of “loneliness” is not entirely based on the presence of others.