Anatomy of Friendship the Podcast

F-Bombs, Adult friendships, Road trips and Matcha Lattes! Join us for a #ThelmaAndLouise, real-life car ride in Oregon as we pull apart the F word …yes, you heard that right! Thanks to a brilliant reframe from our friend Sue Ganz-Schmitt, theF word is no longer just about fun or free . And that’s only the beginning. We explore a whole constellation of F words that reveal the subtle ways we get kno...

Though we strive for balance, It's harder than we'd like to admit. However, we’ve found a few little tricks up our sleeves to help us err on the side of being heavenly even when hell breaks loose! www. AnatomyOfFriendship.com

Although it can be laced with joy, this time of year can also be rife with challenges, triggers, disappointments, and painful emotions that we can typically avoid all year long, which seem to pop up this time of year. There is such expectation, hope, and outsized meaning that we are understandably feeling stressed, anxious, disappointed, and all things that are not so Ho Ho Ho. We share our best s...

What are the telltale signs of being in fear or flow? How do you respond differently in your relationships when you're in one state or the other? And how do you switch gears when you're in fear to get back into flow? 🎥  Subscribe  to our YouTubeChannel: https://www.youtube.com/@AnatomyofFriendship 🍎 Apple: https://tinyurl.com/bddsuamz 🎁  Receive our FREE gift:  https://www.kellysullivanwalden.c...

Jo-e and Kelly talk with their dear friend, Nancy T about when friends fly south, which is another way of saying left in the wind when you least expect it. Why do friends leave? How do we deal with it? What can we do to prevent it? #Friendship #ghosted #AnatomyOFriendship #Jo-eSutton #KellySullivanWalden #NancyT #FriendBreakup #breakup

We won't gloss over our heartbreak about the 2024 election--but we also know a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. In the darkest mud is where the lotus blooms. We talk about pronoia and OGLE and all the many ways to find the light in dark times. www. AnatomyOfFriendship.com https://www.youtube.com/@AnatomyofFriendship

Challenges in friendships and relationships may make us scream out, “What is the purpose of all this?” Sometimes we feel harmed and sometimes we have harmed others. Harnessing the purpose in the depth of friendships may prove to be the worthiest of investments. Ghosting, micro-ghosting, growing apart and other sensitive challenges happen in friendships as we change and age. How on earth do we deal...

#WhitneyHouston was almost right--we're not just every woman...but every man...and probably every creature... at least from a #QuantumPhysics perspective.  it comes to FRIENDSHIP for I AM ALL OF IT. This is a controversial subject that encourages us to accept our whole self, the dark and the light and every shade between, in order to find true peace. We travel from the tiniest atom in physics...

Emotional dysregulation is a brain-related symptom that makes it difficult to manage emotions and feelings--Yet so is emotional suppression. Both of these are the enemy of lasting friendships. So, how do we strike the right balance? How to let your emotions rip without ripping off your friend's head? Kelly and Jo-e share embarrassing mistakes they learned the hard way before they learned to ke...

Once bitten (or many times bitten), twice shy (or many times shy). How can you love or trust a new friend (or anyone, for that matter) after your heart has been smashed, crashed, and burned? Discover the secret (shhhhh) of feeling safe and opening your achy-breaky heart in relationships. Here’s a hint: It has little to do with the other person.trust a new friend (or anyone, for that matter) after...

The secret to being able to trust someone else’s process and to give up the need to fix or change others is in this podcast. Listen in as Kelly and Jo-e explore how vital providing dignity is, to our friendships and relationships. We talk about our own lack of dignity and how it led us to learning what it was and how to access it. This episode is chock full of tools to self-regulate and save our r...

Authentic, honest relationships build trust and allow us to be metaphorically naked (authentic and vulnerable) safely. This is similar to self-responsibility mentioned above, but with a little nuance. The goal of our relationship is to be able to be fully exposed, vulnerable, willing to get to the deepest truth beneath the layers of self-protection. In a moment of conflict or upset, we give oursel...

Ooooh, this is an important episode. We explore how friendships can fail when we heap our expectations and entitlement on another human being. We talk about real live losses and how we are learning to be our most responsible selves. These are some serious topics that reveal some of the ways we, ourselves, hurt our relationship with entitlement and how we have been hurt by it as well. Let’s explore...

Join us as we explore the aspect of friendship that has to do with seeing the innocence in our friends and fellow humans. We explore how to reduce our inner pain as activated by the behavior of hurting people and to see who they are at their core, instead of what their behavior activates in us… then we begin to grow deeper compassion for others and kinder, more healing, self-talk. #Innocence #Cost...

When we take 100% responsibility for our energy and play the game of radical responsibility, blame becomes so lame. We imagine that our lives were written, directed and cast by our higher selves. In that way, we reduce victimhood and take ultimate responsibility for our thoughts, beliefs, perspectives, and behavior. We are still very much human and linger in the underworld as long as we need to, b...

Oh Boy, this episode, “For Fun and For Free” is called the F word for a reason. Kelly and Jo really mine the unsaid rules of relationship expectations. What does “For Fun And For Free” mean? Kelly talks about Rumi’s quote, “to give only of our overflow and not of our well.” This rocks normal expectations of friendship rules and there is a long conversation to define how to make this work in real f...

Join Kelly Sullivan Walden (Dr. Dream) and Jo-e Sutton (holistic health counselor) as they explore over a quarter of a century of research and practice to identify and hone the skills of creating and maintaining exceptional friendships. They explore their “rules” for healthy, thriving friendships and relationships through their friendship formula. They get nitty gritty, honest, and bare their foib...