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HOW COMPARISON IS RUINING YOUR FRIENDSHIPS 👀A new Sunday Session is HERE! This week, Alex discusses celebrating your friends’ wins, what to do when support in a friendship starts feeling one-sided, and the self-awareness required to not let comparison quietly ruin your relationships. She also gets into what it means when your situationship still hasn’t saved your number and the right way to handle conflict with your partner in public. Link in bio to listen now.
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If you're having thoughts of jealousy or envy when your friends share good news with you first, let me just grant you a little bit of, you know, cushion. It can sometimes be natural. I get it. You're like, oh, good. She got the job. Like, oh, like, I really wanted that or, oh, my good. And I'm failing at whatever. Like, I get it. Those are human emotions. Everyone is gonna feel them at some point. Even if you feel a little ping of jealousy or even more than that, like, that doesn't make you a bad friend. What starts to make you a bad friend is do you let those thoughts impact how you treat your friend? Can you sit with your own feelings and not act cold or dismissive towards your friend? Can you hold that for after rank can you still behave in a supporting way while then later sorting through your own resentment or envy? Listen, if you're relating to this, I'm gonna just share the advice that I remember my therapist gave me once. She said the first step is looking inward to really try to identify what feelings are coming up for you independent of your friend.
