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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Ellie-Mae Hammond

Trust Me, I'm a Behavioural Scientist—Friendships Are One of the Most Powerful Yet Overlooked Health Tools

Two women at the beach, friends spending the day together.

I’ve been thinking a lot about friendship lately. Specifically, the women I couldn’t imagine my life without, and how embarrassingly easy it has become to go weeks, sometimes months, without properly seeing them.

We are, after all, very busy people. There are jobs, partners, children, ageing parents, life admin and approximately 38 WhatsApp conversations we are already failing to keep up with. Friendship can start to feel like another thing on the list. Something we’ll get to when everything else is done.

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