Friendships keep you healthy

This article is from The National Wellness Institute:

Improve your friendships, make new friends and improve your health

The Mayo Clinic offers the following suggestions to improve your mental state by focusing on relationships and friendships. Most importantly, they offer several suggestions to strengthen relationships as well as ways to make new friends.

Why friendships are so important?

The connections of friendship can:

Increase your sense of belonging and purpose

Boost your happiness

Reduce stress

Improve your self-worth

Decrease your risk of serious mental illness

Help you weather traumas, such as divorce, serious illness, job loss or the death of a loved one

Encourage you to change unhealthy lifestyle habits, such as excessive drinking or lack of exercise

Share in your good times, such as a new baby, a new job, a new house

Part two on seeking new friendships tomorrow

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