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Cooking Up Connection – The Recipe to Making, and Keeping, Friends by Emma Green

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Maintaining friendships can feel like cooking a meal, time-intensive and challenging, but the reward is a nourishing bond. Craving deeper connections? This guide from Collectively blends 9 science-based elements, Intentionality, Proximity, Dependability, Positivity, Flexibility, Vulnerability, Commonality, Reciprocity, and Connectivity, into a recipe for lasting happiness. Gather these “ingredients” through effort, presence, and support, then simmer with care.

Making the Case for Connection by Emma Green

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Loneliness isn’t just emotionally painful, it’s a serious threat to your health. In Making the Case for Connection, Emma Green explores why human connection is essential and offers simple, meaningful ways to strengthen your social ties. Your health depends on it.

Abbi Gilchrist: The Power of Social Connections

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In “The Power of Social Connections,” Abbi Gilchrist, Collectively student intern, reflects on the impact of social isolation during the COVID pandemic and the essential role that relationships play in our overall well-being. As a member of Generation Z, Abbi shares her journey of rediscovering the importance of emotional support, belonging, and mental health through social connections.