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Nourishing Friendships

How to Make Friends You Love in Midlife and Beyond

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Nourishing Friendships

By: Alisoun Mackenzie
Narrated by: Kirsty Dewar
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Do you want more friends – to talk to, go out with, or have fun with?

To foster deeper, more meaningful friendships?

Or to cope better with friendship challenges?

Good friends lift your spirits, enhance your life, and even help you live longer. Yet many people in midlife and beyond feel lonely and yearn for like-minded friends. This book will help you meet them.

This book is for you if ANY of the following are true:

  • You’re lonely and wish you had more good friends.
  • You’re unsure how to make good friends and want practical tips.
  • You’re entering a new stage of life and want to connect with like-minded people, for company, support, and fun.
  • You want deep, meaningful friendships that light up your heart.
  • You’re envious of others who have a close-knit group of friends and want to find your tribe.
  • You’re looking for friends to do particular activities with.
  • You want to cope better with friendship challenges and enjoy harmonious friendships without any drama.

Packed with practical tips so you find it easier to:

  • Find, make, and keep good friends.
  • Be a good friend to yourself and others.
  • Nurture good friendships with the right people.
  • See the signs of toxic friendships and avoid them.
  • Set boundaries with friends.
  • Say ‘no’ to friends, without feeling guilty.
  • Resolve issues and conflicts with friends.
  • End friendships with compassion.
  • Cope better when friendships end.
  • Rekindle friendships.
  • Accept the evolving nature of friendships as you get older.

Now, more than ever, we need nourishing friendships. You’ve only got one life. You deserve to be happy.

Are you ready to make more good friends?

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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This book gives an in-depth overview of how friendship works - and why it sometimes does not work, breaks down or fades. But most of all, the author gives detailed thoughtful advice about how to change our own patterns of behaviour so we can develop lasting and nourishing relationships. The author is an experienced life coach and she shares examples from her own life as well as stories from others she has surveyed to illustrate the points she makes. Talking about friendship issues is often difficult and needs candour. It can be embarrassing. However the author leads us through the process of acknowledging our own mistakes and suggests that we should face up to awkward difficulties in order to progress through them, not run away from them. I think if you follow the advice in this excellent book, you will become a happier, more secure person with a supportive circle of friends. The book comes out of workshops the author has led, and it would be a solid and inspiring manual for anyone setting up a friendship group or workshop.

Excellent Manual of Friendship

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Friendships really do change as we get older. I’ve had to let some friends go and grieve those losses, and lately I’ve been setting boundaries with friendships that drain me. This audiobook felt so validating and practical. I loved how it covered everything from making new friends to setting healthy boundaries and ending friendships with compassion. Making new friends in midlife takes conscious effort, and I’m grateful I’ve found community in a women’s circle I joined last year. This is a wonderful resource if you’re looking to nourish your friendships in more intentional and meaningful ways.

Honest and practical guide for midlife friendships

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I’ve always said you can’t have too many friends—but let’s be honest, the real gems are the ones who show up with ice cream or a shovel, no questions asked. This book reminded me how important it is to nurture those rare soul-connections in midlife. I’m already texting a few friends just to say, “You still my person, right?”

Hide-the-Body Friends, Apply Here

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This is an excellent book and beautifully narrated and is obvious the author knows how midlife women like me feel and what happens as you travel through life. I wasn’t expecting to get emotional while listening, but I did. It spoke to something I didn’t even realise I’d been avoiding - how much I missed having proper friendships that felt easy and mutual. I’m in my 50s and after a few life changes, I realised I’d sort of drifted out of regular contact with the people I used to lean on, and I hadn’t really built anything new to replace that.

It actually helps you understand how friendships work now, at this stage of life, and how much we’ve all changed. There are loads of moments where I thought, “Oh, so that’s why that friendship felt off” or “Maybe I didn’t do anything wrong after all.” There are really useful bits about handling awkward stuff from saying no, setting boundaries, to dealing with friends who always take and never give. And I liked how it didn’t make me feel like I’d messed up, just that things evolve and we need to learn how to keep up with that.

It gave me confidence to reach out to a couple of people I’d lost touch with, and also reminded me that it’s ok to want new friends, even if you’re not in your twenties anymore.

I didn't know how much I need this - excellent!

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I have just finished listening to this book on women’s friendships in midlife and beyond. I found it gave a very helpful overview of the issues that most of us are faced with as we find, maintain and sometimes lose friends.

The chapters on drawing and respecting boundaries, saying ‘no’, and dealing with friendship endings were particularly interesting. I come away with more ideas on how to be more clear, more open and more courageous.

Being a good friend involves becoming more confident and empowered as a person. It’s a process and an adventure and sometimes a challenge. It also is yet another way to become a more conscious and more loving human being.

Thank you to Alisoun for taking me on this in depth journey.
I also enjoyed listening - for the first time - on Audible. It’s a good way to ‘read’.

Thought provoking and inspiring

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