{"id":6075,"date":"2023-07-29T01:10:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=6075"},"modified":"2023-07-29T01:10:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T18:10:11","slug":"how-to-meet-new-people-11-ways-tips-for-making-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=6075","title":{"rendered":"How To Meet New People: 11 Ways + Tips For Making Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindbodygreen-res.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,x_0,y_0,w_1500,h_998\/c_fill,w_700,h_400,g_auto,q_85,fl_lossy,f_jpg\/org\/nymkg8lxnjyg2429c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Speaking of softening and asking for help, don&#8217;t be afraid to get a little vulnerable. As Richmond explains, &#8220;We&#8217;re programmed to be afraid of rejection, but no connections that are worthwhile happen without vulnerability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For this reason, having a strong enough\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/articles\/how-to-develop-your-sense-of-self\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/articles\/how-to-develop-your-sense-of-self\" rel=\"noopener\">sense of self<\/a>\u00a0so you can be OK with a friendship not working out is important. Don&#8217;t be afraid to be yourself\u2014otherwise, how will you make friends who see and accept the real you?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not everyone&#8217;s going to like you, but as we get older, you can accept that not everyone needs to like you,&#8221; Richmond says. And when you live your truth, &#8220;then you can find the people who do,&#8221; she adds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1675549\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of softening and asking for help, don&#8217;t be afraid to get a little vulnerable. As Richmond explains, &#8220;We&#8217;re programmed to be afraid of rejection, but no connections that are worthwhile happen without vulnerability.&#8221; For this reason, having a strong enough\u00a0sense of self\u00a0so you can be OK with a friendship not working out is important. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[159,236],"class_list":["post-6075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-friendship","tag-loneliness"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}