The Friendship Formula: Add Great Friends, Subtract Toxic People, and Multiply Your Happiness

Friendship is such an important part of our lives but how much to we really know about it? Caroline Millington introduced the concept of "kindfulness"—blending mindfulness with being kind to yourself. That means setting boundaries to get the best out of your relationships and making your emotional wellbeing a priority. Now she shows readers how to apply this concept to create and maintain long-lasting, nurturing and functioning friendships. Friendship is a beautiful thing but there are times it can be tricky to navigate: when friendship becomes toxic; how to break up with a friend; what to do if a friend "ghosts" you and surviving friendship betrayal; how motherhood can impact on female friendships; friendship grief and how to cope with losing a friend. This book shows you how applying kindfulness to the difficult side of friendship can help you get the best out of those friendships that really matter.