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Kaarin Anderson Ryan, PhD 9.6.24 How many times a day do you have online interactions with friends, including social media, texting, even video calls? And how many times a day do you see your friend face-to-face for social interaction? if you are li...

Kaarin Anderson Ryan, PhD 8.26.24 It can be so challenging in a busy week to make sure you have time to maintain friendships, or make new ones. To help you work on prioritizing time with friends, try some of these tips! - Do things with friends...

Kaarin Anderson Ryan, PhD 6.17.24 In my last post, I shared ideas for how to make new friends. Now let's think about how to help build closer friendships with people. In order to help build closer friendships, a key is spending time together - sharing...

Kaarin Anderson Ryan 5.21.24 It can be difficult to meet new friends in our busy world. To try to build more friendships, you need to start by creating opportunities and taking some initiative. Here are 3 ideas for meeting new people and forming fri...

Kaarin Anderson Ryan, PhD 5.1.24 How many friends do you have? Acquaintances? Social media contacts? There are a lot of ways to think about friends and friendship, and the landscape is changing all the time. All forms of friendship and social contact h...

Kaarin Anderson Ryan, PhD August 22, 2023 To help improve optimism, start by taking a look at what surrounds you. Do you watch or read a lot of negative news? Do you spend time with people who are negative? You don't have to stop looking at the...

Photo by Julia M Cameron on Pexels.com Kaarin Anderson Ryan, PhD, BCBA, LBA 12.1.20 After several months of lighter restrictions, along with outdoor activity options that gave all of us more opportunities for safe socializing, now we are seein...

[caption id="attachment_media-13" align="alignnone" width="1880"] Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com[/caption] Kaarin Anderson Ryan, PhD, BCBA  10.30.19 Let's think about what we envision when it comes to planning out our lives. How do we make big decisions?...