Good Friend or Bad Friend, What Your Friendships Reveal

Have you ever looked at the patterns playing out in your friendships and realised they look exactly like the ones in your marriage? The same fears. The same internal voice. The same desperate urge to fix it before it all falls apart.

In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, explores what our friendships reveal about our deepest relationship patterns, and how untangling them can be one of the most powerful things we do for our closest connections.

Rather than asking who's the good friend and who's the bad friend, this conversation is an invitation to get curious about what's really underneath. Because the patterns showing up in your friendships and your marriage are rarely a coincidence.

You'll hear about

• Why your friendship patterns and marriage patterns are rarely a coincidence
• What enmeshment actually is and how it shows up in every relationship
• The difference between performance-based connection and real safety
• How to rebuild when your identity has been built on others' approval
• Three places to start if you're ready to do the work

If you've been going through a season of questioning your friendships, feeling that familiar pull to fix or rescue or hold everything together, this episode will help you understand what's really underneath it. The question of who's a good friend and who's a bad friend quietly falls away when you find your way back to yourself. That's where clarity and ease live.

Resources & Links

🌐 Learn more about Rise into Regulation™, the skillset for connection, communication, and Nervous System safety in modern marriage.

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Big love,

Lauren x