Life-Giving New Friends: A Guide to Help You Find Tribe Friends Who Will Accept and Love You, and Fight for You. - Softcover

Ho, Dr Angie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9819468906 ISBN 13: 9789819468904

Verlag: Angie Ho, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

"Friends don't fall from the sky." You've heard it before and you've tried. You've shown up, put yourself out there, said yes to invitations. But somehow, the deep, life-giving friendships you're searching for keep slipping through your fingers.

Maybe you've poured your heart into a connection only to realise it never went both ways. Maybe you've been burned by oversharing too soon, or by giving too much to someone who disappeared the moment you stopped giving. Or maybe you simply don't know how to move a "hi-bye" acquaintance into a tribe friend.

Life-Giving New Friends is the guide you wish someone had handed you years ago.

Written by Dr Angie Ho, a psychologist and founder of Navigating Humans, this book introduces Social Health GPS®, a practical, real-time decision-making framework for building friendships that last. Drawing on psychology, real-life stories (including her own), and years spent walking alongside people through relationship breakdowns and repair, Angie offers concrete tools for knowing what to do, when to do it, and how much of yourself to give.

Structured around the 5Ws and 1H, this book walks you through the entire arc of building a tribe friendship:

Why connect: Understand how social health shapes your physical and mental wellbeing.

When to go: Recognise the life seasons when you need to intentionally seek new connections.

Where to go: Align your friendships with your life vision through guided reflection exercises.

Who to connect with: Learn the four connection types and the Mutuality Rhythm® to spot a genuine peer fit.

What and when to say: Navigate the seven levels of talk, from small talk to heart talk, without oversharing or trauma-dumping.

What to give and how much: Use the Love Pyramid and Giving Intensity Checklist to give generously without being taken advantage of.

How to stay safe: Verify the human and verify the connection to protect yourself from scams and one-sided relationships.

When a connection goes south: Choose the right response to conflict, from direct dealing to the slow fade, and find genuine freedom even without resolution.

AI companions: A timely look at the line between healthy emotional support and emotional dependence on AI chatbots.

Each chapter blends real-life stories, reflective questions, and hands-on exercises you can complete directly in the book, so it becomes a working companion rather than something you read once and shelve.

Whether you're starting over in a new city, rebuilding your circle after a major life change, or simply tired of friendships that never quite go anywhere, Life-Giving New Friends gives you the clarity and confidence to find, and become, a tribe friend.

You deserve friends who accept you, love you, and fight for you. This book shows you how to find them.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Angie Ho
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9819468906
• ISBN 13: 9789819468904
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 166
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxemburg