When You Shrink Your Circle of Friends

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✍️ Editor’s Note:

Zalman is my therapist—and my secret weapon.

When I was unraveling, he didn’t just offer support. He helped me see the patterns running my life and gave me language sharp enough to cut through them.

His insights appear everywhere in Permission to Be Powerful because they changed me. Now, I want them to reach you.

This is your introduction to Zalman, LCSW. You’ll be hearing more from him.

—Anton

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Dear Permission to be Powerful Reader,

If you’re working on your Life Patterns…

Building a better and more loving and accepting relationship with his Child Self…

And learning to respect them more…

And who is seeing changes in his relationships…

Such as being more aware of people who aren’t respecting you…

And beginning to back off those relationships…

As well as embracing those who respect you.

You’re seeing your friend circle shrink and are concerned about it:

You’re doing a lot of inner growth…

And changing how you feel about yourself…

See yourself…

And talk to yourself.

And with that comes a new view of the people around you.

Including, in some cases…

Deciding that a particular person or persons no longer deserves so much time, effort, and attention from you.

You’re observing and noticing how they only connect to you as long as you give, while they receive all the time.

All of that is ok.

At first, you see your friend circle shrink, but those who remain in the circle are keepers and good ones.

Also, with time, you build up a few more in the circle…

As the new you, the one that accepts, loves, values, and respects you, actively filters out those who do and don’t respect you back.

— Zalman, LCSW

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