Beyond "Protecting Your Peace": Why Real Friendships Need Friction

We’re living in an era obsessed with "protecting our peace." But at what point does all this rigid therapy-speak just become a polite way to avoid the messy reality of other humans?

In this livestream, Johanne sits down with relationship counsellor Dariia Milinchuk to talk about friendship, conflict, and why our cultural obsession with being perfectly regulated might actually be eroding our capacity for true intimacy.

What we’ll cover:

• The Therapy-Speak Trap: How buzzwords like "toxic" and "boundaries" are used to opt out of normal, everyday relational friction.
• Friendship as Friction: Why true intimacy requires us to actually get in the mud with each other.
• Navigating the Mess: How to tolerate the rupture and uncertainty of real relationships in an age that tells us to just optimise our interactions and walk away when it gets hard.

If you suspect that real friendship actually requires a little bit of mess, join the conversation.