This expert-approved Kate Hudson friendship advice will help you nurture the most important relationships in your life.

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Kasley Killam, MPH, is a social health expert.

If you follow Hudson on Instagram, you probably know that her squad runs deep.

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I, for one, relate to this feeling of disconnection in abigway (hi friends!

I miss your faces!

), and social health expertKasley Killam, MPH,says Hudson and I are not alone.

Two people’s legs touch under a table as they work on their laptops.

Kasley Killam, MPH, is a social health expert.

The pandemic has also harmed two key ingredients for forming and maintaining friendships: proximity and consistency.

Its much harder to stay close when you rarely see someone.

If youre feeling disconnected, maybe it’s crucial that you ask yourself if youre nurturing the right friendships.

Books on grief are seen floating against a backdrop of clouds.

If youre feeling disconnected, maybe you better ask yourself if youre nurturing the right friendships, she says.

And to be sure, just because a friendship may have lapsed, its not necessarily officially DOA.

The most important thing, she says, is to be up-front and own whats going on.

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You are probably not alone in the desire to reconnect, so try being honest, she says.

Vulnerability is key to close connection.

Check in, go to the dinner, and make the effort to really be one-on-one, she says.

Michelle Monaghan, Carrie Coon, and Leslie Bibb in The White Lotus, symbolizing toxic friendships.

Sometimes you get into your routineyoure with your kids, youre busybut ultimately, we all need our friends.

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