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Author Archives: ShastaGFC
Three Friendship Inspirations from a 7-Year Old
It has been a record 22 days since I’ve blogged! I guess you can’t complain you’re ever getting too many e-mails from me! My excuse for my negligence is two-fold: First, I sent off the complete draft of my book … Continue reading
Posted in Best Friends, How To?, Life Stages, Moms, Qualities of Friendship
Tagged adoration, adults, Best Friends Forever, BFF, childhood friend, children, compliments, friends, Friendship, friendships dont just happen, kids, learning from, lessons, Making Friends, more, New Friends, not the same anymore, school, spending time, time together
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Earth Day, God, and Relationships
On this blog I talk about relationships. Almost every week (not quite as regular this month since I immersed myself in writing the final chapters of my book manuscript!) I write about how our relationships impact us, or how we … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Personal Growth/Spirituality, Social Causes
Tagged Adam, Aprill 22, Disconnection, Earth Day, Eve, Garden of Eden, Genesis, God, healthy friendships, healthy relationships, Mother Nature, Reconciliation, Relationship to, Revelation, Sin, Theology, toll on relationships
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Race and Friendship
Anderson Cooper is highlighting results all week on his CNN AC360 show about kids and race in America. As adults it’s sometimes harder to gauge prejudice and racism since we are trained to be politically correct and don’t want to … Continue reading
Posted in Difficulty & Challenges, Judging Others, Research, Social Causes, Types of Friends
Tagged AC360, all my friends are the same, Anderson Cooper, black friends, black kids are more optimistic than whites, CNN, diversity in friendships, how to teach kids about race, inter-racial dating, Kids on Race, parenting, racial distrust, racial diveristy, similarity in friendships, the more diverse the schhol the more homogenous our friends, value of diverse schools, wedding party photos and diversity, white friends
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My Annual GirlFriend Group: The Benefits of Long Distance Friendships!
Tomorrow morning I fly out to San Antonio for my Annual SoCal Girls Weekend. SO EXCITED! We used to all live in Southern California (hence why I still refer to us as the SoCal group!) where we would get together … Continue reading
Posted in Best Friends, Consistency, Girls Night, Maintaining Friends, Types of Friends
Tagged annual get-together, benefits of, close friends, Commitment, Confirmed Friends, former friends, Frientimacy, girlfriend get away, girls trip, girls weekend, how to group of friends, long distance friendships, long-term friends, my friends are moving, old friends, reasons for, used to be friends, value of
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Shaping Serendipity as a Way to Make New Friends
If serendipity is the aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident, then trying to increase that encounter with luck would be what we call “shaping serendipity.” John Hagel, one of the authors of The Power of Pull, spoke last fall … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Movies, Business, How To?, Making Friends
Tagged Access, Achieve, Attract, female friendship, Friendship, GirlFriendCircles.com, How to Make New Friends, how to meet people, Increase Odds, increasing luck, John Hagel, luck or hard work, Meeting People, mirror neurons, Networking, New Friends, Power of Pull, Shaping Serendipity, Shasta Nelson, Social Network, Three levels of Pull, Tips for, Vulnerability
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I Need My Readers’ Votes!
On behalf of GirlFriendCircles.com, I am honored that we are listed as finalists for two About.com Readers’ Choice Awards: Favorite Site for Making New Friends: Vote for GirlFriendCircles.com (2nd option) Favorite Friendship Blog: Vote for Shasta’s Friendship Blog (4th option) … Continue reading
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All Those “Unhealthy People” Drive Me Crazy
It’s all too easy to point fingers and feel frustrated at those people in our lives who don’t live up to our expectations. After all, they are our friends who are supposed to “do anything for me” and “if I … Continue reading
Posted in Difficulty & Challenges, Judging Others, Maintaining Friends, Personal Growth/Spirituality
Tagged ask for what you want, be honest, dealing with people, disappointed, friend let me down, Miscommunication, people pleasing, personal development, she's never there for me, toxic people, toxic relationships, unhealthy people, Unhealthy Relationships, Unmet Expectations
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I Just Want to Fit In! The Insecurities of Not Belonging.
One of the hardest parts of life is feeling the fear of not fitting in, whatever that means. As a kid I wished I could afford the ever-cool Guess jeans and Ked shoes instead of the $14.99 Jordache’s and Payless … Continue reading
Posted in Our Mistakes, Social Causes
Tagged belonging, critical voice, do I fit in?, Fear, fitting in, Founders, greatest fear in life is rejection, hard to meet new people, Insecurities, Red Chair, Sheryl Sandberg, sit in the red chair, Sit With Me, Stanford MBA, Start-up, Women 2, Women in Technology, Women Pitch Conference
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