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Category Archives: Our Mistakes
Today is National Reconciliation Day!
Oh I wish this holiday had been on my radar last week so I could have given you plenty of notice to start thinking about what action you wanted to take today toward reconciliation! But, alas, it was only when … Continue reading
Posted in Break Ups, Difficulty & Challenges, Forgiveness, How To?, Our Mistakes
Tagged Acceptance, Amy Alkon, April 2, Break-ups, Day of Reconciliation, Drift, ending friendships, fighting with a friend, Forgiveness, Friendship, friendship fights, Huffington Post Live, mad at friend, Peace, problems with friendship, Reconciliation, rift, two types of break-ups
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Friendship Break-Ups 3: “Was She Really a Friend, Anyway?”
The other night I was out with some new friends and, as often happens when someone finds out that my work is all about female friendships, women I barely know start to tell me their friendship woes. One very friendly … Continue reading
Posted in Break Ups, Circles of Connectedness, Difficulty & Challenges, Our Mistakes
Tagged 5 Circles of Friends, Circles, Commitment Friends, Common Friends, Confirmed Friends, disappointments, friend failed, friendship break-ups, Left side friends, Right-Side Friends, Shasta's Circles of Connectedness, Types of Friends, was she a real friend, wasn't there for me
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Friendship Break-Up 1: A Drift or a Rift?
A TV producer called me last week because her afternoon TV show is hoping to interview some women who are currently going through BFF break-ups. (Details below if you’re willing!) She said that when the show idea was discussed, nearly … Continue reading
Posted in Break Ups, Difficulty & Challenges, Our Mistakes
Tagged betrayed, break up, change, common causes, disappointment, drift apart, drift away, ending, fight, forgiving a friend, frenemy, hurt, mad, our lives are so different, replace friends, replace half our friends every seven years, rift, transition
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The Judgment of Weight
There are two things I will not board a plane without: a new magazine purchased at the airport and a purse filled with snacks. The snacks are self-explanatory in a day and age where one can get stuck on a … Continue reading
Posted in Difficulty & Challenges, Judging Others, Our Mistakes, Personal Growth/Spirituality, Research, Social Causes
Tagged Acceptance, chubby fairy, fat, fat studies, Friendship, Glamour, heavy, judgment, learning to accept, magazine, overweight, personal growth, prejudice, skinny, skinny witch, stereotype, stop judging, weight
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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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Go Friend-Fishing With a Net, Not a Line!
It’s been over two weeks since I’ve blogged… mostly because I was on a retreat to plug away on my book manuscript all last week and a girl can only produce so many scribbles at a time! I’m still trying … Continue reading
What We Need Are More Women, Fewer Girls.
I begrudgingly watched The Bachelor last night and shuddered at how quickly girls sized each other up and put each other down. Hoping they’d feel more cool, more amazing, and more chosen in the process. Ignorant still to the truth … Continue reading
Posted in Difficulty & Challenges, Fears, Jealousy & Competition, Judging Others, Making Friends, Our Mistakes, Personal Growth/Spirituality
Tagged acting like girls, Competitors, difficult friendships, frenemy, growth, healthy friendships, immaturity, Inner Peace, Jenna & Monica, judgment, low self esteem, Making Friends, maturity, mean girls, painful relationships, personal growth, pity party, Rejection, selfishness, Spiritual Growth, The Bachelor, time to grow up., toxic, toxic friend, Value, Worth
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Defending the Introverts, Defining Mutuality
If I had to put money on the table next to what I thought was a primary barrier to women building new friendships, I’d put it next to a mistaken view of what mutuality means. Sure, lack of time will … Continue reading
Posted in Consistency, Defining Friendship, Difficulty & Challenges, Fears, Judging Others, Love Languages & Types, Making Friends, Our Mistakes, Strengths
Tagged Balance, Enneagram, fear of rejection, friend, Friendship, Give-and-Take, Healthy, I give more, I'm always the one who, introverts, Mutual, relationship, Unequal, withdraw
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Let “Best Friend” Refer to Quality, Not Quantity.
One of my neighbor friends from childhood saw my post on Facebook about my recent TV interview on women’s friendship. Watching it reminded her of a time when we were kids where she had been in tears as a result … Continue reading
Posted in Best Friends, Fears, Jealousy & Competition, Our Mistakes, Qualities of Friendship
Tagged best friends, Best Friends Froever, BFF, childhood friend, Chosen, Committed, confidantes, Definition of Best Friend, Elizabeth Gilbert, exclusive friends, feel left out, Friendship, how many friends do we need, I wanto feel chosen, jealous of her friends
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Our Used-to-be-Closer Friends on YouTube
New YouTube Clip: This video explains the value of both our current and our “past” BFF’s. In this 3rd video of the series, Shasta Nelson, life coach and CEO of GirlFriendCircles.com dives deeper into her Confirmed Circle. Often a move, … Continue reading