Episode 65 - Female Friendships - the highs, lows and everything in-between

In this conversation we dig into the topic of friendships and what happens when they shift, for whatever reason.

Specifically female friendships, the importance of them and what to do when they sometimes breakdown. How to nurture them in the different seasons of life and how best to look after each other and ourselves. Leonie talks about a friendship model from her mother, while Katrina shares a friendship that broke down and the emotions involved, and Christy shares a helpful meditation to support a challenging relationship.

We all agreed this is something that we just don’t talk about enough, how we usually don’t know how to respond, including ‘ghosting’ and the need to normalise friendship challenges as adults – because they do occur.

More often than not it’s about how we respond and that by doing the inner work and being kind to yourself, it will help navigate the different seasons of friendships.

We discuss how friendship requires trust, effort, quality time (not necessarily quantity) honesty, mature communication and sometimes bravery and we love the saying: friends come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.

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Love Christy, Katrina and Leonie

xxx

Links to the things we mentioned in this chat:

Christy – Loving Kindness Meditation – there are many versions, but I have used Gabby Bernstein’s meditation and you can find it here: