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HERself

31. Navigating Friendships in a Busy Season

HERself

Abby and Amy

Best Self, Comparison, Opportunity, Health & Fitness, Purpose, Grow, Education, Parenting, Honest, Vulnerable, Mental Health, Future, Kids & Family, Real, Self-improvement

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Friendships. Are. Necessary. Period. But when schedules are tight, they are many times the first to go. If you are a listener in your 30’s, this is an especially trying season with keeping and making relationships that hold true value. This also goes for releasing the guilt associated with knowing some friendships have run their course and don’t need pressure to maintain. Know that if you are struggling with any part of this, you are not alone. Today we bring in our own experience as...

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0:12.5

You brought up a really good point Amy with when we have more time and that is such a slippery slope like just thinking about when we have more time because something else is always going to come up like there's always something else that's tugging at our

0:15.8

to-do list, tugging at our calendar,

0:18.0

and knowing that there's always going to be more work to do,

0:21.1

more cleaning, there's going to be a kid who needs you, but there's something

0:25.0

about being with friends that just makes you feel so much like yourself. Like

0:29.6

there's very, very few opportunities right now where you feel that connected and that

0:34.1

connected to who you are as a person than when you're sitting there and being with

0:38.3

your friends running, latte, library, tacos, margaritas, whatever it may be.

0:46.0

I'm Amy and I'm Abby and as women we are constantly comparing ourselves to others.

0:54.0

But your life isn't supposed to look like hers.

0:57.2

Being your best self means standing firm in your decisions and always being willing to grow

1:01.7

with a purpose.

1:03.0

We get vulnerable and real

1:05.0

with an honest look into the challenges and triumphs we all face.

1:09.0

Every woman listening gets the opportunity to choose what life looks like for herself.

1:15.0

We are diving into one of our most requested topics today and that is Friendship. We're excited to

1:26.9

open this conversation up and see where it goes. Recently I was listening to an episode of Mom Brain that featured author Lydia Densworth.

1:37.0

I loved the message she shared.

1:41.0

One thing that people, including myself, have a hard time admitting is that friendships will change over the course of your lifetime.

1:49.0

You might have thought that someone was going to be a lifelong friend and it didn't work out that way.

1:55.1

Like I know that's happened to me so you're not alone in that experience.

2:00.8

But the first and maybe most important takeaway that I wanted to get across is that we need

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