480 Female Friendships Can Be Complicated! (Friendship Assessment/Inventory Inside)
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Are your female friendships challenging?
Have you struggled to find the right crew?
Have you ever needed to "break up" with one of your female friends?
Or have you gone into therapy because of a female friendship?
If this resonates, you are not alone. In my 25 years as a psychotherapist, I can't even begin to tell you how many women have experienced these exact things. The pain and suffering of having not-so-great female friends landed a number of them in therapy long before any romantic relationship.
But female friendships don't have to be problematic. In today's episode, I'm sharing the benefits of healthy female friendships, what they look like, and how to create them. I also share my own experience with female friendships and why I couldn't live happily without my nearest and dearest pals.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there and welcome to this episode of the Terry Cole Show. |
| 0:04.0 | I want to start with a question. |
| 0:06.0 | Have you ever had conflicts in your female friendships? |
| 0:10.0 | I cannot tell you how many women have written into me and come up to me at events |
| 0:16.0 | where I was speaking, basically telling me about the dysfunctional boundaries |
| 0:21.0 | disordered painful experiences that they have with their female friendships. |
| 0:26.0 | So if you're not in your head, yes, you have this difficulty. |
| 0:29.0 | Well, then today's episode is for you because I'm going to be talking about |
| 0:33.0 | how you can build a posse of women that supports you, |
| 0:40.0 | that are in your front row that just want you to win. |
| 0:45.0 | So before we get into it, I want to take a moment to say, |
| 0:48.0 | oh my god, I'm so happy that you're hanging out with me today. |
| 0:52.0 | It literally means the world to me because you know, you can be doing anything. |
| 0:56.0 | Well, you know, and maybe you're doing something as you're listening to this. |
| 0:59.0 | But I just appreciate you being here. |
| 1:01.0 | If you want to support the show, it really does help me so much. |
| 1:04.0 | If you take a minute to rate, review and subscribe, please do that. |
| 1:09.0 | And I'd love to highlight our five star reviews. |
| 1:11.0 | So thank you, HLVP, for this five star review, relatable and informative. |
| 1:16.0 | Terry is a great host and there is so much useful information in each episode. |
| 1:20.0 | I especially love the support on change and adaptability. |
| 1:24.0 | Well, I thank you for taking the time to say so, HLVP. |
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