Hi friends, welcome to Girls Night. I'm Stephanie Maywielsen and I am so happy that you're here.

Each week, I have a girlfriend over and we talk through one of the biggest questions

we have about our lives as women. We're talking about friendships and faith and relationships

and self-confidence, about our calling in life and how to live every bit of our lives

to the absolute full. Life is so much better and easier and absolutely more fun when we

navigate it together as girlfriends and I cannot wait to get started.

In today's episode, we're going to be talking to my sweet friend, Caitlin Wernett.

Caitlin is a beautiful writer who regularly contributes to she rates truth, as well as

writing on her own blog about grace and grief, adventures and friendship and so much more.

You guys are going to love Caitlin. She is brilliant and warm and wise and funny. She loves

God with her whole heart and has helped thousands of women get to know him better.

Caitlin is also such a dear friend of mine and because we moved here at just around the

same time, Caitlin and I were some of each other's first friends here in Nashville. And actually,

that's what we're talking about in today's episode. We're talking all about friendship,

specifically how to make new friends as an adult because I know I'm not telling you anything

new when I say it can be so tricky.

Carlin I moved to Nashville about 2.5 seconds after we got married and I have to tell you,

it was the loneliest season of my entire life. And that sounds crazy to say, right? I had

just gotten married to the best man I know and our marriage was so good right from the start.

But I found out really quickly that marriage doesn't replace the need for really great girlfriends

and for the first time in my life, I didn't have any. Well, I didn't have any in my state anyway.

And so I began the long journey of learning how to make friends all over again and not long

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