Three Questions That Changed How I Choose Friends
Friendships need tending, and long-distance ones need more than the occasional text that says, “We should catch up soon,” followed by six months of silence and a vague sense that you still love each other somewhere between adulting, bills, and forgetting why you walked into the kitchen. These three questions can help you choose better friends and sustain the friendships that matter, especially at a time in life when we may need them most.
One Friendship. Two Women. Three Truths.
One friendship. Two women. Three truths. A reflection on friendship grief, competing perspectives, and the courage to choose curiosity over certainty.
The Four Forms of Friendship Grief: Why Losing a Friend is Never Just One Loss
Friendship grief can complicate midlife reinvention, stirring Bigly Feels and Doubt Goblins long after a friendship ends. This Badass Arts Reflection explores four forms of friendship grief and why naming the loss can help women in their middle years move forward with greater clarity, courage, and self-trust.
When a Friendship Dies Before It Ends
When soul sisters cut the cord, there’s no formal declaration that says, “Here lies a friendship that once held two women through divorce, dating, road trips, raising children, laughing until they cried, and surviving the years when life asked too much.”
Staying Took Forever. Leaving An Instant
For years, I carried the secret of a fractured marriage behind the veil of a beautiful life. This is the story of staying, protecting my children, reclaiming my freedom, and learning what it means to trust myself again.
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