Wow, this is a great post and I'm going to come back and spend some more time with it. In the meantime, I wanted to let you know that I applied for my town's library board of trustees! Haven't heard back yet, but thanks for the inspiration. ❤️
Wonderfully thought out! Building community has become important to me, and so far I’ve been too scared to reach out or attend groups. Loneliness is a huge problem today, and my husband and I don’t have “couple friends”, which we’d love to have. We also live in a rural area, but I just haven’t done the work to seek out opportunities to make new friends, most likely from fear of rejection. We also want to become parents on the near future, so having those friends will be ESSENTIAL. We have family and we love them, but having unrelated friends is just as important. That’s my goal this year: attend more opportunities to build relationships. Thanks!
Perfect post to receive today. I decided several months ago that I really wanted to build a community among the women I already know. I want to channel the overall feeling of hopelessness many seem to have into positive actions--my interest is all based on being exposed to the ideas in your book. I decided to "practice" expressing this last night with someone at a NY Eve Party. I really struggled finding a short, simple way to say it. I knew the first time I tried to have this type of convo I would have trouble but you gotta start somewhere! Any ideas on a way start? I'm more used to asking questions rather than initiating talking points.
Love this advice. As a physician, I’ve been thinking so much about how marketers use our health anxieties against us to sell us stuff we don’t need. But health isn’t a commodity. That’s the energy I’m trying to lean on as I too continue to work against the cultural programming of the 90s. I wrote about it here… https://www.poppiesandpropofol.com/p/new-year-same-toxic-wellness-marketing
Wow, this is a great post and I'm going to come back and spend some more time with it. In the meantime, I wanted to let you know that I applied for my town's library board of trustees! Haven't heard back yet, but thanks for the inspiration. ❤️
Incredible!!!!
Wonderfully thought out! Building community has become important to me, and so far I’ve been too scared to reach out or attend groups. Loneliness is a huge problem today, and my husband and I don’t have “couple friends”, which we’d love to have. We also live in a rural area, but I just haven’t done the work to seek out opportunities to make new friends, most likely from fear of rejection. We also want to become parents on the near future, so having those friends will be ESSENTIAL. We have family and we love them, but having unrelated friends is just as important. That’s my goal this year: attend more opportunities to build relationships. Thanks!
Perfect post to receive today. I decided several months ago that I really wanted to build a community among the women I already know. I want to channel the overall feeling of hopelessness many seem to have into positive actions--my interest is all based on being exposed to the ideas in your book. I decided to "practice" expressing this last night with someone at a NY Eve Party. I really struggled finding a short, simple way to say it. I knew the first time I tried to have this type of convo I would have trouble but you gotta start somewhere! Any ideas on a way start? I'm more used to asking questions rather than initiating talking points.
This is so lovely. I really enjoyed reading through this. You are a gem.
Oh I love this. Thank you 🙏 Buon Anno from Venezia!
Love this advice. As a physician, I’ve been thinking so much about how marketers use our health anxieties against us to sell us stuff we don’t need. But health isn’t a commodity. That’s the energy I’m trying to lean on as I too continue to work against the cultural programming of the 90s. I wrote about it here… https://www.poppiesandpropofol.com/p/new-year-same-toxic-wellness-marketing
I love this! Thank you for the focus questions. Can't wait to break out my journal and do some reflecting.