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🎗 Awareness 🏡 Home 🗂 Productivity 🥗 Wellness 🧗 Growth 👨👩👧👧 Family 📚 Book Recommendation
🏡 “Great mom friends are invaluable, so when you find one, don’t let her go!” “Let’s be real for a second. Husbands are great. We need them as our companions, partners and Netflix-watching comrades. Moms, sisters, aunts, mothers-in-law, they are all invaluable resources and sounding boards. Coworkers can be like extended family. But girlfriends, more specifically “mom friends,” are our lifelines.” Read Mom Friends: How to Know if You’ve Found a Keeper
🎗 Why is it so hard to make mom friends? “My children put me in situations with other moms all the time at the playground, school events and activities. Yet I can count on one hand the number of true blue mom friends I’ve met under these circumstances.” Read The real reason it’s so hard to make mom friends
🧗🏽♀️ Which of the 5 types of friends are you? “I’m willing to bet that if you stopped and thought about your group of friends, you would be able to identify a need each one of them fulfills for you.” Read 5 types of friends that every mom needs
🗂 “Good vibes are contagious.” “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with, so choose wisely.” Read What the 5 People Closest to You Say About Your Future
🥗 This was shared with us by a dear friend and Grace in the Race reader and we couldn’t agree more. “There is so much I’ve grieved these past 11 months, but perhaps most acutely I miss the company of women.” Read In The Company Of Women: The Pandemic Void Only My Girlfriends Can Fill
👨👩👧👦 Do you know the science behind having mom friends? “Turns out, scientists agree that mom friends are not only essential to your happiness, but to your children’s development as well.” Read Having Mom Friends is Good for You and Your Kid, Study Says
📚 Book Recommendation… “A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don’t talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul.” Read Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman
🎧 Podcast Playlist | 3/24/21