15. The Tapestry of Female Friendships
About the episode:
On today’s episode, my friend Jaymie and I discuss:
What the term “best friend” means to us
The idea of friendships being a tapestry throughout our life
Grieving the ends of friendships and the seasons of life
How the world often tells us our love and our emotions is “too” much
How to support your friends when they go through dark times
Our happiest memories with our friends
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Listen to “The Tapestry of Female Friendships” Deleted Scenes
Additional Resources:
This episode does bring up the topic of suicide. If you or anyone you know is going through crisis, you can reach out for confidential support at https://988lifeline.org/, or by dialing 988.
Quotes:
"In your manuscript, right, you reference best friends like a category, not like an ultimate position. And I love that right because I think... in my mind, best friend was always this like, top of the podium that your friends were competing for." — Jaymie
I don’t know just as I've grown older, I may have shared this with you. But I've discovered that the heart has no bounds. It continues to expand and expand and expand." — Hannah
"It's the grieving of the changes of the seasons of life and of friendships... the tapestry that you wove together still exists. It's not like it's gone or like it never happened." — Hannah
"I think the idea of it being categorical, right, it gives it room to be expansive. Yeah, and it gives it room it gives you room to grow as a person and not be bound to that point in time that you were really close to that friend in those ways." — Jaymie
"I have a tendency to cling, right when I really miss things or don't want them to end. I cling to them like they still exist, even though they're in the past and I’m in the present." — Jaymie