Friendships Do not Simply Occur!: The Information to Making a Significant Circle of GirlFriends
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This important go-to information reveals how ladies can improve their lives by creating worthwhile friendships in right this moment’s busy, cell world, from nationally acknowledged friendship knowledgeable and CEO of GirlFriendCircles.com.
Each girl is looking for a happier, more healthy, extra fulfilling life. Many notice the numerous function that an intimate, tightly knit circle of mates performs in making a extra fulfilling life, however with hectic schedules, frequent strikes, and life modifications, it’s extra essential than ever for girls to determine pure, significant friendships that can contribute to their general wellbeing.
In Friendships Don’t Simply Occur!, Shasta Nelson, friendship knowledgeable and CEO of GirlFriendCircles.com, reveals a very powerful confirmed steps, processes, and secrets and techniques important to establishing the 5 completely different ranges of friendships, or Circles of Connectedness, that girls—regardless of their age or relationship standing—are eager for in right this moment’s aggravating and cell tradition. This revolutionary, partaking information may also profit ladies who already really feel rooted to fabulous mates, with insightful ideas that can assist them keep and improve their present friendships.
Filled with sensible how-to ideas, enjoyable actions, guiding questions, and step-by-step directions, Friendships Don’t Simply Occur! highlights a number of areas of creating lasting friendships, educating ladies how you can: Consider their present circle of mates Acknowledge what sorts of mates they’re searching for primarily based on profession, pursuits, location, and relationship standing Create a prioritized friendship motion plan Discover extraordinary mates—the place to look and how you can strategy them Take initiative to jumpstart friendships and face fears of rejection Set up “frientimacy,” belief, and happiness via dialog and actions Keep significant friendships and decide which of them are worthwhile Excerpt from Friendships Do not Simply Occur:
There’s a lie on the market that actual friendship simply occurs.
Once I was new to San Francisco eight years in the past, I bear in mind standing at a café window on Polk Avenue watching a bunch of girls inside, huddled round a desk laughing. Just like the pet canine on the pound, I seemed via the glass, wishing somebody would decide me to be theirs. I had a cellphone filled with far-flung mates’ cellphone numbers, however I didn’t but know anybody I might simply sit and chuckle with in a café.
It hit me how very exhausting the friendship course of is. I’m an outgoing, socially snug girl with a protracted line of excellent friendships behind me. And but I stood there feeling very lonely. And insecure. And exhausted at simply the concept of how far I used to be from that actuality.
I knew I couldn’t simply stroll in there and introduce myself to them. “Hello! You appear like enjoyable ladies, can I be part of you?” I’d have been met with stares of pity. Nobody desires to appear determined, even when we’re. We don’t have platonic pick-up strains memorized. Flirting for mates appears creepy. Asking for her cellphone quantity like we’re going to name her up for a Saturday evening date is simply plain bizarre. All of the batting of my eyelashes wasn’t going to ship the fitting alerts.
And so I turned away from the scene of laughter and walked away.
No, sadly, friendships don’t simply occur.
We Worth Belonging
Friendships could not occur mechanically, however what we crave about them positive appears to! All of us wish to belong—that should be related to others is an inherent want. We dwell our whole lives making an attempt to slot in, be recognized, entice acceptance, and expertise intimacy. We desperately wish to have others care about us. This e book is about that starvation. And extra pointedly, it’s about listening to it and studying how you can fulfill it.
Writer : Turner; Illustrated version (February 12, 2013)
Language : English
Paperback : 254 pages
ISBN-10 : 1618580140
ISBN-13 : 978-1618580146
Merchandise Weight : 13.8 ounces
Dimensions : 6.19 x 0.69 x 8.97 inches
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Sonjastwin –
Wish Everyone Would Read This
If you’re one of those extroverts that is still having weekly girls nights with all your sorority sisters or with your Moms’ club and there just aren’t enough hours in the day for all your social activities, then this probably isn’t the book for you. But for the rest us, it’s pretty valuable. Personally, I’m a 40-something who had good friends growing up and into my 20s, but then I moved across country to a city where I didn’t know a soul. Twice. Combine that with a job that requires you to put in 60 hour weeks and to travel regularly and you wake up one day and realize that you’ve got a bunch of acquaintances, but no close friends. It’s a recipe for loneliness.While it seems some people don’t like the idea of the five circles of friendship, I think that was probably my favorite part. It made so much sense to me and explained why, when I thought I’d made good friends at work, those relationships never lasted after one of us moved on to the next job. Those situations often left me crushed and feeling like something was wrong with me. This book made me see that this was not uncommon and explained the ways in which I’d failed to expand that friendship in ways that might have allowed it to live on past the commonality of working in adjoining cubes.This book also gives you a framework for expanding friendships beyond the casual stage if you feel that’s something you lack in your life (E.g., got plenty of people in your life that you might have cup of coffee with or share a joke on Facebook with, but not one that you could ask to pick you up at the airport or at the dentist when you’ve just had root canal and are still under anesthesia? Then you need to expand your friendships!). It helps me understand why this can be a process that takes such a long time. That’s important, because if you understand how much connection you need to deepen the relationship and you recognize that most of your casual friendships have you getting together *maybe* every couple of months (From what I’ve observed, exceedingly common among 30 and 40-somethings when kids, husband, and job usually take priority over friendship), then you recognize that it’s not you, it’s this crazy over-scheduled world we live in that has kept relationships with people you’ve “known” for years at such a superficial level. And knowing that helps you gain the strength to hang in there and keep trying.All in all, I’m glad I’ve found this book. I may not connect with every single thing in it, but I do with most. And there are precious few books out there on this topic that I’ve found as useful. I’m definitely putting what I’ve learned to use. This is a book that I’ll keep coming back to.
Lynn Abate-Johnson –
Friendship book sheds light of connectivity
Shasta Nelson’s book, Friendships Don’t Just Happen, sheds light on something I took for granted AFTER that awkward time changing schools in elementary and then again in High School. I like the way Shasta brought out many different types of friendships, and also that it’s totally cool to weave in and out of certain relationships as life changes shift our circumstances. For those who are entrenched in solid female friendships, and for those who struggle with it for any reason, this book is a light and a pleasure to share with others. I bought many copies, and I’m gifting them to friends around the U.S. One friend in Florida, a best friend of mine since 1975, was delighted to hear about the book and Shasta’s website for connecting girlfriends because she is alone now, after a divorce and grown kids, so although she wouldn’t normally have trouble making new friends, her circumstances (living in a new area alone) make her a perfect candidate for GirlfriendCircles, Shasta’s website. Thank you, Shasta, for bringing more connectedness and “friendtimacy” to our world (LOVE that new term!).
D Adair –
Really wonderful and insightful book for women in all stages of friendship
This book is simply lovely. My advance copy arrived last week, and I was so happy to realize that this finished book is even better than I had expected (I’ve been following Girlfriend Circles and Shasta’s book journey for a while now). Shasta isn’t just a friendship expert giving helpful definitions, how-to advice, research and framing language–although she does do all of that. She is an enormously insightful guide whose warmth, depth, and insights seep off the page. It’s clear that prior to her work with women and friendship, she was a pastor. Clearly she is combining her calling and strengths in her friendship work. The chapters on vulnerability and forgiveness are up there with books I’ve read by other incredible life teachers like Marianne Williamson and Martha Beck. I was comforted, challenged, inspired and grown by this book–by lessons like this one on pg. 189, “Our goal is peace and happiness and our only way there is through forgiveness. There is no greater skill to possess, no more meaningful choice to be made, no further place to grow our maturity than in the moment when we are provoked to forgive.” It’s this depth and soul-level work that looks both inward and outward to our relationships with others that makes this book so helpful and meaningful.
Amazon Customer –
Friendship and Community from the Inside Out
Don’t be fooled by the bubblegum-pink cover! Shasta Nelson goes deep into the subject of female friendships, and the picture ain’t always pretty. This book encourages readers who crave more connection and “frientimacy” (her word for the profound closeness that can develop between girl friends) to examine the misconceptions, insecurities and excuses that get in the way of this goal. In a culture where at least 95% of every “self-improvement” shelf focuses on how to get it right with our lovers, Nelson’s insights about our platonic bonds–which, she takes care to remind us, sometimes end up outlasting marriages, jobs and other long-term commitments–are sorely needed. While she makes no bones about the hard work, dedication and humility required of those who value friendship and connection, she also writes with sensitivity, humor and gentle eloquence about the rewards that await us on the other side.
elena santini –
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ShopMyStyle –
There are many books out there that uplift you when you’re feeling down but never has a book spoken to me directly like it was written specifically for me! I’ve of course been uplifted but more important I feel better armed with tools to go into the world and build that community of friends that I’ve been dreaming of for so long but never thought it possible. I’ve also now learned what I’ve been doing wrong in my friendships and now know how I’m going to fix. God bless Shasta Nelson for writing this wonderful book!
Nick Founder –
I am writing my own book FINDING TRUE FRIENDS – for Friendships to work you have to really want IN (nickfounder.com) and I agree with much of the content in this book. I like how the author dared to write in the subjective voice
David J Warden –
Once you get past the San Francisco stuff this is quite a good practical handbook on friendship. For me the book is a bit too rambling and anecdotal. All of her girlfriends are FABULOUS! I really had to persevere with it and it’s annoying that it is only addressed to women as so many books on friendship are. Doesn’t she have any male friends? But Shasta is a life coach and the book contains plenty of practical suggestions and wisdom. Her YouTube videos are also worth a look. I am running a friendship course which is why I persevered with it.
jacqui –
Author, claims there is no such thing as ‘evil’ friends/acquaintances…I have news for you, they can be found everywhere; those looking for ‘friends’ NEED to be aware of this, and what to do!I wouldn’t recommend her book, maybe she this woman has been extremely lucky in making friends/acquaintance, I don’t know.Other books, I have read on the same topic, have warnings (and how to handle) ‘toxic’ friends, and ‘frienemies’, not this one.