The Importance of Feminine Friendship

Having friends to help you navigate life’s lessons and this journey is the key to bliss. Because as we’ve heard, ‘no man’s an island’ and the saying goes for women too. Perhaps even more so considering how we are built. We need communication, connections and camaraderie, especially when life gets tough. Sometimes I feel we are just more amenable to opening up to friends, whereas men have been conditioned to be more stoic. Needless to say, having friends is important to all of us…

Being that Mother’s Day is around the corner, I’m offering my friendship to you, especially if you’re feeling low. There’s nothing like that first Mother’s Day without your Mommy to feel overwhelming and perhaps have you feeling out of sorts. Because having a Mom there, even if you don’t talk with her much, is still having a Mom and it’s a bit like feeling orphan-ish when she’s gone.

So, we bond together. Those of us who are missing our Moms…we mother each other. We check in. We encourage. We support. We nudge. We help. We listen. We hold each other’s hands when needed. We cook and call…we do it all from a place of kindness, caring and sisterhood.

There’s a magic to midlife that sparks the recognition that we are all connected. There’s a bond there that soul to soul we recognize and we don’t make a huge fuss about it. We just quietly straighten her crown and help her move along this life journey.

PS I’m not saying that we don’t need the men in our lives as well…we do. It’s just a Mom and Daughter thing…especially around Mother’s Day…