If you’re on the lookout for new music, and want to give your support to female artists, now (and always) is the perfect time to do so! For decades, all-female groups have made an impact on the world in general, and music in particular. The article, Leaders of the Pack: A History of Girl Groups, takes…
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Read Any Good Books (On Women’s Friendships) Lately?
As we rush around over many busy days and weeks, there’s often little time to just stop and immerse ourselves in some else’s story. And sometimes, there is nothing — absolutely nothing — more satisfying than settling in with a good book. It’s just a little getaway you give to yourself. And whether it’s in…
Supporting Friends Over the Holidays
Supporting your friends this season is probably – no, definitely – the most important gift you can give them for the holidays. So we’ve come up with four ways to make this season special for your chosen family. 1. Friendsgiving Creating your own holiday traditions with friends is a fun way to include everyone in…
Using Love Language to Prioritize Friendships
How do we communicate our appreciation for the friends in our lives? As life gets busy and schedules no longer match up, we don’t always have the opportunity in person to show we care, but we have to find new ways to prioritize these relationships in times of stress. We’ve been thinking a lot recently…
If a Friendship Doesn’t Take Off
You know the feeling. You’ve become part of a group of friends who get together regularly, and there are plans in the works for dinner, drinks, a day trip, etc. It sounds good at the time but, as the day approaches, you decide to bail at the last minute. And, it’s not the first time…
Turning Conversation Into Friendship
We all know it can be hard to turn words into actions. But, when it comes to making new friendships, it’s necessary to go from conversations, to hanging out, to then becoming better friends with those around you. One concrete way of doing this is to simply ask them to hang out and spend time…
Helping a Friend Through Hard Times
When your friend is going through a hard time, it can be difficult to understand the best way to support them. They might open up to you and in trying to relate through personal experience (as we sometimes find ourselves doing), you can push them away by seeming self-absorbed. Recently, we’ve realized that,for different situations,…
Having 100’s of Friendships: Quantity vs. Quality
One of the consistently fun and enlightening aspects of spotting topical and interesting content for our Project BFF audience is discovering how frequently scientists and researchers study the unique characteristics and social impacts of friendship. And, we’re fairly confident that we’ve only located the tip of the scientific iceberg on this kind of information! This…
Do You Know It’s Over?
When there hasn’t been a big blowout, a fight through tears followed by a “never hit me up ever again,” how do we know that a friendship is over? Sure, we grow apart as we get older and our priorities change, even just as we make new friends that we feel closer to, but does…
Anxiety Alert: Making New Friends Edition
Everyone experiences anxiety at some point in their life. It’s a primitive emotion, similar to fear, and its job is to help us take care of ourselves. We may feel anxious before a big job interview or a date or a test. It’s a temporary feeling and its role in those instances is to help us prepare….