Generally, whoever cared for and nurtured you, rather your mom, dad, or extended family, we all bored a foundation of love and trusted someone. However, as we move through adult life, we must decide whether or not those essential instructions ultimately work for us.

Today we explore the foundation of what we've learned and how to move forward,

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This year we're showing up more authentically and staying true to ourselves. We're focused on the people and places that we feel liked, loved, and never tolerated. Raise your hand if you understand.  Life is too short not to be with the ones you love and the feeling is mutual.

As Your Girlfriend Next Door & Friendship Coach, I want you to know I'm proud of everything you've accomplished this year. You are here! You have survived, and you are thriving.  We can all proclaim, "It' a new you in '22!" So say it with me, "It' a new you in '22!"  

Put all fears aside and thrive!

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This discussion is food for thought and an open and honest conversation on life and experience.  

Looks at focusing on smaller circles of friendship.

It's a new season! Listen up... It's dismissal season. Let's focus on our small circles. The friends who give us balance, joy, and love.  It's ok to take away those who are draining, not helping you focus on positivity or your goals in life, dismiss and move forward.  

Friendship Coach Andrea Smoak and Stephanie Cortese of the "That's for Company" podcast discuss multi-layers of girlfriends. What started as an organic conversation ended in a teachable moment on friendship. How friendships start, how we learn to be friends, and how to maintain friendships.
 

Per The Washington Post-In theory, a vacation with close friends — known as a friendcation — sounds like a great idea. But while you might enjoy someone’s company over dinner, on the tennis court or while cheering on children from the soccer sidelines, a getaway with the same person or people could be a recipe for disaster. Interests, the goal of the trip, budgets and tolerance for togetherness all factor into the outcome.

Friendcations are on the rise in the experience of Krishnan Menon, founder and CEO of the Los Angeles-based marketing company Phenomenon, and several other travel specialists contacted for this story. Menon believes the trips’ popularity is driven, in part, by social media. Groups post images and stories of trips with friends, and others “then want to recreate those moments with their own friend groups or use them as a mechanism for reconnection with distant friends,” he says.

But while there’s a lot of potential for things to go awry on friendcations, that doesn’t mean that they can’t be done. Here are nine tips on how to have a friendcation that’s memorable for all the right reasons.

Talk honestly before even agreeing to vacation together. This is key so that you can get a better understanding of each other's travel style and decide whether it makes sense to take the trip in the first place, says Roberta Long-Kelleher, a travel consultant with Protravel International in New York, who has planned dozens of trips for groups of friends.

Today I wanted to share my heart. With the state of the world we have to lend each other grace.  It's important to be patient with your friends. Learn to read their energy.  Learn to be ok with simply being ok. It's important to allow friendships to breath. As we all know breathing gives of life and balance.  Much like most species or plant we must feed, give water, and allow light for them to flourish. This serves true in friendships and relationships too. We must give them what they need to allow them to grow. Again, be patient with you love ones, allow them to have what they need without you getting into your feelings.

I dedicate this episode to every soul that is going through torment or loss. 

We are taking on the challenge to getting past the hurt in a relationship and moving to the other side of happiness, clarity, and understanding.  Join the conversation as we explore what to do when we've exhausted everything within us.

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Eventually our schedules work around children's schools and sports schedules, plus have their own work schedules, and some adults take on caregiver roles for their parents. Managing the day-to-day family unit is tough enough, let alone trying to find time to squeeze in a social life and friendships seems impossible. It's evident that making and keeping friends as an adult becomes harder and harder. Let's talk about it. -Friendship Coach, Andrea Smoak

Breaking up with a friend can feel worse than splitting up with your partner—at least after a union ends, you’ve got your girl or guy to turn to. And while everyone acknowledges the trauma of romantic breakups, people rarely talk about the feelings after a platonic fallout.

It's been said your brain doesn’t know the difference between a romantic or platonic relationship. A breakup is a breakup. There was intimacy and trust, and then there wasn’t. It takes time to deal with the devastation of losing someone you always thought you’d have by your side.

Surviving a best friend breakup isn’t easy, but here’s how to start the process.

It's Your Girlfriend Next Door with a new episode! This week we're talking about how friendships and relationships start and what we should look for.  It's important for us all to know what we really desire before starting any relationship.  What energy are you putting out, and what are you receiving?  

Let's chat about the best ways to garner what you want, from the people and situations you surround yourself with.

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Welcome to the neighborhood....Friendship Coaching

Is a place of fun and refuge to chat all things friendship, life, love, marriage, work, relationship, and more. 

As your Friendship Coach, I’m here to support and partner with you on achieving your life goals. I’m your soundboard and confidante here to assist and help you resolve what’s blocking you from becoming your best self and living a life you love. 

I’m here to offer sobering advice on friendship, life, love, and everything in-between. We explore friendship’s ups and downs, and how to come out better on the other side.

Your Girlfriend Next Door, Friendship Coaching Philosophy: 

Utilizing self-knowledge to enhance empathy and understanding and to develop goals for self-improvement in friendships, relationships, partnerships and personal arenas of growth.