With the Girls

Leave it to science to prove what we girls have known all along.....getting together with your girlfriends is good for your health.  Yup, it's true -- study after study shows it's as beneficial for you as exercise and eating right...but I find girlfriend gatherings so much easier to do. :)

I teach a workshop on moving from 'stressed to zest' and connecting with friends is one of the '12 habits' I recommend for doing so.  In fact, it's very close to the top of my list.

I love my husband.  I love my kids.  But when I'm with my girlfriends, I can just be me.  No role to play or lessons to teach or discipline to instill......when I'm with the girls, my spirit goes back to being 18 without a care in the world or schedule to keep.  Girlfriends are a magical remedy for all that's wrong in your world....just ask anybody who relies on them as much as I do mine.

A few years back, a handful of women and I started bi-annual girlfriend getaways.  We were two groups of friends connected by sisters who thought it would be fun to share a weekend camping trip together.  Fifteen years later, it's hard to tell who the real sisters are.  We've become one another's good for the soul sistas. :)  And I'm confident we'll be gathering for winter ski and summer camp trips for the rest of our lives -- 'cooler dancing' into the grave and smilin' the whole way.  And you better believe we'll be buying chotchkies for each other, talkin' in our top secret language that only we can decode, and emailing (now texting and Facebooking) leading up to and after our times together, like we've done so many times before.  You know how women are.....and we wouldn't have it any other way.