Everybody wants a village...
So this week I’ve been thinking a lot about friendship and connection. And how so many of my clients have talked about how important it is to them and how much they’re lacking it. Making friends as a kid was so much easier. You were forced into a room with a bunch of other kids and you had to make it work. Friendship by proximity, and by bonding over some really hard teenage years full of acne, awkward blunders in front of crushes, and some dodgy fashion choices. But then you get older. Those friendships start to fade. People begin relationships and drift off, they make friends with their work colleagues and it becomes harder and harder to arrange catch ups. Some friends become parents and others childfree. You send messages that are left on ‘read’, and sometimes you find yourself alone after making plans where no one showed up. And now that we’ve all experience a collective world trauma, we’ve learnt to distrust each other. We saw people break the rules, express opinions...
