Friendships in Midlife
Episode 2 Season 4: Biz Cush on Friendship, Parts and Healing
Are your relationships changing as you reach mid-life? In this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, host Elizabeth Cush talks about our friendships and how they may change as we move through the healing process and grow into our authentic selves.
“Sometimes friendships, and partners, and our acquaintances shift and change over the years.”
Show Notes:
Have you thought about your friendships lately? Have they shifted as you’ve entered mid-life? Do the relationships you’ve had for a long time still enrich you, or do you finding yourself drawing away? Do you find yourself drawn to the same kinds of people, or are you looking for a different kind of friendship? In this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, host Biz Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., and a life coach for highly sensitive women, shares her thoughts about friendships and finding new friendships in mid-life. She also explores the intricate relationship between our wounded parts and the people in our lives, and how healing our parts can bring about changes in our friendships
Listen and learn:
The various reasons why friendships change as we go through life
Why we might feel the need to draw away from certain friends
Why we keep getting drawn to certain kinds of people and relationships
What happens when we get involved with people who re-open our old wounds
How our past relationships, especially in childhood, affect our current relationships
What our childlike parts need in order to heal
Why our old wounds won’t heal overnight
Why it’s important to have a supportive presence as we work on healing our wounded parts
Why we need to be gentle with ourself as we shed relationships that no longer meet our needs
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