Wonderful message Betty. Thanks for sharing. I sure miss the CW sharing times
and all the good we get from all being together and participating in our fun
activities. Let’s hope 2021has some good times in store. Susan
On Dec 28, 2020, at 9:28 AM, Betty Zertuche (Redacted sender "zertuche1980"
for DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Subject: Fwd: Girlfriends are essential
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I just had to share this with my wonderful lady friends. It’s so true!
Don’t know what I’d do without you. Love you all! 💕 Betty
Girlfriends are essential!
A thought to share.....
"I just finished taking an evening class at Stanford. The last lecture was
on the mind-body connection--the relationship between stress and disease.
The speaker (head of psychiatry at Stanford) said, among other things, that
one of the best things that a man could do for his health is to be married
to a woman whereas for a woman, one of the best things she could do for her
health was to nurture her relationships with her girlfriends. At first
everyone laughed, but he was serious.
Women connect with each other differently and provide support systems that
help each other to deal with stress and difficult life experiences.
Physically this quality “girlfriend time" helps us to create more
serotonin--a neurotransmitter that helps combat depression and can create a
general feeling of well being. Women share feelings whereas men often form
relationships around activities. They rarely sit down with a buddy and talk
about how they feel about certain things or how their personal lives are
going. Jobs? Yes. Sports? Yes. Cars? Yes. Fishing, hunting, golf? Yes.
But their feelings?--rarely. Women do it all of the time. We share from
our souls with our sisters, and evidently that is very good for our health.
He said that spending time with a friend is just as important to our
general health as jogging or working out at a gym.
There's a tendency to think that when we are "exercising" we are doing
something good for our bodies, but when we are hanging out with friends, we
are wasting our time and should be more productively engaged--not true. In
fact, he said that failure to create and maintain quality personal
relationships with other humans is as dangerous to our physical health as
smoking! So every time you hang out to schmooze with a gal pal, just pat
yourself on the back and congratulate yourself for doing something good for
your health! We are indeed very, very lucky. Sooooo let's toast to our
friendship with our girlfriends. It's very good for our health."
