We're sooooo good for each other!!!!
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On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:25 AM, Susan Forbes<susan4bes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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."
