I always appreciate it when people tell the truth as they see it and don’t sugarcoat or beat around the bush. I trust that raw honesty and find myself reaching out to the truth-tellers when I need advice and support. Liz Pryor, today’s guest on the Cracking Open podcast is one of these incredible truth-tellers. She is the published author of two books: What Did I Do Wrong?, a book of advice on female friendship, as well as her provocative and moving memoir, Look at You Now, which promptly became a Chicago Tribune bestseller. Liz has blessed the TEDx stage and appeared on Good Morning America as their advice guru on family and friendships. Her work has been featured in Redbook, Elle, Forbes, Good Housekeeping, and People, and she contributed to the anthology, 65 Things to Do at 65, alongside Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda. Join Liz and me as…
Six Questions with author Liz Pryor https://onyourfeetfoundation.org/education-outreach/newsroom.html/article/2020/11/19/six-questions-with-author-liz-pryor
The advice: Four tips to help you handle the end of a friendship Liz Pryor is a relationship expert and the author of What Did I Do Wrong? What To Do When You Don’t Know Why The Friendship Is Over. She shared this advice with Woman’s Hour… 1. Write it out Sometimes just writing down all the feelings you have around the painful experience of a friend deciding to dump and end things can begin to help soothe the soul. Write everything you’re feeling and experiencing in a letter. You can decide whether to send it, file it away, or even burn it. Just getting it all out can begin to help. If you’ve been completely blindsided with no explanation at all, a letter to your friend acknowledging the ending can be empowering. If she can’t find the nerve to state what has happened, you can and should state the reality…
Listener Week: Women and trades, Afghanistan, Stealthing, Dumping a friend https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000z01g
Incredible IG LIVE book club interview with the amazing Holly Furtick talking all things —-Look At You Now. https://www.instagram.com/tv/B9FQIskhXOv/?igshid=ugsekegh04qg
Not until I had my own kids did I realize what a feat my parents pulled off in getting me and my six siblings around the dinner table. Every night all nine of us sat, laughed, bickered and questioned the hell out of our parents. Even though I have only three children, I saw early on that that beloved ritual was never going to make it into our daily lives—my kids’ schedules were just too packed and disparate. My work-around—my way for us to actually engage as a family—I discovered one day in bumper-to-bumper L.A. traffic. At the time, my kids were young enough not to complain about all the time spent in the car. As we inched toward some faraway baseball field, the three of them talked about their days, laughed, bickered—and invited me in on all of it. I was transported back to my childhood dinner table. Thanks…