Friendship and Personal Growth

I’ve just returned from London this week where I was training men at how to understand and communicate to women, and I have to say I’m overloaded on testosterone.

Women have the natural instinct to bond with and help each other in a very different way than males do. In a way, a woman alone is never alone. She lives in a world of sisters. It's wonderful that women are so tied to each other and supportive of each other.  What is the source of this sisterhood, this bond of trust among women? It stands to reason that when we say that a person "trusts" someone or something - like their spouse, or significant other, or their best buddy, or their job status - they are most often referring to what is happening right now.

These days, doctors are pretty effective at treating depression of the "industrial grade" kind - the clinical condition called Major Depression. But what about those depressions you suffer of which might be more appropriately called "a slump," or "being in a rut," or simple, ordinary sadness?  Those don't feel good either, and are far more common than a major, diagnosable illness. It turns out there really is a more detailed "how-to" method to getting over them than we commonly think of in the word, "motivation."