Rosalyn Carlette

Have you ever wondered if your secrets you shared with a good friend were safe?

During the friendship?

What about after the friendship ended?

The friendship vault is where secrets should remain, safe and secure.

Did you know that ethics is a part of friendship?

I never thought about it until friendships ended. 💔

How do you see ethics as a part of a good friendship?

When Friendship Isn’t Forever Naming the emotional storm, we are rarely prepared for

How do you deal with something that's not supposed to happen?

Many women have been taught that best friends are forever and when it's not it blindsides you.

This article shines a little light on friendship grief.

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I Miss Who I Used to Be I miss her.

There's a specific grief in losing a former version of yourself.

No one prepares you for that.

We talk about grieving people.
We talk about grieving relationships.
We talk about grieving careers.

We don't talk about grieving version of you.

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How Do I Surrender? And Not Give Up

I'm just learning that surrendering is ok and it's not giving up.
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Journey of Friendship Grief

There is a specific grief in losing a former version of yourself.

No one prepares you for that.

We talk about grieving people.
We talk about grieving relationships.
We talk about grieving careers.

But we don’t talk about grieving identities.

Can you extend grace to yourself in that season?

Friendships are constantly changing and all information invites you to take a closer look through the kaleidoscope and see the beautiful shifts of you that are ingredients of your becoming.

Friendships are constantly changing and all information invites you to take a closer look through the kaleidoscope and see the beautiful shifts of "you" that are ingredients of "your becoming".

Am I a Tear? I’ve cried so much that I started to wonder if I’m not just shedding tears …

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Have you ever not recognized your life?
Have you ever cried so much you wondered if you had become a tear?
Have you ever shed so many tears you questioned your own composition?

What if tears are not failure?
what if they are proof of something deeper?

What if they are ingredients of becoming?

Friendship Grief - Definition & How it Feels 💔

Friendship Grief is real and it sometimes hurts more than a romantic breakup! I didn’t have the words I needed to make sense of it, so I created them. Language to give voice to the experiences that we collectively hold as women.