Seasons of Singleness with Rebecca Waterbury

An episode for all relationship statuses! Rebecca Waterbury and Alex speak candidly about the importance of friends during seasons of singleness, how to steward your single time well, how to balance jealousy, feedback, and self-doubt, as well as how to resolve and prevent conflict with open communication, the importance of honest friends & self-care, how to get through 2020, staying in touch through social media and being vulnerable. They also discuss how to intentionally create diverse relationships that help us grow. Becca is currently working in the financial space with a mission to liberate love for single people, deplete divorce and strengthen marriages through building strong financial foundations for families and individuals. You can find her on Instagram @rosecoloredlove.

Show notes:

• Intro to Rebecca Waterbury
• Becca’s mission: To celebrate love and lift up strong relationships
• Her experiences led her to work in the financial industry where she helps families and individuals build a really strong financial foundation
• Importance of living life with passion, mission, and purpose
• Social circle: Mom, Bestie/Roomie, and Boss Babes 
• Making friends from common interests/activities
• Importance of having friendships with people in different seasons of life to learn and grow from
• Balancing jealousy with being a supportive friend
• How to steward your single season by spending time with friends and doing what you love
• “The grass is greener where you water it” It’s time to invest in our grass
• Dangers of assuming how well other people are doing and being jealous of it
• Self-reflection and shifting our relationships and values through uncomfortable change
• Importance of relationships in surviving 2020. Friends are our lifeline- how we reconnect and strengthen friendships during this season.
• Photos are physical reminders of the people who love us and stand in our corner. 
• Maintaining evenness - asking “What’s going on with you?” too.
• Sharing the bad moments too & power of vulnerability- invites friends to check-in
• Importance of open and clear communication. “The power of making situations better relies on us…take the responsibility, be accountable,… talk about it”
• Becca’s story of Gorilla Glue & a growing moment
• Lessons from friends can be applied to our future romantic relationships
• Friends sometimes call us out, and help us process through things taking away our “luster” and “shine”
• Importance of self-care, processing, and pushing past fear 
• How Becca got her sparkle back
• True friends correct us out of love & tell us the truth- but it must be discerned. We also need to be open to receive the correction
• Becca’s innate capacity to love demonstrated by the Little Mermaid
• Becca’s new business and her heart’s mission to liberate love for single people, deplete divorce and encourage strong marriages through building strong financial foundations for families.
• Last thoughts: Be the kind of friend that helps people get to where you’ve gone, and also have friends above you to help you go where they are. Seek friendships with people who have what you have, and learn from them. Befriend those who want what you have so you can also pay it forward.

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