AS WE TRY TO COPE WITH COVID WE ARE DEALING WITH STRESS, ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION AT LEVELS LIKE NEVER BEFORE... which is why we need our Crown Jewel "Sisters" more than ever!
The Head of Psychiatry at Stanford gave a speech on the
relationship between stress and disease. He commented 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 their personal lives but are more
than willing to discuss their jobs, sports, cars, fishing, hunting or golf. But
their feelings? Rarely. Women do it all 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. True! There's a tendency to think that when we
are "exercising" we are doing something good for our bodies, but when
we’re hanging out with friends, we’re wasting our time and should be more
productively engaged - not true. In fact, failure to create and maintain
quality personal relationships with other humans is as dangerous to our
physical health as smoking! Every time we get together we can pat ourselves on
the back and congratulate ourselves for doing something good for our health!
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