Girl Group Confidential: The Ultimate Guide to Starting, Running and Enjoying Your Own Womens’ Group

I’m hoping this will be useful for the Red Hat Chapter I try to organise.

With the book came a lovely letter and I would really like you to see what she wrote about menopause :

This is a time when we seek to re-educate ourelves, or move into a new career. It is a time to re-evaluate relationships in our lives. In this time we have come to acknowledge our strengths and rely on them. We also are familiar with our weaknesses and are more willing to work with and change them into new resources in our lives.

Transitions are as natural as breathing or walking from one room to the next. Each one brings us to a new place in our evolution and growth. Therefore menopause brings a woman into the most powerful time in her life, free from worries of pregnancy and all the responsibilities which bringing a new life into being entails

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I’ll try and keep that in mind the next time I want to kill a shop assistant.

Girlfriends

–girlfriends give you advice when you ask, though sometimes you keep it and sometimes you don’t.

–girlfriends still love you even when they don’t approve of your choices.

–girlfriends are there for you in an instant when hard times come.

–girlfriends listen when you lose a job or a friend.

–girlfriends listen when your children break your heart.

–girlfriends listen when your parents’ minds and bodies fail.

Celebrate the girlfriends in your life and pass this on