How to Understand Your Girlfriend’s Health Problems | Cherie Burbach, Guest Blog
September 7, 2011 – 6:59 am
Talk about great girlfriend advice! Girlfriend Cherie Burbach shows us the “how to’s” to being a friend with someone with a chronic illness.
In this great guest blog in honor of International Women’s Friendship Month (aka: #FriendshipMonth), a girlfriend shares how to be a better friend to a friend dealing with a chronic illness …
She looks fine. She smiles. She seems happy. But inside, she is suffering.
Maybe she has diabetes, fibromyalgia, asthma, arthritis, depression, or any one of the diseases you may not even know your girlfriend has because there aren’t outward signs. How can you support her if you really don’t know what she’s dealing with?
For people with no health problems at all, it’s hard to understand when someone is sick. I can tell you that as a Type 1 diabetic, there are numerous times that people make assumptions about my disease. Our girlfriends have the power to make Read More »
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By Judi
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Posted in Be a Better FRIEND, Girlfriend Advice and Reviews, Health and Fitness
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Tagged #friendshipmonth, About.com, Cherie Burbach, chronic desease, Diabetes, food issues, friend, friendship, friendship month, girlfriend, guest blog, health, health issues, helping a friend
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Fitness Friends | or … Girlfriends who’ve Got Your Back!
May 5, 2011 – 3:30 pm
Do your girlfriends help you reach your potential? Do they encourage you to live your best life? (Or is that just Oprah and Gayle?!)
Personally, I’m so blessed by the support and encouragement that my friends offer me, that I can’t imagine how I’d get by without it!
A friend of mine, the magnificent Monica McGee, is on a journey. A 99 day journey to ‘fine!‘ She’s taking control of her life and concentrating on getting healthy and fit over the course of three months. And, of course, she is sharing it with her Read More »
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By Girlfriendology
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Posted in Be a Better FRIEND, Girlfriend Advice and Reviews, Health and Fitness
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Tagged 99 days to fine, fitness, fitness friends, get healthy, girlfriends, health, Monica McGee, women's health, Workout
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Healthy Trends: Female Friendship | Benefits of Girlfriends
February 19, 2011 – 4:02 pm
Funny. I received an email telling me the benefits of female friendship recently. Me! The cheerleader for girlfriends, the founder of Girlfriendology.
I love that the benefits of girlfriends is a trending topic. In fact, the email presented quite a few excerpt from research and reports including this from “Relationships Improve Your Odds of Survival by 50 Percent, Research Finds” Science Daily, 7/28/2010
“Social connections – friends, family, neighbors or colleagues – improve our odds of survival by 50 percent. Here is how low social interaction compares to more well-known risk factors: Equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day, equivalent to being an alcoholic, more harmful than Read More »
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Love how girlfriends celebrate together (The Genesis Today trip)
January 31, 2010 – 2:15 pm
Who do you call when you have good (or bad) news? 
Me? Usually I call my husband then I call my girlfriends. (Admittedly, sometimes I call the girls first!) I feel blessed with amazing friends who aren’t jealous when great things come my way and who know I’m there for them as well for good or bad news.
Well, this week I was thrilled to make some of those calls where my girlfriends and I celebrated together when I was announced the winner of the Genesis Today “Genesis of a Great Idea” social media contest. (Actually, I think my girlfriends may have been more excited than even I was!) Read More »
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Enlist Your Friends to Make Your Resolutions Stick
January 12, 2010 – 6:10 pm
As girlfriends we want each other to live our best life, right?
Well, that probably also means living a happy, healthy life so we’re focusing on girlfriend advice for fitness in January. And we’ve got a great girlfriend to share with you! Stepfanie will be our guest this week on our Friday, 2:00pmEST BlogTalkRadio show – listen in! (And you’ll have a change to win one of five books that we talk about below!) Thanks for sharing this guest blog and a whole bunch of girlfriend inspiration … Read More »
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Posted in Be a Better FRIEND, Health and Fitness, Podcasts/BlogTalkRadio Interviews
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Tagged dailyspark, exercise, fitness, health, new years resolutions, Sparkpeople, sparkpeople cookbook, stepfanie, the spark, Women
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Girlfriends & Making Healthy Choices
October 9, 2009 – 11:04 am
Girlfriend – What did you have for breakfast this morning?
You did have breakfast, didn’t you?! How many times did you workout or walk this week? Did you spend time with your girlfriends? How are you sleeping?
As friends we care. We want our friends to be around forever and live healthy, full lives and that starts with making healthy choices. Our friends’ health is important to us, as ours is to them. That’s what we do – we look out for and care about each other. Read More »
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Red, Pink & Blue
June 19, 2009 – 5:14 am
We girlfriends have to look out for each other – right?
That includes looking out for each other’s health. Girlfriends Candy (Spa for Diabetes) and Amy (Cincy Chic) have created a fabulous event for women Read More »
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Girlfriendology BlogTalkRadio interview with LIV LANE, from ChoosingBeauty.com
June 5, 2009 – 3:12 pm
Want to be inspired? Wonder if there is beauty all around and you’re not seeing it?
Then you definitely need to listen in to this interview with the amazing, inspiring LIV LANE! Liv went from a busy corporate career to a new mom dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Read More »
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Kroger June Dairy Month!
June 2, 2009 – 8:45 pm
As a girlfriend, we look out for each others’ health – ya know?!
Well, this girlfriend (aka: me) and very possibly you probably don’t consume as much calcium as a healthy body needs. (My mother/aunts have osteoporosis Read More »
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Girlfriendology BlogTalkRadio guest ELLEN SHUMAN, emotional eating coach
May 29, 2009 – 4:05 pm
Do you spend too much time thinking about food?
Does food serve as a distraction from uncomfortable moments in your life? If so, emotional eating may be your way of avoiding emotional discomfort. (A focus on food diverts our attention from anything we’d rather not think about.) Read More »
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