Grown-Up Girlfriends by Carrie Oliver

Grown-Up Girlfriends by Carrie Oliver

Friends for life
You weren't meant to walk through life alone . . .
but how do you find faithful friends who will make the journey with you?

Finding new friends to enrich your life isn't as simple as it may seem. Join Erin Smalley and Carrie Oliver as they explore our God-given longings for friendship and offer practical insights into building strong, rewarding relationships that endure-even during seasons of conflict and change.

You'll learn the secrets of developing healthy grown-up friendships and avoiding volatile, insecure ones. Using personal anecdotes and scriptural principles, Erin and Carrie explain the ten attributes of grown-up friends and offer ideas on how you can develop these qualities in yourself.

Grown-Up Girlfriends will help you: identify potential soul-mate friends mentor others set healthy boundaries resolve conflicts constructively support a friend in crisis practice healthy forgiveness and reconciliation let go of destructive friendships . . . or avoid them altogether

This candid look at the challenges and rewards of becoming a grown-up girlfriend was written with women like you in mind because
Being a grown-up is hard . . . but it's easier in the company of friends.

Erin Smalley, a clinical psychologist with a master's degree, works for Focus on the Family. She is the coauthor of Crazy Little Thing Called Marriage and a renowned conference speaker. She and her husband, Dr. Greg Smalley, live in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with their four children.