This essential go-to guide reveals how women can enhance their lives by creating valuable friendships in today's busy, mobile world, from nationally recognized friendship expert and CEO of GirlFriendCircles.com.

Every woman is searching for a happier, healthier, more fulfilling life. Many realize the significant role that an intimate, tightly knit circle of friends plays in creating a more fulfilling life, but with hectic schedules, frequent moves, and life changes, it's more important than ever for women to establish natural, meaningful friendships that will contribute to their overall wellbeing.
In Friendships Don't Just Happen!, Shasta Nelson, friendship expert and CEO of GirlFriendCircles.com, reveals the most important proven steps, processes, and secrets vital to establishing the five different levels of friendships, or Circles of Connectedness, that women--no matter their age or relationship status--are longing for in today's stressful and mobile culture. This revolutionary, engaging guide will also benefit women who already feel rooted to fabulous friends, with insightful principles that will help them maintain and enhance their current friendships.
Full of practical how-to tips, fun activities, guiding questions, and step-by-step instructions, Friendships Don't Just Happen! highlights several areas of developing lasting friendships, teaching women how to:

• Evaluate their current circle of friends
• Recognize what types of friends they are seeking based on career, interests, location, and relationship status
• Create a prioritized friendship action plan
• Find extraordinary friends--where to look and how to approach them
• Take initiative to jumpstart friendships and face fears of rejection
• Establish "frientimacy," trust, and happiness through conversation and activities
• Maintain meaningful friendships and determine which ones are worthwhile

Author: Shasta Nelson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Turner
Published: 02/12/2013
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781618580146


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/11/2013

About the Author
Shasta Nelson is a nationally recognized friendship expert. She is the Founder and CEO of GirlFriendCircles.com, the only online community that matches new friends offline by connecting local women in cities across the U.S. She has been featured as a friendship expert on "The Today Show, ""The Early Show" and in "The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, Martha Stewart Radio, Essence, Parents, More, Redbook, " and "Glamour, " among others. Her current book, "Friendships Don't Just Happen!, " is the culmination of years of proven success from her work at GirlFriendCircles.com.
Shasta is also a nationally acclaimed public speaker, most recently for Tory Johnson's Spark & Hustle Tour in Chicago and at Savor the Success in San Francisco. She regularly hosts Speed-Friending events in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, where she facilitates local women getting to know each other and inspires them with her book.