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Welcome back to Friendship Therapy and this week we met Julia and Janine.

Julia and Janine are two gorgeous friends who met at primary school

and they've been through 25 years of friendship evolution since then.

If you haven't listened to the full episode yet,

you'll find it in the back catalogue of friendship therapy.

But each week I'll also be sharing some of those key therapeutic takeaways that come

up from the episodes in a Friendship Therapy bite-size episode like this with some Friendship Food for thought if you will so that you can

chew it over as you go about your daily lives. This week's theme quickly emerged to be

one of Yin and Yang. In fact, Janine referred to their

friendship as such and it became immediately apparent when we started talking that

these two ladies fill in for one another beautifully. So much so in

fact that when Janine left for university Julia's aversion to phone calls meant that

Janine would still dial in Julia's takeaway order from another city altogether.

If that's not friendship, I don't know what is.

But it made me think, because balance in friendship really is essential.

Complementing each other's strengths and weaknesses means that we bring the

permission, whether that's the permission of our energy and extra version, or the

permission of the comfort and calm if you're an introvert and offer acceptance. Equally it made me think that challenging each other's

learning edges makes for a really valuable friendship when we encourage one

another out of our comfort zones and in Janine's case persuading Julia to join

her for a destiny's child moment and take some risks that would see her having

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