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When Her Win Feels Like Your Loss: Navigating Friendship and Envy | The Friendship Project
This episode of The Friendship Project explores the complex, often unspoken emotion of envy in female friendships, specifically addressing the pain felt when a friend’s success highlights your own stagnation. Host Kari Hearn invites listeners to sit with the discomfort of seeing someone you love achieve milestones—like promotions, engagements, or creative wins—while you feel stuck in your own journey. This is not about jealousy as a moral failing, but rather a deep, human grief for the potential and dreams that feel out of reach. If you have ever scrolled past a friend’s good news and felt a…
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