A Letter to the Woman Who Feels Alone // Sarah Swafford
When Sarah Swafford first started talking to college students about friendship, it was 2007. They were trying to figure out cellphones, dorm life, emotions, and virtue. Sixteen years later, Sarah is still talking about friendship—and it hasn’t gotten any easier with the rise of social media, smart phones, and a world pandemic.
Sarah fist came on the podcast way back in 2018 to talk about emotions and virtue. She’s back for another conversation about virtue, a brand new book called Gift and Grit that she just wrote with her husband, Swaff, and a deep dive into the topic of friendship, especially as you navigate changing seasons of life.
Whether you’re blessed with an incredible community of friends around you and you want to grow deeper in relationship with them, or you’re starting out in a new season of life and you’re hungry for authentic friendship, sister, this letter is for you.
Topics we talked about in this episode:
Sarah’s story as a Catholic woman
The story behind Gift and Grit: How Heroic Virtue Can Change Your Life and Relationships and what it was like for Sarah to write a book with her husband
What Środowisko is, what it looked like in the life of Saint Pope John Paul II, and what it means for us as Catholic women today
Why finding meaning in life isn’t enough and why we need grit, too
How to navigate friendship in changing seasons and how to be truly vulnerable with women you trust
Sarah’s three ingredients for healthy and holy friendship
How Sarah lives out the feminine genius in her daily life
Resources you should check out after listening to this episode:
Visit The Swafford’s website and get a signed copy of Gift and Grit
Lisa Cotter’s new book on femininity, Reveal the Gift—and my conversation with her about it on the Letters to Women podcast!
Sarah and I’s conversation on emotional virtue from back in 2018 on the Letters to Women podcast
Join us in bringing the newest Langr home with our adoption fundraiser
Pick up a copy of the Letters to Women book (and use the code LETTERS at checkout to receive 15% off your purchase!)
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