Finding Friends in Your Between Place: A Guide to Building Community During Life Transitions
Feeling lonely in a season of change? This guide helps you build real friendships when life shifts and community doesn’t come with it.
Finding Friends in Your Between Place
Building real community during seasons of change
Sometimes the hardest part of a life change isn’t the logistics — it’s the loneliness.
Maybe you moved.
Maybe you got married or had a baby.
Maybe your friends’ lives changed before yours did (or vice versa).
And suddenly you’re in a season where you don’t quite know where you fit anymore.
This guide was originally written for people who had just moved to a new city. But over the years, women have used it during all kinds of transitions — motherhood, marriage, breakups, career shifts — any season where life changes and the community you hoped for doesn’t automatically appear.
If that’s where you are, you’re not behind. You’re just in a between place.
What this guide will help you do
This isn’t about networking, small talk, or forcing yourself into awkward situations.
It’s a practical, low-pressure guide for building real friendships — even if you’re tired, introverted, or starting from scratch.
Inside, you’ll find:
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Simple, realistic ways to meet people and deepen connection
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Language for reaching out without feeling weird
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Permission to move at your own pace, without forcing anything
No homework. No hustle. No pretending to be someone you’re not.
This guide is for you if you:
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just moved
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became a mom
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got married
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feel left behind
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or woke up one day realizing you want more community than you have
You don’t need a personality overhaul.
You don’t need to “put yourself out there.”
You just need a place to start.
The thing is, I have wonderful friends today, but that wasn't always the case.
Through the years I’ve had mean friends, great friends, surfacey friends, and no friends. There have been seasons when I cried almost every single day because I was so lonely.
(Friendship can be so hard, right? Especially as an adult!)
When we moved to Nashville, I had to learn how to make friends all over again. And then I had to learn how to take those new friends and get to a place where we felt like each other’s people (instead of like an awkward 2nd date).
It took so much work and tears, but I learned so much about friendship that year. I was actually able to find and form amazing friendships that have made all the difference in my life.
If you are in this place today — if you’ve just moved, or your friend group is changing, or if your people are getting married and having kids, or if you’ve just never had the best friends you’ve wanted and you’re not even sure why…
I'm so happy to get to share this eBook with you.
It's called How to Make Friends in a New City and it's 10 intimidation-free steps to help you find your people in a new place or season of life.
These ten things helped me so much to make new friends, and I'd be so honored to share it with you!
If you are feeling lonely today, you are so not alone. Making friends can be so hard. It takes time and intentionality — but you can absolutely do those things, and I’m here to cheer you on as you do!
+ This 49-page workbook is a digital download and comes in a printable PDF format
This is a digital download, and so as soon as you add the book to your cart and check out, you'll be sent an email with a link where you can download your copy!
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