Pippa Evans Quotes

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene... For me, it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.

I don’t see it as pressure. Among friends we can get advice.

There's a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you're alone in what you're going through, and none of us are alone. We're all going through the same thing.

We are able to relieve stress by leaning on each other. We often hang out at our home, order takeout food, and talk openly about our feelings. We are all there for each other.

If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.

Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

If I'm having a really bad day, I always have a girlfriend - or even a guy friend - who I can call. They'll listen to me wallow for a minute and then be like, 'Okay, let's stop. Everything's great. Let's figure out how to fix whatever's bothering you.'

I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.

I haven't looked to my peers for advice because we're all going through the same thing. How do you ask your friends for advice when they're going through the exact same thing?

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.

My three best friends get me through everything: I need cute jeans, my kids are driving me crazy, I'm throwing a party, whatever. They keep me dialed in.

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.

I feel that if I'm going through something, I'm sure someone else is, too.

I just hope I reach out to people and connect to people in such a way that they continue to support what I do.

I believe we all grow because we share our experiences and our problems. We all have our intimate times. Why not share them?

It's one thing to talk to a vet about something, but when you're talking to a fellow rookie going through the same struggles you are, you kind of understand it - and you grow together like that.

When other people share their stories, even if it's a parent who is fighting it, even if it's a sibling who is fighting it, it really does create this strange sense of community and support.

I've a great group of people, a great family behind me all the way, all the time. You cannot underestimate that.

If I love Etta James, it's not just the voice, and it's not just the song, but it's the energy that connects me to her, so if she is strong, I can be strong, too, and if she is sad, I know I am not alone, or if she is joyous, I can connect with that joy.

The work is more than just about the amplification of survivors and quantifying their numbers. The work is really about survivors talking to each other and saying, 'I see you. I support you. I get it.'

I think we're always scared, but we have each other to lean on, so we're not being extremely vulnerable in front of the world by ourselves. We have each other.