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By Tayler Meade When I was praying about what to call my book, God kept bringing me back to a picture of the grass and the path. If you’ve ever been the friend on the outside, you probably know exactly what I mean. You’re the one who doesn’t quite have a place on the sidewalk, so you find yourself walking alongside in the grass. You’re the one who gets left behind when everyone else keeps moving. You’re the second-tier friend. The one who is still there, still smiling, still

Most of us grew up hoping for the same thing: that big, close-knit group of friends. The kind of friendships where you share everything, laugh until you cry, cry when life gets hard, and walk through all of life’s biggest moments together. The kind of circle where you never have to wonder if you belong or question whether you’re enough. We want to be chosen by other women. We want friendships that feel like home. So when that kind of friendship hurts, it hurts... When a frien

Have you ever walked up to a table and realized there’s no seat for you? I have, and I know that feeling a little too well. I was a freshman in high school and had recently switched to a different lunch period. I remember telling myself it would be fine because I knew a few people in that lunch, but when I got there, there wasn’t a seat for me. No one moved over. No one offered me a chair. There were a few awkward comments—“Oh shoot,” “I didn’t know Tayler had this lunch”—and