Across The Pond with Emily - 'our friendship can vote but not rent a car'

It is really freakin hard to miss your friends. Especially when you have been friends for over 20 years and they live in another country during a pandemic. In this episode on H2BH, I sit down with my best friend and one of my most favorite people in the whole wide world, Emily Smith. She talks about life in the U.K., how hard it is to miss your family during a crisis, and we talk about how a family goes way deeper than blood. We also share a lot of stories, including the origin of our "fun" tattoos on our fingers! Family is love. Friends are love.

Imagine meeting someone who even understood the dustiest corners of your mixed-up soul. I am, once again, so acutely aware of how “temporary” it all is, our precious time together. And yet, the bonds we co-create here on earth feel so ancient as we come and go, weaving in and out of the “oh-so-familiar places — and faces.”

Especially the ones that remind us we are here, and we are alive. Someone who will see in me a kindred spirit, and make me believe that souls do travel in packs. And that someone will awaken within an ancient truth, that real friendship has no beginning or end — and can never really die. That someone will easily pick up where we left off and become in a holy instant, an instant friend, no matter how far away.

I love you, Emily. Thank you for being my family forever.