Wow! It feels like I haven’t written in years. Honestly, since the last time I wrote for this blog, months have been feeling like years. When I got the urge to write again, I knew I wanted to address this strange absence, to explain to y’all why I haven’t been writing and what’s been the root cause of my procrastination. But as I started to brainstorm, I realized that I needed to share what’s inspired me to write again: critical friend check-ins (CFCs). For the purposes of this post, I am defining a critical friend check-in as the act of showing true empathy and concerns for a friend holistically, in…