Girls Support Girls is a club that was created by girls, for girls.
Girls Support Girls focuses on building a community of strong girls ready to take on the world. Whether a student joined to make friends, to learn crafts, to hear speakers, to watch movies, or enjoy snacks, Girls Support Girls offers a space for every girl on our campus.
On Friday, March 13th, during activity period, Girls Support Girls hosted a speaker for the ninth-grade girls in an assembly located in the Chapel. The speaker, Annie Mayfield, who is beloved by Girls Support Girls, had a heartfelt and very real message to share with every girl who was in that room.
Mayfield attended The Lovett School for middle school and high school, and also played tennis and ran track at Wofford College. She now works in technology sales, writes books, and hosts a podcast. Despite all of her successes, Mayfield said, “My heart really is just serving the person I once was, which was someone who was very insecure and anxious, and always feeling not good enough.”
During this assembly, Annie spoke to the girls about how our worth truly does come from God, and how it is needed for you to “receive Christ’s love for yourself in order to know what that feels like to give that to others.”
Mayfield really dove into the idea that you must love yourself fully before trying to love other people, as well as you must know that your worth comes from God and not the team you are on, the sport you play, the friends you have, the parties you get invited to, and so on. To fully live how God calls us to, you must come to terms with yourself first.
Mayfield also discussed how, especially in an environment like high school, it needs to be addressed how hard it is to live for the Lord. “We have to first encourage ourselves and others that it’s a very brave thing to choose to be a light in a dark world, and you have to be willing to be seen, which might make you weird and different,” Mayfield said. Especially as a community of girls, we must be willing to be the change and be the “light in the darkness.”
Girls Support Girls is a space where this light can be grown. By sponsoring this assembly, it is hoped that Mayfield’s inspiring message and the mission of Girls Support Girls will be spread, just to make the world at Marist and beyond just a little bit brighter.
