Nurturing Your Relationships
- Reach out to your best friend who always makes you feel better.
- Call an old friend who you haven’t talked to in a long time.
- Have deep conversations with family members.
- Expand your circle of friends by going to community activities that align with your interests.
- Create “families of choice” if your own family is unable to meet your needs.
- Seek group therapy if you feel misunderstood by friends and family.
- Join a community sports team, choir, or other similar group.
- Talk to strangers.
- Put your smart phone on silent and away and have a long conversation with yourself or a close friend!
Insights:
Romans 8:26 ESV
- Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
Mark 12:31 ESV
- The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
