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Resilience
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Building Family Resilience
Can studying missionary families teach us about building resilience in our own families? Thrive Fellow, Abby Schmidt explains her findings.
Practices
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A Practice: Courageous & Curious Conversations toward Mutuality
When seeking mutuality in relationships, courageous and curious conversations are necessary. Here's a practice to guide you.
Practices
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Power Dynamics in Relationships
Power dynamics affect how we engage with our loved ones. Learn how to get curious and courageous to develop mutuality in relationships.
Love
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Because You Loved Me!
Thrive Fellow, Rebecca Baer, discusses the qualities of loving relationships and how to practice these.
Love
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I Want To Know What Love Is!
Thrive Fellow, Rebecca Baer, discusses the qualities of loving relationships and how to practice these.
Practices
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Raising Prosocial Kids
What conversations should we have with young people to help them develop? How do we encourage them to offer their gifts to the world?
Love
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What’s Love Got to Do with It? Possibly, Everything!
Thrive Fellow, Rebecca Baer, explains why loving relationships are central to thriving and the qualities we need to get and give love.
Christian
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Finding Joy in Silence
The spiritual practice of engaging silence might actually change your life. Guest blogger, Laura Murray, explains how.
Christian
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Shell-Shocked: The New Order of Easter
Dr. Pam King offers reflections on the shocking nature of the Easter story and how it reflects God's transformative love.
Emotions
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Good Grief: Why We Grieve & What Gets in the Way
Grieving allows us to process the emotions of a loss, accept change and transition in our lives, and adapt to, learn from, and grow into new ways of being.
Emotions
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Suffering in Parenthood
Parenting brings unique forms of suffering. How does accepting that we suffer help us?
Spirituality
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What is Spiritual Awareness?
Spiritual awareness is engaging in experiences and responding to God, nature, or universal spirit, or what psychologists identify as our source of transcendence.
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