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Thrive Book List Purpose Edition
Purpose is at the heart of thriving and an outcome of healthy spirituality. Our fall Thrive Book List suggests great guides for discovery.
Gratitude
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Want more Love and Goodness? Savor Gratitude
Gratitude is one of the most powerful ways to attend to goodness. The goodness of gifts, the goodness of givers, and the goodness of ourselves as receivers.
Practices
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Take a Breath: How Breath Work Provides a Portal to Our Spiritual Lives
Paying attention to the pattern of our breath is a spiritual practice with power to gain insight into meaning and change our lives.
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Do your actions align with what you believe about love?
Spirituality is more than a feeling. It is something we live out purposefully. As we practice living into our ideals, they become part of us.
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Are you living purposefully?
One of the hallmarks of spiritual health is pursuing a sense of purpose. Purpose has both psychological and physiological benefits.
Meaning
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Does your sense-of-self and narrative support healthy spirituality?
What does your sense of identity and your narrative you tell yourself about your life? Do you understand yourself as beloved?
Spirituality
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Do you have practices to support healthy spirituality?
Nurturing our spiritual health involves times of reflection and connection to our body, mind, and emotions.
Youth
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Kids and Community (Part 3): How Can We Keep Kids in Church?
How do we keep young people engaged in church? This is part 3 of a 3-part series.
Youth
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Kids and Community (Part 2): Adolescents and the Value of Loving Relationships that Display a Loving God
Why do kids need a community that models love, and what does emotional safety have to do with it. Part 2 of a 3-part series.
Youth
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Kids and Community (Part 1): How to Find the Right One for Your Kids to Thrive
How do you find a community to support your family? What kinds of support help families grow spiritually healthy and thrive.
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Created for Community (Part 2): The Human Connection in Healthy Spirituality
What does healthy spirituality have to do with our relationships? While our capacity for spirituality is hard-wired, our spirituality is in fact mostly developed relationally. We learn our beliefs and practices from others.
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