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Meaning
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Questions to Promote Love and Meaning
Thinking through paths out of anxiety and fear If it rings true for you that you need to train your brain to tone down anxiety and/or discover more about yourself – your sources of love and mattering, and your purposes – find a trusted friend or loved one or a small group and work through some of these questions together. Getting in touch with love: What are your fundamental beliefs about being loved–for just who you are? Not what you do, but just who you are now? Pause. Close your eyes, take 3 slow breaths–imagine God is looking...
Emotions
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Want to become more present, healthy, and connected? Pay attention to your body (Part 2)
Our emotions are linked to how we make meaning of our lives, and attending to our embodied emotional selves leads to spiritual health.
Emotions
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Want to become more present, healthy, and connected? Pay attention to your body (Part 1)
Thrive Fellow, Lauren Van Vranken, offers practices for reconnecting to our bodies and asks us to think about our relationship to our embodied selves.
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Perfectionism: Turning a Struggle into a Superpower
Why do so many people struggle with perfectionism? Dr. Kenneth Wang explains.
Spirituality
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Adolescents and Spirituality: How Transcendent Experiences can Create Resilient Teens
Research with Compassion International yielded results explaining the assets that come from spirituality across countries and challenges.
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Summer 2023: What We’re Reading About Relationships
These books are inspiring us right now with their insights about improving the quality of our relationships.
Emotions
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The Friendship Edit: Creating Meaningful Connections in a Digital Age
Our relationships are central to our thriving; ideas about how to “clean up” and improve the quality of relationships.
Meaning
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Living at the Intersection of Joy, Meaning, and Balance
Research indicates spirituality links meaning to joy, and may provide insight into the balance and purpose we seek.
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Spring 2023: What We’re Reading About Purpose
Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results by James Clear Why we like this book: James Clear offers concrete steps we all can take to change our habits for more purposeful living. If you have trouble making changes in your life and have goals you want to achieve, this book provides a framework for how to get results. The trick is to think in baby steps. My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem Why we like this book:…
Thriving
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The Divine Individuality of a Thriving Life
Our environments impact how we thrive. If our environments don’t support us, what can we do to support ourselves?
Emotions
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Can a Hug a Day Keep the Doctor Away?
You can get closer to those you care about with a little practice.
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