146. Helping Friends in Crisis

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

You have a friend in crisis. Maybe it's a job loss, miscarriage, extramarital affair, a child in the hospital, or perhaps marital trouble finally has your friend breaking the ice. What do you do? Can you say the wrong thing? Do they need advice?

In this episode, we talk about some basic principles of what it looks like to show up and be present for a friend in crisis. We also provide some outside resources should your friend need professional care.

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0:00.0	someone who has brought to me, you know, difficult things. We've had it, even if I've just met a friend for coffee,
0:05.0	it's just a really difficult conversation and they're walking through really hard things.
0:09.1	I've just learned to pray the love of God between me and them, meaning that there is nothing about
0:15.5	their things that I now need to carry except the love of God. I just, I love them, and that is the thing that puts this really a protective wall between us
0:25.8	as a comforting thing, not just for them, but also a protection for me.
0:30.6	You are listening to the Famous At Home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:36.2	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:44.3	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast.
0:47.3	Today we are talking about walking friends through crisis.
0:51.3	And we wanted to talk about this because it's something that I think all of us
0:56.2	have walked through and wrestled with. And it's a really difficult place to be. It could be a family
1:03.9	member. It could be a friend. It could be regarding their marriage. It could be something like a bomb that's gone off like an affair.
1:13.9	It could be a friend who's struggling with a child.
1:17.6	It could be a friend struggling with mental health issues or a spouse.
1:22.5	You know, the friend's spouse is struggling with mental health issues and doesn't know where
1:26.3	to turn. And our friends,
1:28.3	they come to us or our family comes to us and they want to talk about it. They want a listening
1:34.5	ear and sometimes advice or counsel. And I think we always feel inadequate. And we want to talk to
1:41.5	you, the one who is being come to for help, because it's a heavy,
1:48.8	heavy burden to bear. And sometimes it leaves us like reeling and we throw out unhelpful things or
1:55.5	we carry the weight of it. And so we want to talk about how we can be there for other people
2:00.7	while they're walking through hard things. But how we can be there for other people while they're walking
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