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Anxiety, Church Hurt, Porn--and Loneliness that Keeps Us Apart: Shelby Abbott

FamilyLife Today®

FamilyLife Network

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Christianity, Personal Journals, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Shelby Abbott, author of Why We’re Feeling Lonely and What We Can Do About It, explains why going it alone doesn't work and how relationships are worth it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode is supported in part by the Christian Standard Bible, a translation designed to be faithful to the original text and clear for everyday readers.

0:10.1

And we're just grateful for their partnership in helping bring gospel-centered content to families like yours.

0:17.2

And to learn more about the CSB, visit CSBBBBBB.com.

0:26.5

Help your young person understand that the quote-unquote medicines that they're running to

0:33.2

to alleviate the problems in their life can be poisonous,

0:39.5

can be more destructive in their lives.

0:42.4

If you want things to get worse,

0:44.7

this is the direction that you run in.

0:46.3

But if you want things to be better,

0:48.4

run in direction of honoring Jesus with your body.

0:58.8

Music honoring Jesus with your body. Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

1:04.6

I'm Ann Wilson.

1:05.8

And I'm Dave Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLife Today.com.

1:09.9

This is Family Life Today.

1:18.7

All right, we got Shelby back in the studio.

1:21.4

We're going to be talking about, again, his book,

1:23.9

Why We're Feeling Lonely.

1:25.8

And I'm telling you you don't want to miss this.

1:28.1

It's so good.

1:29.0

Yeah, let's go.

1:33.9

This culture is training us to believe that you are enough.

1:38.0

Yeah.

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