Clear Communication: Episode 887
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
How to communicate to others with honesty and clarity, plus tips for adulting well, and addressing a struggle with OCD.
Featured musical artist: Nathan Tasker
Roundtable: Say What You Mean
You’re trying to plan an event, but you can’t get anyone to RSVP. You know you have to turn someone down, but you don’t want to hurt their feelings. You started a text trail with a friend, and now they’ve gone MIA. Sound familiar? Why is it so hard to initiate, commit, respond, be honest — all the things that are hallmarks of mature communication? Our guests discuss the importance of following up, showing up, and speaking up honestly in our relationships. There’s a reason the Bible says, “Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil (Matt. 5:37). Together we can learn how to do better, starting with this conversation.
Culture: How to Be an Adult
At 19, Tez Brooks took a leap of faith and moved 1,000 miles away from home. He soon had a rude awakening that being an adult is no easy task; he couldn’t even do his own laundry. Now the author of “Adult-o-Nomics,” a fun yet practical guide to mastering life skills, Tez addresses our need to take responsibility, master necessary tasks, relate to the opposite sex, and more.
Adult-o-Nomics: How to Nail It On Your Own
Inbox: A Christian Approach to OCD
Our listener admittedly wrestles with OCD and is looking for help from a Christian perspective. Counselor Tim Sanford weighs in.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Boundless show. |
| 0:11.3 | Well, friends, welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. |
| 0:14.5 | This is Lisa Anderson here with you. |
| 0:16.9 | We are finishing out January with a great show ahead for you. For our inbox, we have a |
| 0:22.5 | listener who admits to having a struggle with OCD, but what does that look like? Like, how do you |
| 0:27.8 | deal with OCD? Are there unique ways to deal with that? So one of our counselors, Tim Sanford, |
| 0:32.1 | is going to weigh in on that. And then for our culture segment, author Tess Brooks has a book about doing adulthood |
| 0:39.0 | successfully. What kind of markers should you look for? What should you actually be growing and |
| 0:45.0 | maturing in? What skills do you need? He calls it adultonomics, how to nail it on your own. And so this is |
| 0:51.5 | going to be a fun discussion about what it looks like to do |
| 0:54.6 | adulting well. Okay, here we are for our roundtable. And another great hallmark of |
| 1:00.2 | adulting is knowing how to communicate and how to expect communication from other people. |
| 1:06.3 | I think pretty summarily, we all think that we're great communicators and everyone else is terrible. |
| 1:13.1 | I know I think that. So we're going to maybe expose some of those lies, or I will anyway. |
| 1:19.9 | But no, get down to the nitty gritty of what it looks like to have good conversations with our |
| 1:24.3 | friends, to get the information we need, to be kind in the process, |
| 1:32.0 | to respect other people. And so we have Ryan, Bree, and Lauren here to talk it all out. |
| 1:38.4 | Hey, guys. Hi, Lisa. Hello, hello. Okay. So first of all, a little, I need a little survey, litmus test. What do you communicate well in and what do you do poorly in? So this is just you personally, like as you're communicating with people. Where do you shine? Where do you fail? If you don't come up with a failure, I'll give one to you. I'm just kidding. It's all good. Bree, how about you start? You love talking about communication. Yes. And I do believe that I am one of the good communicators. |
| 2:01.6 | However, I did find a fault as you were thinking about that or wanting me to reflect on that. |
| 2:06.4 | I will respond to everything. |
| 2:10.3 | I can't let a text message go unread or unresponded to, rather. |
| 2:15.6 | However, I will leave it unread until I'm ready to respond. So sometimes my |
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