Welcome everyone to Family Talk. It's a ministry of the James Dobson Family Institute, supported by

listeners just like you. I'm Dr. James Dobson, and I'm thrilled that you've joined us.

Well, welcome once again to another edition of Dr. James Dobson's Family Talk. I'm Roger Marsh,

sitting in the co-host chair today. We're a broadcast division, of course, at the James

Dobson Family Institute and join for another conversation about what it means to cultivate

connection in a lonely world. Our guest is author, speaker, and podcaster Becky Harling. Becky

and her husband, Steve, have raised four children together, and they're still married and

smiling, which is always a good sign. They have a growing number of grandchildren and make

their home in the Colorado area. And the new book is called cultivating deeper connections

in a lonely world, and that will once again be the topic of our conversation.

Becky Harling, welcome back to Dr. James Dobson's family talk.

Hey, it's great to be back with you.

Thanks, Roger.

I love this conversation because we were talking in our previous discussion about what it means to cultivate deeper connections in a lonely world.

And you talked a lot about the benefits

and necessity of listening, of having a humble spirit. And we were talking a little bit the last

time as we were wrapping up about the world of criticism that we live into. Talk about how, I mean,

just kind of give us a 60 second overview of how social media and a pandemic exacerbated things

and the fact that people think they're a lot smarter than they actually are and even Christians

aren't quite as gracious as perhaps we should be is all fueling an epidemic now that the U.S.

Surgeon General says half of the population is experiencing loneliness.

Yeah, and social media is not helping us.

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