Fueling Great Relationships With Others

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Dr. John Townsend offers practical ideas for how to tank up on relational nutrients in your relationships and how to contribute to the lives of others for emotional and spiritual health. He describes the types of people who are needed on your “life team” to help you grow – and others who need to be held at arm’s length, as you seek balance in your relationships with friends and colleagues.

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0:00.0	God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new
0:05.6	documentary from Focus on the Family in the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose
0:11.1	courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising starting September 5th and find out how
0:17.4	you can be a part of the change and become an agent of restoration.
0:22.4	Sign up at truthrising.com.
0:24.8	That's truthrising.com.
0:32.1	Proverbs chapter 4, verse 23.
0:34.5	Guard your heart for from it flow the well springs of life. If I don't take care of my heart,
0:39.7	which is my emotions and my values and my schedule and all that, then I'm not going to be able to
0:44.4	give it to anybody else. That's Dr. John Townsend, and he's our guest today on Focus on the
0:49.5	Family with Jim Daly. He'll be offering some tools to help us invest in others and also to allow others
0:56.0	to speak into our lives. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. You know, John, I think everyone
1:01.1	wants to live a healthy life, but they don't always know how to get there. And there's always these
1:07.0	attributes that they manifest that are very unhealthy and it prevents them from
1:12.3	living that very healthy life that they want to have and especially healthy
1:15.9	relationships our good friend dr. John Townsend has thought a lot about this and
1:21.4	has some wonderful ideas on how to do that how to strengthen, get yourself in a healthy position, and then
1:30.3	be that cup of cold water to the relationships around you, which is what Jesus is really calling
1:35.7	us to do. And he's going to offer some great practical wisdom on how to do that. I think you want
1:40.4	to kick back, get a cup of coffee, cup of tea, and sit in and listen to this one.
1:45.0	Yeah, you're going to find balance and encouragement for your daily life from Dr. Townsend.
1:48.7	He's a nationally known leadership consultant, psychologist, a bestselling author, and is the founder
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