Navigating Evolving Beliefs & How to Save a Friendship Strained by Personal Growth

Take Back Your Mind

Michael B. Beckwith

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

5 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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This week’s Life Question comes from Alvorine whose personal development journey has put a strain on her 30-year friendship.

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0:00.0	Peace and Rich's blessings.
0:21.6	Peace and blessings. I'm Michael Beckwith, and I'm welcoming you to the Life Question of the
0:38.6	Week podcast on Take Back Your Mind podcast. Have a big smile on my face because inside I'm just
0:46.4	grateful and thankful that I am me. I get to do this. I don't have to do it. I get to do it.
0:55.3	I get to talk to millions of people,
0:59.6	answer questions to the best of my ability.
1:02.2	I get to host a podcast and have brilliant people
1:04.3	sharing how they've taken back their mind.
1:09.1	And so today, I get to be with you right now on the life question of the week.
1:15.4	Alvarine, she asked this.
1:19.6	I've been best friends with the high school classmate for over 30 years.
1:25.2	A few years ago, I began a personal development journey which exposed me to new
1:29.7	ideas and ways of thinking. And as a result, the conversations between my friend and I gradually
1:36.1	became strained, especially in the last two years. I wrote a letter about this which sparked
1:42.5	a discussion between us and afterward our
1:46.2	conversations started to flow a little better.
1:50.0	But our last conversation felt like an hour-long tug of war and left me feeling so mentally
1:55.4	and emotionally exhausted the next day I texted her saying we should take a break from our
2:00.7	catch-up sessions for a while.
2:03.9	This felt like the right decision for about 24 hours.
2:07.7	And then I started feeling really bad about severing our 30-plus-year friendship and doing it via a text.
2:15.9	What are your thoughts on this?
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