New Year Transitions: Episode 883
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Embracing changes in a new year, plus what grief looks like, and do you hate responsibility?
Featured musical artist: Ginny Owens
Roundtable: New Year, New Opportunities
A new job. An engagement. Starting a dating relationship. Moving to a new place. One of the beauties of life is the chance to grow, try new things, and step into adventure. But with change comes a whole new set of challenges. To share wisdom on getting through adjustments you’ll make this year, our guests discuss what lessons they’ve learned through life’s transitions.
Culture: The Process of Grief
Grief comes in many forms. Whether death, injury, disappointment or betrayal, grief often arrives unannounced and without an instruction manual. Rather than progressing in a straight line or on a specific timetable, grief moves in cycles. At least that’s what counselor and educator Dr. Ray Mitsch says. The victim of a serious accident that has him in constant pain, Dr. Mitsch walks us through how to navigate the different components of grief, how to comfort the grieving, and when to know it’s time to get professional help in processing loss.
The Seasons of Our Grief: Embracing the Journey
Inbox: I Don’t Like Responsibility
Being a grownup means taking responsibility for everything from life skills to decisions to how we treat others. That doesn’t mean it’s easy, though. If you’re responsibility-averse, you’ll be encouraged by the words of counselor Jeff Brown.
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| 0:00.0 | Boundless show. |
| 0:11.3 | Well, hey, folks. |
| 0:12.4 | Welcome to this week's episode of the Boundless show. |
| 0:14.7 | This is Lisa Anderson here with you. |
| 0:17.3 | We are right in our first show of January. Oh Oh my goodness. This is exciting. So a new year |
| 0:23.3 | 2025. We're here with you. Grateful to be here. A little preview of what's coming up later on in the show. |
| 0:30.3 | So we have someone who considers themselves not too responsible and they want to know like what does it look like to grow in this area because |
| 0:40.4 | they don't like being responsible. So one of our counselors is going to weigh in with some ideas for |
| 0:45.0 | them on that and I'm sure that many of us will be able to relate to that. So then for our culture, |
| 0:50.2 | we have Dr. Ray Mitch. He is a professor at Colorado Christian University, has written a book called |
| 0:55.8 | The Seasons of Our Grief, having just come through the holidays, and now we're in a new year. |
| 1:02.1 | A lot of times this is a really hard time for people who have lost a loved one, who are in a crisis, |
| 1:07.8 | who are walking through some pretty hard things. So this can trigger a lot of emotions. |
| 1:11.9 | And so Dr. Mitch is going to really help us navigate this space, especially, you know, like I |
| 1:18.3 | said, as we're looking ahead at a new year. Okay, here we are for our roundtable, though. We have |
| 1:23.0 | got Grace, Bill, and John here. Hey, guys. Good to have you. So speaking of the fact that we are in a new |
| 1:30.0 | year, we want to talk about transitions in a new year. So sometimes we have transitions that we have |
| 1:36.4 | orchestrated. We're like, something's got to change. And so we're making something happen. |
| 1:41.8 | Sometimes transitions come unexpectedly. Sometimes even good transitions |
| 1:47.3 | come unexpectedly, which is kind of weird. We can talk about that a little bit. But it's kind of one of |
| 1:52.3 | those things where, you know, we talk about people and personality type. Some people love change. |
| 1:58.2 | They love kind of something new always happening. Other people are like absolutely not. |
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