Overcoming Holiday Blues: Episode 719
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Beating cynicism during the holidays, plus more on taming the anxiety monster, and when is it time to change your career?
Featured musical artist: Mosaic MSC ( https://mosaic.org/MSC )
Roundtable: Don't Be a Grinch
The holiday season can be a lot of fun, but it's also a time when negativity and depression unexpectedly creep in. Between stress, discouragement, unmet expectations and other pressures, it's easy to get angry and overwhelmed. Our guests admit their struggles with cynicism during the holidays, but have ultimately found ways to reframe their perspectives and infuse the season with peace and joy.
Culture: Peace in an Anxious World (Part 2)
Anxiety in today's world is at an all-time high — especially among young adults. Whether money, work, relationships or the future, there's always something to worry about. Is there a way to find calm in the storm? Pastor David Marvin is one of the leaders of The Porch — the largest church gathering of young adults in the U.S. — and he's passionate about finding peace and helping others do the same. In part two of our conversation, he shares what Scripture says about beating anxiety and how to overcome it in the areas of dating, career and money.
Inbox: Time to Change Careers?
She's working a stressful job as a nurse, and thinks it might be time to pull the plug. But how much should job stress be a factor in whether or not to change your career? Are there other options? Counselor Easton Coleman weighs in.
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| 0:00.0 | Friends, it is that time of year when people contact you and ask you to bless them as we are in the Christmas season and heading into a new year with a monetary gift. |
| 0:12.2 | And you know what? |
| 0:12.8 | I'm just going to go ahead and do that on behalf of Boundless. |
| 0:15.8 | This is Lisa Anderson, host of The Boundless Show. |
| 0:19.8 | And we are in our year-end giving campaign here |
| 0:22.9 | at Focus on the Family and Boundless, and your gift this year is going to be doubled in order |
| 0:28.9 | to further the work of Boundless as we minister to young adults. |
| 0:33.2 | How do you give? |
| 0:34.0 | Go to Boundless.org slash donate. |
| 0:36.6 | You can give today, and your gift will be matched |
| 0:39.6 | by a generous donor who has offered to put up that financial resource in order to stretch |
| 0:45.1 | gifts even further. So boundless.org slash donate, you have the opportunity to take us into the new |
| 0:50.9 | year here at boundless as we continue to provide great content and conversation |
| 0:55.9 | for you and everyone you love. Thanks so much in advance. |
| 1:02.0 | Boundless Show, Lisa Anderson, here with you. |
| 1:15.1 | A little preview of what's coming up later on. For our inbox, we have a girl who's working a very |
| 1:20.1 | stressful job as an ICU nurse, and she's kind of wondering, is it time to make a change? |
| 1:26.0 | Really, what should she be doing in light of her career? |
| 1:29.8 | So our friend and counselor, Easton Coleman, is going to join us to offer some helpful tips. |
| 1:34.7 | And then for our culture, Pastor David Marvin from Watermark Community Church and the porch |
| 1:40.0 | is here for part two of our conversation on finding peace in a world that runs on anxiety. |
| 1:46.4 | Be sure to stick around for that. |
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