Protect Your Mental Health: Episode 851
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Mental health strategies for everyday life, plus more on how singles can make the most of today, and handling awkward same-gender friend dynamics.
Featured musical artist: Ginny Owens
Roundtable: Mental Health Self-Care
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Whether or not you have a particular mental health diagnosis, we all need to practice self-care in this area. Our panelists discuss guarding our minds and spirits with helpful strategies including good sleep, friendships, boundaries and more.
Culture: Loving Singleness Today (Part 2)
There are two enemies of enjoying your single season: yesterday and tomorrow. When you fixate on either one for too long, you miss opportunities to make the most of today. Ryan Wekenman is a single young adult, pastor, and author of the book, “Single Today.” In part two of our conversation, he’ll answer questions sent in by show listeners.
Single Today: Conquer Yesterday’s Regrets, Ditch Tomorrow’s Worries, and Thrive Right Where You Are
Inbox: She’s Making Me Uncomfortable
She met a girl at a dance class who is acting in a way that makes our listener uncomfortable. Is this a reason for concern or suspicion? What should our listener do? Counselor Joannie DeBrito 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. |
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| 1:14.2 | We are here with The Boundless Show, this week's episode, and I'm Lisa Anderson, |
| 1:18.9 | your friend and confidant and your biggest fan. |
| 1:22.6 | So anyway, coming up later on in the show, we have our inbox at the end of the show where one of you asked, |
| 1:30.0 | what should you do when a friend of the same gender is treating you in a way that makes you feel |
| 1:34.3 | uncomfortable? So that's the situation one of our female listeners finds herself in. And so one of |
| 1:40.3 | our counselors, Joni DeBrito, is going to weigh in on that. And then for our culture segment, |
| 1:45.0 | Pastor Ryan Weckerman is back for part two of a discussion on making the most of singleness today. |
| 1:51.8 | He is single. He's a pastor in Austin, and he is just walking it out. And so I think you will be |
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