S5 Ep139: All My Friends Have Issues with Amanda Anderson
Live Well Anyway
MacKenzie Koppa
4.6 ā¢ 605 Ratings
šļø 23 October 2019
ā±ļø 62 minutes
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This week on the CTL podcast, MacKenzie Koppa chats with author and speaker Amanda Anderson about her book All My Friends Have Issues: Building Remarkable Relationships with Imperfect People (Like Me). Together MacKenzie and Amanda cover a range of topics related to building healthy friendships and maintaining good boundaries, including:
- Amanda talks about her book-writing journey
- MacKenzie and Amanda discuss the faithfulness required to move toward your goals
- Authenticity versus intimacy in building relationships
- Not every friendship needs to be at the same depth
- Amanda talks about how the idea of āfinding your tribeā may not be all that helpful to us in building friendship today
- Cautions against placing expectations on friends that are too high, unhealthy, or unrealistic
- The value of having several different people to speak truth into your life
- Toxic relationships and setting healthy boundaries
- Rebuke versus restoration in the church
- What itās like to have friendships in which you can give and receive correction
- The difference between hearing hard truths from friends instead of from your spouse
- Amandaās typical daily routine
- Be sure to check out the audio version of All My Friends Have Issues to get the extra bonus chapter that didnāt make it into the print version!
Amanda: finding time to do creative things like sewing projects
MacKenzie: listening to music on Pandora for a change
Resources Mentioned- Books: Movies: Find Amanda-You can find Amanda at heartintraining.com. You can also follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Find MacKenzie-You can find MacKenzie KoppaĀ onĀ Instagram,Ā Facebook, and theĀ CTL Facebook Group, of course! You can also listen to her family-friendlyĀ podcastĀ The Same Page!
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| 0:00.0 | So as a culture, we're like, we want people to be real. |
| 0:02.7 | We want them to be authentic. |
| 0:04.0 | We don't want to just play, show the best picture of me game. |
| 0:06.9 | But we have to have patience when we develop relationships because authenticity and intimacy is not the same thing. |
| 0:26.1 | Welcome. Welcome to cultivating the lovely. |
| 0:27.9 | I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. |
| 0:34.3 | And around here, we know that life is hard and we have to do everything we can to just make it a little bit more lovely. |
| 0:37.8 | So it's my mission to bring you great conversations, practical tools and information, and a healthy dose of community to help make those things happen. If you want to find out |
| 0:43.1 | more, you can go to our website at cultivating thelovely.com, visit our amazing membership community |
| 0:47.9 | at patreon.com slash cultivating the lovely, or by connecting with me on Instagram, which is one of my |
| 0:53.3 | favorite places to interact |
| 0:54.4 | with all of you. You can find me at McKenzie Kappa. Thanks so much for joining me today. |
| 1:01.4 | Okay, ladies, you may notice that over the past, I don't know, six months or so, I've been |
| 1:06.0 | having a few more ladies on the show to be talking about friendship. It is a topic that is so often brought up to me |
| 1:12.9 | by all of you because female friendships can be hard. And this book and today's author, I think, |
| 1:19.6 | are so on the ball with how to develop healthy female friendships. In her book, all my friends have |
| 1:27.1 | issues. Amanda Anderson really kind of |
| 1:29.7 | creates a manual for all of us on how to deal with conflict and getting friends. And what's the |
| 1:34.8 | difference between authenticity and intimacy and all sorts of topics that are so relevant to what we're |
| 1:41.3 | dealing with in friendships today, especially with social media and all |
| 1:44.7 | that sort of thing. I can't recommend this book highly enough. I'm so excited about it and I'm |
| 1:49.8 | excited about this conversation with Amanda. But before we jump in right there, I just wanted to |
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