Aug 30, 2023 | Mental Health Ministry, Stronger Together Support Group
Hello friends,
We’re going to start this week’s conversation with a video compilation from… comedian Jim Carrey? There’s a lot to enjoy in this 7-minute video, but don’t expect to find comedy highlights. What you will find are a series of reflections from speeches and interviews about what it means to shape your life by choosing love over fear.
While the video isn’t about mental health per se, it definitely speaks to important well-being concepts and the inseparable nature of our mental, spiritual, physical, and interpersonal health. As you watch the video, try to think about how you see the idea of “choosing love over fear” influencing your outlook and mental well-being.
Our warm-up question for this week:
Who or what makes you laugh the hardest… or the most often?
Apr 5, 2023 | Mental Health Ministry, Stronger Together Support Group
Hello friends,
We have another wonderful installment this week in our series healthy relationships. But we get to that, however, please remember that we’re meeting Wednesday evening at 7 pm since it’s Holy Week!
We’ll be talking about friendships: how they differ from other types of relationships, how powerful they can be in keeping us well, and whether or not there’s a “friendship recession” affecting our communities today.
To understand the issue a bit better, we’ll watch a brief video featuring Richard Reeves, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who has studied this topic extensively. It’s the perfect video and topic to share with friends!
Our warm-up question for this week:
Did you have a “best friend” as a child? What was your favorite memory with this friend?
Mar 30, 2023 | Mental Health Ministry, Stronger Together Support Group
Hello friends,
We’re continuing on the theme of healthy relationships this week, this time focusing on trust. While trust in relationships is a very relevant topic for all of us, it can take on new meaning when you are living with mental illness.
To get the conversation started we’ll watch a 10-minute video on the foundations of trust by social scientist and author/speaker Brene Brown. She introduces the acronym “BRAVING” to describe the essential elements of building and maintaining trust in relationships. We’ll discuss how these themes have played out in our own lives, and in particular the challenges we’ve faced when mental illness is involved.
Our warm-up question for this week:
Tell us about a time you laughed uncontrollably. What (or who) made it so funny?
Mar 16, 2023 | Mental Health Ministry, Stronger Together Support Group
Hello friends,
Attachment is an important concept in psychology that influences a lot of how we interact with others, from romantic partners to total strangers and everyone in between. We’re going to take an initial dive into this topic by exploring the four main attachment styles.
These attachment “styles” are often discussed in the context of intimate partner relationships, but you’ll see clearly in this overview how they shape all sorts of relationships in our lives. This is different from personality traits, which is something we’ll probably touch on as well.
Our warm-up question for this week:
What was your favorite or most memorable school field trip?
