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How Social Support Contributes to Psychological Health

By Kendra Cherry — 2020

It is social support that builds people up during times of stress and often gives them the strength to carry on and even thrive.

Read on www.verywellmind.com

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We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .’

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C. S. Lewis
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Connect and Lead, How We Create Community - Kathy Coffey - TEDxSnoIsleLibraries

How can we build community? Where do we begin? Kathy Coffey, executive director of Leadership Snohomish County, has found community in places as conventional as a church and as unorthodox as a mafia bar.

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2017
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Building Community that Creates Exponential Impact - Nadav Wilf - TEDxStPeterPort

According to Yasuhiku Genku Kimura Buddhist teachings: "Passion is not something we have, it's who we are as a cosmic destiny." When we are being our passion we are enlivened and attract a community who shares our vision.

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2016
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Connection: How to Find the Life You’re Looking for in the Life You Have

We are in the midst of an epidemic of loneliness. Though modern technology purports to “connect” us like never before, we live increasingly isolated and insulated lives, painfully disconnected from each other, from our values, and from ourselves.

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Kristine Klussman
2021
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13 Ways to Kill Your Community (2nd Edition)

13 Ways to Kill Your Community is lively, full of personality, conversational, breezy, succinct, and fun.

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Doug Griffiths, Kelly Clemmer
2016
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The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging

Strong cultures help people support one another, share their passions, and achieve big goals. And such cultures of belonging aren’t just happy accidents - they can be purposefully cultivated, whether they’re in a company, a faith institution or among friends and enthusiasts.

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Charles H. Vogl
2016
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Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

How can we connect our personal spiritual journeys with the larger course of our shared human experience? How do we compassionately and wisely navigate belonging and exclusion in our own hearts? And how can we embrace diverse identities and experiences within our spiritual communities, building...

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Larry Yang, Jan Willis (foreword), Sylvia Boorstein (foreword)
2017
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Where the Edge Gathers: Building a Community of Radical Inclusion

In Where the Edge Gathers, Flunder uses examples of persons most marginalized by church and society to illustrate the use of village ethics--knowing where the boundaries are when all things are exposed--and village theology--giving everyone a seat at the central meeting place or welcome table.

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Yvette Flunder
2005
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Rhythm of Compassion: Caring for Self, Connecting with Society

The Rhythm of Compassion addresses one of the central spiritual questions of our time: Can we heal ourselves and society simultaneously? The core premise of this book is that the health of the human psyche and the health of the world are inextricably related, and we cannot truly heal one without...

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Gail Straub
2001
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