A shortage of healthy touch can effect our wellbeing, and even be psychologically damaging, writes Collett Smart. She shares tips for parents of teens.
Tag: relationships
Back in the first century, it wasn’t normal for men and women to be friends. But with his radical new ethic of equality, Jesus changed that.
Having experienced decades of abusive relationships, Jakki Civeriati began to learn powerful tools to help her break free.
Perhaps influential people aren’t the most influential people in the world. Perhaps the most influential people in the world were their parents.
“…Can you make something beautiful with people that you strongly disagree with? I think you can, and I think we need to.”
The “Single Minded” online series is seeking to create positive, biblical conversations about sex, starting with “Rethinking Biblical Sexuality”.
There are places in our lives that we haven’t visited in a long time, and to which its good to go back to begin a much needed healing process.
As the day closed I looked on as those around me returned home; mothers, tradesmen, students, businessmen and grandmas. All with their own lives.
“We haven’t got everything right,” I said, “But our church community has been amazing at helping people and being a family.”
I was holding out for something external to happen to me to give me permission to change. I didn’t even realise that this was an expectation that I had.