I also think there are better popular science books on the importance of social connections for health: Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Although we were often together, the reality was each of us were often in our own worlds emotionally and mentally. We were active as a family, yet apart. If you are looking for books about friendship for your children to read, you can’t go wrong with the acclaimed novel, Wonder. This story of a boy with a severely deformed face entering public middle school for the first time will make you ponder how you react to people who look differently. This middle-grade phenomenon will be read in classrooms around America for years to come.

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The subsequent weeks following SIP revealed a sobering truth: I relied on common locations to keep me in relationships with them, rather than having deep love that compelled me to pursue relationships. The saddest reality is that loneliness is a vicious cycle. When we are rejected by others, we feel real, intense pain. This pain causes us to look at others not as potential friends, lovers, or colleagues, but as potential threats and sources of even more pain. People coming off of a toxic relationship take a long time to be able to trust others again, if they ever can. In the meantime they question their own likeability, and whether they deserved receiving the pain in some twisted way. Being rejected causes a stress response, making one hyper-vigilant against future possible rejections. It's a trap that can be hard to escape from.In a last-ditch effort to save Earth from an extinction-level event, a group of astronauts is sent on a desperate mission in a cobbled-together spacecraft. But when Ryland Grace wakes up, he has no memory of his mission or why the rest of the crew is dead. The sole survivor, he must take on an impossible task with the help of an alien spider, in this interesting science fiction book about friendship.

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In Together, Vivek Murthy has put his finger on an important and under-recognized health hazard. By identifying loneliness as a key factor underpinning so many mental and physical illnesses, he opens the door to acceptance and offers much-needed solutions. We need Murthy’s book now more than ever.” In our age of shuttered Main Streets, dying malls, and the proliferation of weak links on social media, we’re missing vital personal connections. In Together, Dr. Vivek Murthy brilliantly diagnoses what ails us in our personal lives and in society, and offers a prescription for enriching each other’s lives—and our own.” I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.” This planet is a broken bone that didn’t set right, a hundred pieces of crystal glued together. We’ve been shattered and reconstructed, told to make an effort every single day to pretend we still function the way we’re supposed to. But it’s a lie, it’s all a lie.”

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Although spending time together does indeed create togetherness, it’s vulnerability that cements our connection with each other.” The Power of Togetherness Framing the injustices against torture survivors, including asylum seekers, as moral transgressions requiring moral responses, this book brings together a collection of varied and powerful group practice examples of such responses. Togetherness, in group-based and community-based work with survivors, is exemplified as both a metaphor and as a means to foster solidarity against injustice, human connection, awareness-raising and collective action, towards the restoration of the human dignity of survivors and towards justice. In an era of individualising, pathologising psychological therapies being heralded as solutions to all forms of trauma, this book reminds us of the immense creativity and power of groupwork in enabling change beyond the individual. It is a timely and an invaluable resource for all those working with refugees and survivors of human rights abuses. And yet it can be refreshing to stop a while and see something familiar in new light, to reflect on what we take for granted or what we assume must always be done a certain way because we’ve simply never wondered if there’s a different way to do things. Brothers, although we have been separated from you for a little while—in person but not in heart—we eagerly desire to see you again face to face. 1 Thessalonians 2:17 ISV Humans are social creatures: In this simple and obvious fact lies both the problem and the solution to the current crisis of loneliness. In his groundbreaking book, the 19th surgeon general of the United States Dr. Vivek Murthy makes a case for loneliness as a public health concern: a root cause and contributor to many of the epidemics sweeping the world today from alcohol and drug addiction to violence to depression and anxiety. Loneliness, he argues, is affecting not only our health, but also how our children experience school, how we perform in the workplace, and the sense of division and polarization in our society.

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Growing up, my dad would have our family spend many winters and summers together – going skiing, camping, visiting beaches and amusement parks, and taking the occasional trips to Las Vegas or Palm Springs. I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” Now since we have chosen to walk with the Spirit, let’s keep each step in perfect sync with God’s Spirit. 26 This will happen when we set aside our self-interests and work together to create true community instead of a culture consumed by provocation, pride, and envy. Galatians 5:25-26 Voice This book made me teary eyed more than once. It is so beautifully written, and it also helped me see my own struggles through the lens of loneliness, something I hadn’t considered before. Here is my selection of books about families I’ve been thrilled to read about (but pretty glad not to be part of):The book will be relevant to those working in rehabilitation, community, mental health, and humanitarian fields and are interested in using groupwork as part of their services. The general concept of the Surgeon General highlighting connections is well-intentioned. But this book is neither fish nor fowl. It's a mish-mash of anecdotes, "thought leader" advice, and "studies show" reports. For a good Surgeon General memoir, I would recommend either of the ones I've read: Koop: The Memoirs of America's Family Doctor Joycelyn Elders, M.D. : From Sharecropper's Daughter to Surgeon General of the United States of America.

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Rather than conveniently move forward without Titus to take this exceptional opportunity, Paul’s conviction to prioritize togetherness led him to pursue Titus while leaving the opportunity behind. Set in a Portuguese community in Massachusetts, young Hallie Costa forms a lifelong bond with Gus Silva after the murder of his mother. One of the best books about friendship and love, the story follows them through the ups and downs of their lives – examining the balance between the good and evil that lives within each of us. Patry Francis will leave you feeling hope for the future and make you reconsider the true meaning of soul mates.

For the time being, we are no longer able to meet together at our usual campuses, workplaces, church services, facility venues, homes, or restaurants to make connections.