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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 “finding your tribe” 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 it’s 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
• Amanda’s typical daily routine
• Be sure to check out the audio version of All My Friends Have Issues to get the extra bonus chapter that didn’t 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

All My Friends Have Issues

When Harry Met Sally

Talladega Nights

You can find Amanda at heartintraining.com. You can also follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

You can find MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram, Facebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! You can also listen to her family-friendly podcast The Same Page!

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