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Shalom: Soul Wellness Strategies


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SHALOM:Forming your own mental health strategies

Means complete wholeness and wellness - not just peace - inner peace

800 days of hard

KA shared traumatic reality

Body keeps score

NS has taken a hit

Empathy is low

We need a team: Not the time to go it alone!

Jeremiah 29 tells the exiles to find shalom…to the exiles, they were sent to Babylon for 70 years - we all may feel like exiles in our own hometown. He told them to settle down in a home, plant gardens, and eat the food they produce

For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 12 In those days when you pray, I will listen. 13 If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. 14 I will be found by you,” says the Lord. “I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again to your own land.”

Empathy is low

People we normally count on don’t have the bandwidth. We need a team: Not the time to go it alone! Researchers and professionals tell us we need 4-7 people on our mental health team. Inner circle friends, Psychiatrist, Psychologist, social worker, therapist, counselor, pastor/priest, spiritual director, Life Coach.

  1. Radical Grace: For yourself and others - perspective, slow down to see that
  2. Radical Boundaries - you have to slow down to say no so you can make margin in your life for what will heal your soul
  3. Radical Rest - you have to slow down to get good SLEEP, yes, and naps,
  4. Radical Adventure - you have to slow down to stay in the moment of play
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