How to build your support network and make new friends
There is a fabulous saying by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only way to have a friend is to be one”
Helping others can really help you get through a personal crisis. It shows you that there are others out there that are hurting, have emotional stress and in helping them you heal yourself. I suppose that is why I write this blog!
When you look at the great support groups like Alcoholic Anonymous the sponsors actually state that it is the support of others that helps them stay away from drink. Joining groups online via Yahoo, or in your community is a great way of being able to share your own feelings of grief and socialising with people who truly understand. Your friendship will help them, their friendship will give emotional support to you - a win-win situation.
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1 opinion for How to build your support network and make new friends
Ed
Nov 15, 2006 at 7:54 am
Dr. Koop touched on the value of such support…
“My years as a medical practitioner, as well as my own first-hand experience, have taught me how important self-help groups are in assisting their members in dealing with problems, stress, hardship and pain… the benefits of mutual aid are experienced by millions of people who turn to others with a similar problem to attempt to deal with their isolation, powerlessness, alienation, and the awful feeling that nobody understands.
- former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, MD, who also served as a member of Compassionate Friends, an international self-help group for bereaved parents, following the sudden death of his own college age son.
Best to you in your continued good works,
- Ed
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