Episode 289. Navigating Friendship Loss with Elizabeth Laing Thompson
In this episode of Radical Radiance, host Rebecca George welcomes author and friend Elizabeth Lang Thompson to discuss her new book When a Friendship Falls Apart: Finding God’s Path for Healing, Forgiveness, and (Maybe) Help Letting Go. The conversation includes talk about friendship breakups, offering listeners wisdom, insight, and advice on navigating these difficult experiences in a Christ-like manner. Elizabeth shares her personal journey with friendship loss and emphasizes the importance of addressing emotional well-being when grappling with deep loss.
Elizabeth Laing Thompson writes at LizzyLife.com about clinging to Christ through the chaos of daily life. As a speaker and novelist, she is always seeking humor in holiness and hope in heartache. She is the author of many books for women and teens, including When God Says, "Wait," All the Feels, All the Feels for Teens, When a Friendship Falls Apart, and the rest of the When God Says series. Elizabeth lives in North Carolina with her husband and children, and they were totally worth the wait.
Rebecca and Elizabeth chat about:
Identifying what went wrong in a friendship loss through prayer and seeking guidance from God.
Elizabeth's experience with a friendship falling apart due to built-up bitterness.
Grieving and processing friendship loss.
The increasing popularity of discussing friendship breakups in recent years.
The concept of friendship loss and the analogy of broken mugs representing broken friendships.
Navigating friendship loss in a wise and Christ-like manner.
Processing and working through emotions such as shame, regret, guilt, fear, insecurity, and resentment associated with friendship loss.
The role of forgiveness in healing from friendship loss.
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