This is what it means to be in a community where you can name what you want. And even if you can't have it for good reasonable reasons, you're in a community that can acknowledge that that you want it is totally legit. So we're talking about practices, for instance, in which I want you to be a community for your names and regularly what it is that you long for. There are gratitude practices for instance. Now gratitude practices don't necessarily emerge explicitly out of religious communities. It's because as it turns out, even though like they actually emerged originally, now the science tends to show, gosh, what happens when you practice gratitude if we say like here's anybody
Scholars, journalists, practitioners, and other thought leaders all agree — we’re facing a loneliness epidemic that’s as grave a threat to public health as obesity or substance abuse. Where do we go from here?
In this Forum from 2019 at the University of Minnesota, psychiatrist Curt Thompson discusses human flourishing and community. When it comes to mental health, he says, don’t go it alone.