EP 238 – Powerful Connections

I find it very hard and often stressful to stay connected to family and friends.  Our lives are busy.  Setting up time to connect seems like a major exercise in the calendar shuffle.

It is not that I don’t want to visit with them, it’s just that there never seems to be enough time to do it all.

I loved visiting my grandma, especially when we would just sit and play cards for a while.  I can still remember the family reunions at the local community center with everyone sitting out on the grass, playing baseball and eating all that amazing food that was set out on the picnic tables, or our Christmases where Santa would come to surprise everyone with a gift or two.

So Here are today’s Hot Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Visit Your Relatives Day:

Visit Your Relatives Day is intended to give us the opportunity to get closer to our relatives, stay connected to family and friends, and to strengthen family ties and relationships, or at least it is a good day to look at the months coming up and start to plan how you are going to ensure that you keep that special connection strong.

Family and friends can provide the support system needed to get us through the hardest of times and they are there to celebrate and create memories during important life milestones.

Even if you can’t go and visit them today, research suggests that even just viewing photos of family members prompts brain activity that can positively affect how you feel about them and even yourself.

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