Together with Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad
Together
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 - 28 minutes
In this episode, Jack has a conversation with Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brigham Young University. She is a loneliness and social isolation expert whose research focuses on the long-term health effects of social connections.
Julianne has made the remarkable finding that being socially isolated carries the same health risk as smoking 15 cigarettes a day! And it's more predictive of early death than the effects of air pollution or physical inactivity.
We recognize today that the U.S. and a number of other developed nations are facing a loneliness epidemic. And Dr. Holt-Lunstad's years of research on this issue are ahead of its time.
Read more of her articles and studies online at https://julianneholtlunstad.byu.edu
Grab your copy of Jack Eason's latest book TOGETHER: Abandoning Loneliness for the Power of Community at https://www.jackeason.org/books/#loneliness
Statistics show that, despite our connected world--and partly because of it--we are lonelier than ever. Social media tricks us into thinking that we are engaged in genuine friendships, except we never quite get beyond that feeling of being outside someone else's life and looking in every so often at what they choose to show the world. Instead of intimacy we get little more than what amounts to digital small talk. But there is a solution.
With plenty of good humor and practical advice, Jack Eason invites you to discover the benefits of doing life together with other brothers and sisters in Christ. Grounding his message in Scripture, Eason helps you
- learn the obstacles to real community
- reimagine what real friendship looks like
- discover a place of true belonging
- and more
If you're tired of feeling lonely, this encouraging and community-building book is just what you need.
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