Welcome to the Takeover + Review Blitz for The New Loneliness by Cindi McMenamin hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!
About the Book
- release feelings of inadequacy and shame by realigning with how the Lord sees you and understanding His purpose for you
- take confident steps toward nourishing healthy, in-person relationships by learning to slow down and operate from a secure attachment to God
- thrive within new friendships and community with practical guidance for making life more meaningful and preferring faces over screens
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Excerpt
Loneliness can rear its ugly head through any number of circumstances, or through unresolved wounds that lie festering in our hearts. It can blow in during a season of being overwhelmed and feeling we have no one to support us, or during a season of fruitlessness when we feel we’re too old, or too worn out, or too inept to do what we used to. It can pull us down when we feel we’re at the top of the world with everything we want in life, but we have no one to share it with. It can taunt us in the late hours of the evening when we feel, even if just for a while, that no one cares about us, or understands what we’re dealing with. And it can slam us when we least expect it through a sudden betrayal, a sense of abandonment, or a deep wound that we fear might never heal.
Loneliness also has a way of creeping up on us unnoticed, as it did in my own life, through a series of subconscious and tech-enabled habits that lead us to one day look around and think, Where have all my friends gone? Why am I suddenly more of a loner than I ever set out to be? How did this happen?
Whether your loneliness is caused by your work or living circumstances, a misunderstanding or falling out with someone, unresolved conflict with family or friends, or feeling inadequate, unprepared, unsupported, or overwhelmed, we were never designed to live this way. In addition to a myriad of reasons we can feel increasingly lonely today, the ever-changing, continually isolating culture we live in isn’t helping. It’s making our loneliness worse.
Excerpted from: The New Loneliness. Copyright © 2024 Cindi McMenamin. Published by Harvest House Publishers, Eugene, Oregon 97408. www.harvesthousepublishers.com