How to Build Deep Relationships to Increase Longevity and Joy with Carla Sibley
Season 1 Episode 4
Episode 4 is all about building relationships and fostering community. All over the world, "blue zones" are where individuals live 100+ years. Research shows longevity prioritizing a strong, safe community and developing intentional deep relationships are linked. Caroline invites her mentor, Carla Sibley, to discuss the correlation between deep friendships and longevity. Carla speaks to maintaining a balanced, healthy spiritual and social life and delves into practical ways to maintain lifelong relationships.
You’ll Learn:
What a blue zone is and its links to prioritizing community and intentional relationships.
The importance of maintaining a balanced, healthy spiritual and social life.
Practical ways you can foster and maintain lifelong relationships.
Key Takeaways:
Research shows a correlation between deep social connections and longevity and life.
Your spiritual life is the center, holding everything together. All other areas are the spokes stemming from that.
Deeply connected relationship foundations rest on desire, time, and Christ-centered communication.
Scriptures Mentioned:
Proverbs 17:17 “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.”
1 Peter 4:8 “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”
2 Corinthians 5:14-15 “For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.”