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Amanda Anderson

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Amanda Anderson is a retreat and conference speaker, blogger, Bible teacher, and freelance journalist in Orange County, CA. Her speaking ministry, Heart in Training, reaches young mothers, women’s ministries and 12-step recovery groups around the country. Having overcome a decade-long struggle with anxiety and depression, her messages now focus on learning to follow God and actually enjoy it: through rest, recreating, creating healthy boundaries, risking authentic relationships, and releasing perfectionism.

Amanda Anderson spent many exhausting years trying to find and become the perfect friend until she a made an illuminating discovery: all of her friends had "issues," including herself. But she found that her closest friends admitted and t
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Serving without the Pressure of Success

A few weeks ago I was waiting to get coffee in the lobby at my new church, where my husband and I have been attending for several months, having downsized to a smaller neighborhood church. The man next to me, who had been there first, gave a little jump when he saw me. He was wearing black jeans and a black hoodie sweatshirt.

“I’m sorry,” he said. “Let me get out of your way.” I assured him he wasn

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“Eventually, I developed the discernment to spend energy in friendships that thrive--some I already had and new ones as well. And it didn't take finding perfect women without issues or becoming one myself. My friendships today are with imperfect women like me who have enough self-awareness that they can both give and receive the most important thing in any relationship: grace.”
Amanda Anderson, All My Friends Have Issues: Building Remarkable Relationships with Imperfect People

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“Eventually, I developed the discernment to spend energy in friendships that thrive--some I already had and new ones as well. And it didn't take finding perfect women without issues or becoming one myself. My friendships today are with imperfect women like me who have enough self-awareness that they can both give and receive the most important thing in any relationship: grace.”
Amanda Anderson, All My Friends Have Issues: Building Remarkable Relationships with Imperfect People

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