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  • Find Your People

  • Building Deep Community in a Lonely World
  • By: Jennie Allen
  • Narrated by: Jennie Allen
  • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
  • 3.6 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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Summary

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE ECPA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD • The author of Get Out of Your Head offers practical solutions for creating true community, the kind that’s crucial to our mental and spiritual health.

“My dear friend Jennie Allen shows us how to make true emotional connections with the right people so that our authentic relationships can be healthy for all.”—Lysa TerKeurst, author of It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way

In a world that’s both more connected and more isolating than ever before, we’re often tempted to do life alone, whether because we’re so busy or because relationships feel risky and hard. But science confirms that consistent, meaningful connection with others has a powerful impact on our well-being. We are meant to live known and loved. But so many are hiding behind emotional walls that we’re experiencing an epidemic of loneliness.

In Find Your People, bestselling author Jennie Allen draws on fascinating insights from science and history, timeless biblical truth, and vulnerable stories from her own life to help you:

• overcome the barriers to making new friends and learn to initiate with easy-to-follow steps

• find simple ways to press through awkward to get to authentic in conversations

• understand how conflict can strengthen relationships rather than destroy them

• identify the type of friend you are and the types of friends you need

• learn the five practical ingredients you need to have the type of friends you’ve always longed for

You were created to play, engage, adventure, and explore—with others. In Find Your People, you’ll discover exactly how to dive into the deep end and experience the full wonder of community. Because while the ache of loneliness is real, it doesn’t have to be your reality.

©2022 Jennie Allen (P)2022 Random House Audio
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Critic reviews

“An important, inspiring work about loneliness and the power of connection . . . Allen offers practical solutions to questions like how to find friends, how to make relationships less superficial, what a true community looks like, and how to navigate being ‘dumped’ by a friend.”—Katie Couric Media

“Easy solutions to create true connections, strengthen relationships and curb loneliness. With scientific insights and biblical references, Allen shares ways to identify the type of friend you need, how to have authentic conversations and more. It’s a sweet map to joy and connection.”Woman’s World

“We know we need to do life with other people and have a supportive community around us instead of living in isolation, but we often wonder how when we’ve had friendships fail, we’ve been hurt, or we feel too busy to even make the effort. In Find Your People, my dear friend Jennie Allen shows us how to make true emotional connections with the right people so that our authentic relationships can be healthy for all.”—Lysa TerKeurst, #1 New York Times bestselling author and president of Proverbs 31 Ministries

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Thank you Jesus for Jennie

God has placed me somewhere where I knew no one and now I feel like I know everyone and this book could not have come at a better time. It’s encouraged me towards greater connection with others. I love how your heart shines through in this book and that you read it to us. Thank you for your sacrifice to birth this baby. ❤️

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Highly recommended

Excellent book on how relationships were intended to be
Brilliantly delivered by Jennie. Good read.

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Excellent

This book speaks so well into to a current and deadly issue in our times. Thank you so much Jennie for writing this. It is particularly hard in churches these days for single people like me, it seems a congregation is often made up of families with little kids or older people and not many like to really do life together because they are all too busy doing church activities...completely missing people sitting right next to them in each service. Hopefully this book will help the issue person by person.

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One to read/listen to again & again & …

Thanks Jennie for sharing your heart and wisdom in this book. You include many practical helps that will enrich our Christian lives and I am excited and motivated to continue putting these into practice in my own life. God bless you!

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Non-inclusive if you're not a Christian creationis

This book is heavily based on Christian thinking and belief, which I think should be stated somewhere on the cover. "Community building for creationists" might be a more fitting title.

While I welcome people having their own beliefs and don't mind a smattering of God talk, I don't welcome people pushing their beliefs on me, especially as this is a self help book and reasoning based on the existence of God is, from my point of view, faulty. As soon as she started stating that God made you for community I knew this was a book I could get nothing from.

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disapointing

I tried twice to listen but cobstant mentioning of church was off putting. Also when seeking friendship with new fun similar people there was no advise

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Not a Christian? Then don’t bother reading this book

Very disappointed - this book is not about finding your people but more about how to make friends-as long as they’re Christians. Two completely different things. Lots of Bible quotes taking up the content. Misleading title- waste of a credit.

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Author's main message "Find God" not useful.

Very preachy, not practical advice about finding/developing networks. Irritating to be told how God has created us, if only that were true.

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Too religious and self indulgent

I’m not religious so the constant references to Jesus, god and the holy trinity and how we are at war with the enemy it god are too much for me. I also find she spends far too much time talking about herself in a very self indulgent manner. It might resonate with some but I just found it annoying to listen to as I didn’t buy a biography of the author

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