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The Importance of Fun

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Fun is a fundamental need of every person – it helps us to relax and promotes well-being, which helps combat depression and anxiety. Fun activities at SRM offer opportunities to practice relationship building, social skills, and problem solving in a healthy manner. Typically, women with a traumatic background have not been in a safe environment to have fun, laugh, or love; so learning how to have fun in healthy and safe ways is an important part of symptom management and the healing process. We take seriously the admonition in Proverbs 17:22, which says, "A joyful, cheerful heart brings healing to both body and soul. But the one whose heart is crushed struggles with sickness and depression." (The Passion Translation)

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"The connection between our emotional health and physical health is undeniable. Those who are have a joyful and positive outlook are far more likely to have better physical health. It’s not a guarantee that the joyful will never get sick, but their ability to recover and cope with illness is greatly enhanced. Conversely, those who rarely laugh or spend long periods of time in overly serious states have less of an ability to handle the stress of illness and disease. Those with long term depression – what the Bible calls 'a broken spirit' – often have physically declining health that parallels their emotional illness." ~ Chaplain Brian