1. What do you value most in a friend?

2. Which area do you need to work on most to be a better friend?

3. Who outside your family has had your back when you needed it most?

4. What is the best way to deal with someone in your life who drains you?

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1. What was the hardest season of your life to go through?

2. What perspective do you have now that you wish you’d had during that hard season?

3. Are you going through anything now that feels like it will never end? How would having hope right now change things?

4. Have you ever tried to change someone or something when it really wasn’t within your power to do so?

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1. How have you struggled with balancing work and pleasure?

2. When your life gets out of balance does work usually dominate or pleasure?

3. Why is it important to have realistic expectations for work and pleasure?

4. Have you ever used pleasures as self-medication? If so, how did you resolve it?

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1. Share about a time when you knew something and wished you didn’t.

2. Share about a time when you didn’t know something but wished you did.

3. Do you ever avoid knowing certain things to avoid pain?

4. Do you think ignorance is usually bliss? If so, why not be deliberately ignorant?

5. What has been your experience with depression? How do most people treat depressed people?