T is for Togetherness:
3 Tips and Takeaways + Bonus Content
How to Find Your People, Keep Your Community Close, and Be Present to the Gift of Here and Now.
Social connection is the unsung hero of health.
Your relationships with family, friends, and your community are one of the keys to physical and emotional well-being. Try the three small, doable tips to find your people, strengthen social connection, and experience belonging within your community. Then explore subscriber-exclusive resources and downloadable content to help you harness the power of Togetherness to support whole-person health.
3 Togetherness Tips and Takeaways:
Sensible Ways to Find Friends, Connect with Your Community,
and Relish the People Who Care Most.
Make an investment with unforeseeably beautiful returns.
Try the tiny togetherness tips below to find meaningful connection in a network of people and friends who support and care about you and build a community you’re proud to be part of.
Find, build, and be part of your community.
A powerful way to find community outside of family, friends, or work? Connect through shared interests. Search for groups, clubs, teams, or meet-ups near you and reach out or attend their next open event.
How?
Think about hobbies, sports, causes, arts or cultural activities you enjoy, present or past. Note interests that excite you—then go find your people! Not sure where to start?
Use the Find Your People Activity Sheet in the bonus content section below to help gather and organize your possibilities!
Keep your community close.
It’s very easy to be connected today. But we’re also really isolated.1,2 Seeing your friends’ and family’s social posts can be wonderful, but passively clicking ‘Like’ on their updates can create an illusion of connection that doesn’t satisfy the need for closeness.3
It doesn’t take much effort to tell someone you care and you’re thinking of them, but it means so much!
How?
Make a point to devote that little effort—call, text, write. Whether it’s to say, “Thank you,” ask for help, offer support, or just because, every tiny gesture and moment you spend keeping your connections alive matters. Reach out and connect with someone today!
The most important things in life
are the ones taken most for granted.
It’s easy to get so caught up in your busy life that you and the people you’re closest to—your partner, your children, your parents—see each other only in passing. We take it for granted they’ll always be there, that we’ll have quality time we long for when life slows down a little.
How?
Enjoy the gifts you have here and now. Take a moment to be present to everyone you are grateful for today. Make time to say, “I love you.”
Bonus Content:
Exclusive Togetherness Resources for Sprouted Life Challenge Subscribers
Save-for-Later:
Togetherness Tips and Takeaways Sheet
Print or save a one-page version of the 3 Togetherness Tips and Takeaways to remind you of the small, doable things you can do to find your people, strengthen social connection, and be part of your community, long after you close this browser tab.
Download and Print or Fill
Find Your People
Activity Sheet
Everyone needs a support network. And from life events to relocation, growing up to aging, we all need to make new friends sometimes—and shared interests are an excellent place to find your people!
Don’t let your best intentions languish in a browser tab. Gather ideas, organize your short list of groups, clubs, teams, or causes, make plans, and get out there with help from our handy activity sheet!
Top 7 List
7 Loneliness Facts &
7 Benefits of Social Connection
Social connection and community belonging have an incredible impact on whole-person health, with impressive physical, mental, and emotional well-being benefits.
Conversely, the growing body of evidence of the health risks of loneliness and social isolation is so alarming, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a Commission on Social Connection in 20234 to seek solutions.
Video On-Demand
Kathy & Jodie:
The Benefits of Togetherness
Join Silver Hills Bakery Co-Founder, Kathy Smith and long-term team member Jodie for a casual fireside chat as they explore simple ways to connect with intent, and why reaching out is an investment that can make all the difference—for yourself and for the people around you!
Keep Learning:
Support Your Small Choices Journey with More Togetherness Resources
Easy Sprouted Breadcrumb Cookies with Chocolate Chips
Few things say you care like home-baked cookies!
Packed with sprouted whole grain goodness, these community-building breadcrumb cookies are made to share. Bake and freeze so you’re always ready with a warm, sweet welcome when a friend needs a shoulder or stops by for tea.
Ready-for-Anything Recipe:
How to Make Homemade Toast Crackers from Sprouted Bread
If you’ve got a loaf of sprouted bread, spreads and fresh sprouts in your fridge, and this simple recipe, you’re ready to host anyone who drops by unannounced!
Whether it’s summer break, the holidays, or a casual weeknight, this wholesome toast cracker recipe scales from a spur-of-the-moment snack to share with a friend, to a platter of last-minute appies to welcome an unexpected carload of just-in-the-neighbourhood relatives.
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Your 4-week email series may be over, but your journey has just begun—there’s a lifetime of small, SMART, doable things you can do to support better health.
Work on one at a time. Then come back to any SMART idea page in The Sprouted Life Challenge Library whenever you’re ready to try another or need a refresher.
Tell us how The Sprouted Life Challenge helped you, what you learned, liked, or loved, why it’s worth signing up—or how we can make it even better.
As a thank you for your feedback, we’ll send you a coupon for a FREE loaf of Silver Hills Bakery sprouted bread.
And you’ll be entered to win The Sprouted Life Challenge Grand Prize!*
* The Sprouted Life Challenge Giveaway Rules
Grand Prize Giveaway open to current Silver Hills Bakery subscribers who:
* FREE Bread Coupon Rules and Restrictions:
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