Replenishing yourself when the world feels broken
Sep 19, 2025, 2:41 PM | Updated: 2:43 pm
Director of Humanitarian Services for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sharon Eubank sharing what people can do to replenish themselves. (KSL NewsRadio screenshot)
(KSL NewsRadio screenshot)
SALT LAKE CITY — When the world feels broken, how can people work individually to make a difference?
Director of Humanitarian Services for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sharon Eubank shared where to begin when life gets hard on Inside Sources, and how to replenish ourselves.
KSL NewsRadio edited the following transcript for brevity.
INSIDE SOURCES HOST HOLLY RICHARDSON: “Can you tell us a bit about replenishing ourselves? We’re all feeling, I think, a little depleted … maybe, really, a lot depleted right now – and what can we do?”
EUBANK: “There’s so many things in our culture and our society that we have to do just to, you know, live our lives everyday. Some of them are reading the news, listening to things, but it is depleting because there are so many difficult things and we feel the heavy weight of that.”
EUBANK: “We don’t ever mind that we plug in our phones to get power out of that, we don’t mind that I plug in my car, I put gas in it because … we have to replenish ourselves, and we need to replenish ourselves. In faiths there are built in breaks, like a Sabbath or a time of refreshment to bring ourselves back to God and get grounded in that.”
How serving helps everyone
RICHARDSON: “I’ve had experience with this … being able to get out and serve and having it bless my life. I’m wondering if you could share how everyday humanitarians start to feel service as a benefit? How does it benefit everybody?
EUBANK: “Yesterday I was over at the Episcopal Church with an interfaith group talking about the Great Salt Lake. It’s an issue I really care about, and I was standing next to people from other faiths, maybe we vote differently, we look differently, but we care about this issue. And I left there feeling so excited. When we connect with an issue that is important to us, instead of being a chore, it becomes a blessing. It’s good for our mental health, it’s good for our communities, and I’m always looking, ‘how can I help people connect with something they really care about?’ And then feel that uplift.”
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