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Hi, friends. Thanks for joining us for another episode of the Proverbs 31 Ministries podcast where we share biblical truth for any girl in any season.

I am your host Meredith frock and I am here with my co host Kaylee Olsen.

Well, hey Meredith, I'm excited for our friends to get to hear our conversation today because we talk about.

Burn out. Which I think it really it is real and I think that if you're listening to this and you saw the title of the show, you probably need help right now, which is exactly what we're going to do today.

We're going to have our friend Bonnie Gray on the show today and we're going to talk about our tendency as women to kind of have this pull ourselves up fireboot straps mentality and our tendency to just push through and keep going without stopping and where that eventually does and she's going to share four ways that we can learn how to take care of ourselves practically today.

So I'm excited for you guys to hear that conversation. So let's head on in.

All right, everyone. Let's welcome our new friend Bonnie Gray to the podcast. Welcome Bonnie.

Oh, so happy to be here. Kaylee Emeritus. Thank you for having me.

Of course, Bonnie, you are joining us from close to Silicon Valley in California. So thank you for joining us from across the country. We're excited to have you here.

Just for our listeners to know, Bonnie is an author, a podcaster and one of the writers for our encouragement for today devotions at Proverbs 31 Ministries.

And today she is here to address something I'm confident that probably 99.9% of our listeners have or will experience one day and that is burnout.

But I have to be honest here. One of the reasons I think women and myself included might get stuck in a season of burnout is because we've been told that any form of self care can be unspear-tual.

And so Bonnie, we're going to turn the mics over to you and we can't wait for we can't wait to hear you share what you've learned from walking through your own seasons of burnout and how you can help our listeners get through there. So take it away, Bonnie.

Oh, thanks for having me. You know, even though we're on opposite sides of the coast, you know, we're just united as women who love God. And one of the first things that was really hard for me as I was suffering through burnout is.

Just wrestling with this whole question, is it even spiritual to focus on taking care of myself or in self care? It seems like a secular concept.

And even started from the very beginning as a little girl, I was just sharing with you before we started that I was born in a family where my mom was the 17 year old bride.

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