Hi, I'm Leslie Lutty, host of the Set Apart podcast, Biblical Encouragement for Women.

We are in our steadfast heart series, and we've been exploring biblical ways to cultivate true emotional health in light of the many counterfeit versions of emotional health that are out there today in our culture.

And this week we're going to be talking about turning outward and how important that is

for really being strong emotionally. It's kind of counterintuitive. And yet it's an incredible

secret to having joy and peace and stability in our souls. And we're going to be talking about

how to turn outward in really simple ways that don't feel overwhelming. So before we dive in,

I wanted to let you know that our setapart conference is coming up May 22nd and 23rd at the Ellersley campus. There is still room to join us in person. There are some spots left. We would love to have you to our campus, and I would love to meet you in person and just share a special weekend with you. You can go to setapart.org and click on events or click the link in this description. Also, you can join us anywhere in the world by watching the online version of the conference. And this is a great way to share this message with other women in your life. It's great for mothers and daughters or small groups. So again, just go to setapart.org and click on events. If you'd like to learn more about the watching online version. You'll have access to the sessions all throughout the rest of 2026.

So you can really choose a time or a weekend that works best for you in your group or you can

just enjoy the sessions on your own.

Just a great way to take these messages a lot deeper.

Also I wanted to let you know that there is still room to join us this summer for our

five-week program, which starts in July at Ellersley. This is an incredible opportunity to

become grounded in your faith and just really spend five weeks immersing in truth and

sitting at the feet of Jesus. So if you're interested in coming to Colorado for five weeks of

just amazing spiritual growth, I would just

encourage you to go to Ellersley.com and click overview of programs or click the link in this podcast

description. So let's talk about how turning outward impacts our emotional health. Now we've talked

about this before. In this week's episode, though, I'm going to get a little more practical with

what it means to turn

outward.

But just as a review, turning outward is a often forgotten secret to actually having true joy.

And there are a couple stories that I've shared about this in previous episodes.

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