Hey friends, welcome to the Rhythms for Life podcast where each week we talk about four rhythms

that help you reduce stress and anxiety and take charge of your emotional health. Rest,

restore, connect, and create.

Welcome back, I'm Rebecca. And I'm Gabe and we are so glad you've joined us today for this

episode. We're going to get into all kinds of great and practical things about our families,

about rhythms, about what that means. First, I just want to thank our sponsor Ame for the

Say Yes series we're in the middle of and today we're talking at Jefferson Bethke who is so much fun,

been a good friend for a long time, but somebody who has so many insights into what does it mean for us

to be intentional about rhythm in our families. Yeah, so his book, Take Back Your Family,

we're going to dig into today, but first we're going to talk about what makes a family strong.

It is when the parents are solid. And the parents are operating rhythm and I talk about that a

lot in the connect rhythm of just loving the one you're with and that marriage intensive. And so

this is why Gabe and I care so much about starting with marriage as a focal point, the center of

establishing a healthy family. And so you can't take your family back if you haven't taken your

marriage back. And so we know a lot of people have struggled in marriage this last year and a half

partly because we're all on top of each other for a long season of just like not getting outside

and then when we did like some of those things that didn't surface before because we were busy

began to surface. And while Gabe and I are walking that journey in our own health and

and nourishing our own hearts through counseling and just having honest conversations,

we want to make sure that we foster that in you. And that's part of why we've created retreat

settings. These are so important for us to have space to get away from the busyness of life,

all the demands, turn off the phone and get into our own health. And so we'll be at Los

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