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, create.

These ideas come from Rebecca's best-selling book,

Rhythms of Renewal,

trading stress and anxiety for a life of peace and purpose.

So grab your copy, invite your friends,

and let's live in rhythm.

Hey friends, I'm Rebecca, and I'm Gabe. And we are so excited to be coming at you twice a week these days.

I know well we've got a little more time on our hands so we've enjoyed doing it before that but now we really look forward to this opportunity.

We've heard such great feedback on how when we process through these rhythms and go a little bit deeper,

it's helping people get handles around how to actually practice these things.

Right, and because we have a little more time,

that's why it's so important to take advantage of that.

So today we are talking about the Connect Rhythm.

I'm really thankful because that's what we're doing while we're not

connecting outside of our homes. We are connecting inside of our homes and we are

obviously connecting online with as many people as possible, Zoom calls, you guys are all finding ways to do it.

We're resilient over time, we just figure it out, right?

In fact, you and I have a double date schedule tonight with another couple.

So we just said, hey, tonight we need to connect and so at 9 p.m. we're both going to get on a

face time call. We're not going to have the kids with us and we're just going to hang

out and talk and we've done that a couple times with other

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