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. Welcome back from Rebecca. And I'm Gabe.

And it's Memorial Day weekend coming up. Yeah, we're moving towards it beginning of summer.

We always love Memorial Day because that's always been kind of this traditional time to get friends

together and just to enjoy family friends, barbecue. Summer is here. Yeah, it's a good moment.

So we're excited about that. And I hope for some of you, we still live in the Northeast. So I know if

you're in the Northeast, school goes longer. So we used to have those summers that didn't start

till the end of June. Yeah. But hopefully this year you're able to just start celebrating summer

early. I think we all need it. Yeah, we do. Absolutely. And we just have a graduate now per last weekend.

That's right. It's been a fun season in the Lions household. And I hope for you guys, like Gabe said,

that you're going to get out, get some sunshine, enjoy a more open summer this summer than any of us

had last summer. It's a time to kind of recover gatherings and some time together and some play,

some recreation. We could all use a little bit more of that, I think. That's right. Well, and as we

move into the conversation today, I think you're going to enjoy this one because it parallels so nicely

with everything we talk about in the rhythms of renewal conversation. And it's this idea of our

mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical health being critical. And we're talking to author

Deborah Folletta. Her photo book, are you really okay? And she really adds on to some of what we

talk about here on a weekly basis and helps us better understand how to ask the kind of questions

that help you evaluate where your mental health set. But also to ask these questions, what is

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