We're not put here just to survive.

We're put here to thrive.

There's going to be a lot of stuff coming at us, stuff that scares us, stuff that stresses

us out, stuff that breaks our heart.

There will be seasons of life where you feel like you are ground down into the dust.

But God will take care of you.

He will see you through this.

Welcome back.

Today we're talking all about stress.

It doesn't sound like a fun topic, I know, but I'm going to make it fun.

And this is one of those shows that I'm so excited to put in the health series because this is stuff you really need to know.

I'm going to teach you how to manage it, why we need to monitor it, even if we don't feel stressed,

how to balance it and how to thrive even though we're dealing with stress.

So for me, I never thought that I felt stressed.

It wasn't until I got my Apple Watch a few years ago and then started looking at settings

and started playing around with it that I realized I was stressed. I got a stress monitor app for

my Apple Watch. And it gives me, you know, green and blue and orange and red. And I realized that I was living most of the time in the

red. My body was completely stressed and overwhelmed, but I was so used to that being life that I

didn't even recognize. I was so out of tune. I was in fight or flight and my body didn't know

that it was okay to calm down. So I have been working

since April to get my stress under control to kind of get in tune with my body. Again, this goes

with the bigger picture of health with everything that I've been doing. And I want to share with

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