Hey Friends, welcome to the Rhythms for Life podcast, where each week we talk about

rhythms for building resilience, so you can take charge of your mental, spiritual, and relational

health.

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

resilient life, how adversity awakened strength, hope, and meaning. So grab your

copy, invite your friends, and let's build resilience together. I'm Hi, I'm Gabe Lyons and welcome to another edition of the Rhythms for Life podcast. I'm so thankful that you are a part of learning alongside us.

And this journey through You Are Free, the book, I mean I remember when Rebecca was first burdened to write this book.

It was after she had gone through her first experience of really starting to find healing

and renewal outside of her panic attacks and she had started to tell the story of that in her first book

Free Fall to Fly, but God really put it on her heart that having conversations about how to

see yourself experience healing from any of these things would start with really

understanding our identity in Christ. And so you are free has been that journey and

if you've been on the journey with us these last few episodes or you're new to

this conversation I would encourage you go back to the first few

episodes for this season because we're really working through all the ways that

God wants us to have freedom and today we're going to talk about freedom to grieve and freedom to rest.

Now, these aren't always the lightest topics.

Like, what does it mean to be free to grieve?

I don't want to grieve.

Why would I want to feel free to grieve?

I'd rather avoid grieving. We're going to talk

about why it matters that we grieve and why God meets us in that and how when we understand

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