Hey friends, welcome to Girls Night. I'm Stephanie Maywilsen and I am so happy that you're here.

Each week I have a girlfriend over and we talk through one of the biggest questions we have

about our lives as women. We're talking about friendships and faith and relationships as

off-confidence, about our calling in life and how to live every bit of our lives to the absolute

fault. Life is so much better and easier and absolutely more fun when we navigate it together as

girlfriends and I cannot wait to get started. In today's episode we're talking with my sweet

friend, Mariko Clark or Marri as I call her. Marri is an amazing writer who writes about hard

questions, hope and the Holy Spirit over on her blog, mariko-clark.com. Her writing is deep

and real and always makes me cry in the very best way but she tells the truth about life with

pinches of humor and wit and sarcasm that leave you laughing while you're crying, it's just the best.

Marri is also on my team here working as my assistant in our community manager and

basically just keeping every bit of this ship running. We are such a fan of hers and I'm also

such a huge fan of today's conversation. Today, Marri and I are talking about rest and self-care,

two things that we have been learning a lot about lately, mostly the hard way of course.

We're talking about why it's so hard for us to take care of ourselves as women, how to get over

the guilt and the shame that sometimes comes along with it. We're talking about what God says about

rest and self-care, how to rest, how much rest we actually need, how to find pockets of time where

we can actually take care of ourselves, even in the midst of crazy busy seasons and so much more.

We're also sharing a pretty big piece of news in this episode so make sure to stay tuned until

the very end. The other thing I wanted to make sure to tell y'all is that this is our last episode

of season two of the Girls Night Podcast. I cannot believe we've reached the end so fast. We're

going to be taking a break for a month or so in the name of rest and self-care and also so we can

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