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 welcome to another episode of the emotional health

series brought to you by Christian Standard Bible and we're excited today to be getting into this

continued depth plunging the depths and we're talking, I'm not excited because we're talking

about guilt. I know, right? I don't know why I said excited because I don't like feeling guilty.

Right. I know. Could there be a gift of guilt? And of course there is. As you've got to know chip

over this season, you understand that every one of these emotions has an impairment a way that we

take that feeling and we run the wrong direction with it and we cope and we do we don't get healthy

and then there's the emotional healthy way in which we actually take something like guilt and we

know how to respond and we're going to get into all of that with chip. Yeah. So the gift of guilt

truly is that we're able to acknowledge something that we did wrong. It doesn't mean we're condemned

or full of shame, but we can at least own I did something wrong, not that I am something wrong.

But when we acknowledge guilt, that's that there's a conviction attached to that that we need to

make right and we need to go to the other person and and be honest about that. Sometimes we hide

from guilt because we feel so much toxic shame that we can't ever get it right. But the gift

is that guilt is a symptom for going I need to make something right with someone else.

Yeah. And I think as we're learning with each of these feelings, they are gifts. We got to embrace

them. It's hard sometimes. But I know for me as we'll talk about when when I start to feel guilt,

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