Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.com, and you're listening to the Flying Free

podcast, a support resource for women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden

emotional and spiritual abuse. Welcome to episode 19 of the Flying Free Podcast. Today we have Sarah McDougal of

Sarah McDougal.com and she's going to be talking with us about self-care.

Welcome Sarah. I'm going to tell them a little bit about you but first I want to say

hello. Hi I'm so glad to be here. Thank you for joining us.

Sarah McDougal is an author, speaker,

and Abuse Recovery Coach who works exclusively

with female survivors of abuse in the faith community.

So she is talking right directly to us. She offers

online coaching for both groups and individuals available internationally for

women recovering from abuse.

McDougal also conducts training events for churches and

organizations on how to recognize and respond to abuse,

as well as inspirational events focused on God's love and healing for women and teen girls.

I'm super excited about the topic today because self-care is something that typically we as

women of faith think is off limits for us because it's not it's not it's

selfish self-care it's got the word self in it and so it's selfish and if we are taking care of ourselves then we're not taking care of

other you know we're spending our time not that precious time not taking care of

other people which is our job as Christian women right that's right

totally how do we how do we we not exactly how do we reconcile that idea of selfishness and how do we how are we able you know there's so many different questions that we could ask about that but why don't you just dive in and tell us what you think what you think about the idea of self-care being selfish or is it something

that we actually should be doing as Christians?

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