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. Hi,

I'm Gabe Lyons and we are so glad that you've joined us. This is our Marriage and Parenting

series brought to you by RO. You'll hear more about that amazing resource we're using it in our

home with our kids, with our phones and I can't wait for you to check it out. They've got an incredible

offer for all of our listeners. But today we're talking with Jenny Allen who leads the if-gathering.

She's an author but we're really peeling back the layers and a conversation that many people

haven't heard with Jenny which is getting into how they think about launching their kids well. They

have one engaged to be married. They have another one that runs his own business, college students,

kids in the home. They've adopted. There's so much wisdom in this conversation that for those of

you listening who you're grappling with the reality of parenting and you sometimes feel like a

failure. I know we feel like that a lot of the time. You're going to be encouraged today.

Yeah, so because it's that time of year, you know, we're the end of July going into August. We're

all thinking about the new school year and so for some of you, that means you're sending your kids

off to college. You really are about to launch. I've seen some of you comment when I did Kennedy's

birthday post last week that she's a rising senior and this is her last year at home and it just

really starts to hit and come quick and several of you commented on on Instagram that you're in

that same boat and I know when we went through that with Pierce, the first time last summer, we were

a mess and now that he's been home all summer, we don't want him to leave again. It's so hard.

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