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, I'm Rebecca. I'm Gabe, and it's summertime. I hope you guys have had a great

month of June. It's going fast. It's kind of going too fast. Yeah. I don't know if you guys

feel that way or not, but for us, every time we get to the middle of the summer, we're like,

wait, where's our summer going? But July is going to be good too. And I know this weekend

represents kind of that shift towards July 4th. Many of you know we just got back from

Las Valley last week. And I'm still sore. I mean, riding horses is fun, but several days of riding

horses and you feel muscles. Kind of living around her. Or bones, I should say.

Bones. But it's so fun because Joy really has gotten to this horse show the last year,

and she pretends like she's riding horse at all times when we're just driving around Franklin.

And so it was nice for her to actually, you know, she goes slow on a real horse. She doesn't,

you know, in her mind, she's racing a horse across the mountains. But it's like a grandma horse

that they're walking very slowly. Yeah. But she makes all the sounds. She goes easy girl. Easy.

She's fun. She's growing up quick. And speaking of joy, she just had a birthday on Mane. She is

nine now, which is wild. It's crazy. She's been with us three and a half years. And so much has

changed. I was reflecting on this recently as I was kind of thinking about her birthday and preparing

for it. And even just, you know, those initial months of trauma, quite frankly, coming into our

home displacement, obviously for everyone else, but also remembering how much she had night tears

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