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.

I'm Rebecca and I'm Gabe and feels like summer's here. It is. I know I think when summer hits this year it's like you feel like you've kind of been having summer at least the kids have been home for two months.

We had a two month ramp up.

It's not quite the way summer's supposed to feel.

I know when our kids just finished school

and they were a little disappointed that we didn't do like a typical celebration

for the last day of school. It so anticlimactic it was like yeah I

turned in my Google homework and think I'm done yeah I'm like I hope my grades where I

thought it was going to be and then we're all checking in all weekend like

when do we when do we actually celebrate so we've got Kaid and Joy that are both

graduates Kaids is delayed I guess in person till, they're hoping he can walk,

but he gets to do a video this week,

which that's gonna be fun for his graduation.

And I know there's so many people listening

who have friends and family members

who are going through this too and it's it just

...