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.

And I'm Gabe, and here we are.

It's election week. Rhythms for life more important than ever.

Yes it is.

Right. I mean that's one of the conversations we always have here but how important rhythms are to keep us on track

staying mentally healthy emotionally healthy physically healthy spiritually healthy

especially when there's extra tension and chaos and so today we just want to spend time

Rebecca and I talking through a little bit about this week in particular and

and specifically what it means to try to walk out life after a contentious moment, an election that's been confusing or

been a lot of chaos. It doesn't always get settled as quickly or as easily as

maybe you would hope and that can create some extra challenges or anxiety right

stress frustration and a lot of us thought this would possibly be the case probably

be the case with all the mail-in ballots but still to be sitting in

the tension of that waiting can create a lot of fear animosity all of the above

we got to fight all that because that's fear, animosity, all of the above.

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