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 today Rebecca this is fun because we're not interviewing anybody else. It's just you and me talking and

We were just reflecting on how it's been a year a little over a, since we began this Rhythms for Life,

podcast, pre-Pandemic, crazy.

Pre-Rythms for Life community.

Like, there's just so much that's happened in the last year around this

Rhythms conversation and I want to

spend a little time for new listeners people who are just understanding this

message or maybe for the first time feeling the importance and weight of it.

Right.

I want to dig back into like the genesis of this idea.

Yeah, for sure, because that foundational piece of rest, I remember studying when we

started this book and just concepting it and dreaming it

because we were living it but we hadn't given it language yet and so I remember

studying reading a statistic that the American Institute of Stress said that 77% of us have

physical symptoms of stress. That's almost four out of five of us. This is pre-Covid

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