Hey friends, welcome to the Rhythms for Life Podcast, where each week we talk about rhythms

for building resilience, so you can take charge of your mental, spiritual, and relational help.

These ideas come from Rebecca's best-selling book Building a Resilient Life,

How Adversity Awakened Strength, Hope, and Meaning.

So grab your copy, invite your friends, and let's build resilience together.

Welcome back, I'm Rebecca. And I'm Gabe, and it's an exciting week.

I know. It's your birthday. It is. Coming up, two days.

I know. Birthday, Mother's Day weekend, always is a combo. I love it.

I know, and then just this last Saturday, Kennedy graduated from high school. It's our third

high school graduate. I know, it's wild. Yeah, lots happening. It's a fun season.

Lots of lots of launching, books, brands, podcasts, and kids.

Well, how's the first week been? You've got this message out in the world on resilience.

I know I keep seeing the messages and texts from friends, but also just new people and

reviews online, and it just seems so encouraging. It's so encouraging. People are just saying,

you know, I'm getting into this, and it's really resonating, and that is a grace, right? Because

you just, you hope it does. I mean, it resonated with me, and I cried, you know, in some of the

stories, but then also just the hope, you know, I really hope that it is a grace of encouragement

for people right now, because everyone knows things are hard, so we don't need to continue

to repeat the obvious. But what I hope they take from this is that while things are hard,

there is something beautiful that's emerging. Yeah, and this idea of resilience, and we're

going to talk about it in our next season throughout the summer, is so important to start to wrestle

with. You layout in the book, five rules. For those of you listening, you haven't heard it yet,

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