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.

Hi, this is Gabe and I'm doing a podcast takeover today of the Rhythms for Life Podcast.

You're going to get to hear Rebecca's voice in just a few moments as we have an interview

together. But today we are talking about something so important, something I am so passionate about.

And that is the power of our minds, the way that we think. If we're going to overcome adversity,

it starts with us believing the right things, having the right truth as a foundation,

but then it next becomes how do we take those truths and actually meditate on them,

think about them, and make sure they become part of the way that we act.

As Rebecca's new book, Building a Resilient Life, How Adversity Awakened Strength, Hope and Meaning

states, she has an entire section around one of these rules. You're going to learn so much about

these rules, but one of them is actually about the ability to retrain our brains. That we have

this ability, no matter what our thought patterns have been, no matter what stories or narratives

we've believed in the past, we have the ability to retrain our brains. And that's where this

conversation is going to go today with Deborah Folletta. And before we do, though, I thought I'd

read to you just a little section, give you a little sneak peek out of this new book, Building

a Resilient Life, so that you can get a sense for how Rebecca's approaching this. And here's what

she says, our thoughts shape our perspective, our perspective shapes our attitude and our attitude

determines our outcomes. She writes, my brain runs my show, your brain runs your show. If we want to

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