S3 1: An Invitation to Rest with Ashley Hales
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The constant noise of our culture often distracts us from developing spiritual habits. The start of a new year is a great time to reevaluate our spiritual lives and how we’re incorporating godly habits into our day-to-day lives. Join Sarah and Erin as they speak with Ashley Hales about her book A Spacious Life on the importance of a rhythm of rest.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Strong Women Podcast, where each week we explore a deeper understanding of the humanity, value, intellect, and creativity of women. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm Erin Kunkel. |
| 0:11.8 | And I'm Sarah Stone Street. We're so glad you're here. |
| 0:18.9 | Welcome back to the Strong Women podcast. Today on the podcast, our guest is Ashley Hales. And Ashley is the author of a book that Sarah and I both read and we loved it. And one of the reasons we loved it is that it challenged us to think differently about life and time and rest and all the things that just are a part of our everyday life. |
| 0:43.4 | The title of the book is A Spacious Life, Trading Hustle and Hurry for the Goodness of Limits. |
| 0:51.7 | Doesn't that sound so intriguing audience? |
| 0:56.4 | Okay, so I'll tell you a little bit about Ashley. |
| 1:05.1 | She has her PhD from the University of Edinburgh, and it's in English literature. But Ashley is a writer and a speaker, and she's the host of a podcast called Finding Holy. And she's also written another book called Finding Holy in the Suburbs. |
| 1:15.9 | But as I say, the book we're going to talk to her today is A Spacious Life. |
| 1:19.7 | So Ashley, thank you so much for coming on with Sarah and I. |
| 1:23.5 | You are so welcome. |
| 1:24.7 | I'm glad to be here. |
| 1:25.6 | Thanks. |
| 1:26.6 | Okay, Ashley, we love to start with our guests and say, tell us about how you grew up. |
| 1:31.4 | Did you grow up in a Christian home? Yeah, I did. Interestingly, my parents really came to faith later, |
| 1:37.3 | though, but by the time I arrived, they were part of a church and committed churchgoers, and |
| 1:43.3 | really, like, their own faith was really growing |
| 1:45.8 | by leaps and bounds. So I feel like though I had a probably really typical kind of evangelical |
| 1:51.1 | childhood that definitely my parents started something new for their family. My parents came to |
| 1:57.3 | faith later in life and then were just like 180. So that's all I ever knew was just |
| 2:03.2 | really faithful, but they were first generation, basically. So how did you end up coming to |
| 2:09.9 | Faith Ashley? Because we know you grew up in a Christian home, which is great, but that does not |
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