S5 Ep140: Cultivating Rest and Renewal with Rebekah Lyons

Live Well Anyway

MacKenzie Koppa

Books, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Arts

4.6 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Using four forms of rest to combat stress and anxiety. Show Notes-

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On today’s episode of Cultivating the Lovely, host MacKenzie Koppa talks with author and speaker Rebekah Lyons about her new book Rhythms of Renewal: Trading Stress and Anxiety for a Life of Peace and Purpose. Rebekah and her husband Gabe, along with their four children, live and work in Franklin, Tennessee. Together MacKenzie and Rebekah talk about both the why’s and how’s of creating your own rhythms of renewal, including:

How Rebekah came to write this book on the topic of rest and renewal
Some of the challenges we face in the digital age to establishing good habits of rest and health
How our bodies are wired to deal with stress and trap trauma
The problem with just medicating to cope instead of truly healing
Recognizing the need to get back in touch with our humanity
Addressing the real physical components of holistic healing
The power of true forgiveness in our own lives (MacKenzie mentions this episode of The Ultimate Health Podcast featuring an interview with Dave Asprey. The forgiveness and gratitude link portion begins around 57:13.)
Seeking God’s created natural rhythms for wellness
Seeing the way that faith and science actually work together
How much God cares about rest and Sabbath
The destructive affect of the digital and virtual reality age on relationships and intimacy
The problem of shame
How being creative helps us come alive
Borrowing hope from others
What Rebekah’s typical day looks like

Get ready for the coming year in the Cultivating the Lovely community by getting your PowerSheets from Cultivate What Matters. Go to boldturquoise.com/powersheets to order.

Current Lovelies-

Rebekah: bringing in fresh flowers and growing herbs

MacKenzie: adjusting to the darker evenings with lower light

Resources Mentioned- Books:

Rhythms of Renewal

The Soul of Shame

Find Rebekah-

You can find Rebekah at rebekahlyons.com. She and her husband have a podcast called Rhythms for Life. You can also follow her on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Find MacKenzie-

You can find MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram, Facebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! You can also listen to her family-friendly podcast The Same Page!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	And so this book is really about rhythms that I believe are for our vitality, our flourishing,
0:05.0	our freedom, our health, sustained, spiritual, physical, relational, and vocational health.
0:11.9	Rest, Rest, Connect, Create. That is it. Welcome to Cultivating the Lovely.
0:26.8	I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa.
0:28.7	And around here, we know that life is hard and we have to do everything we can to just make it a little bit more lovely.
0:35.0	So it's my mission to bring you great conversations,
0:42.2	practical tools and information, and a healthy dose of community to help make those things happen.
0:46.4	If you want to find out more, you can go to our website at cultivating thelovely.com,
0:51.8	visit our amazing membership community at patreon.com slash cultivating the lovely, or by connecting with me on Instagram, which is one of my favorite places to
0:54.5	interact with all of you.
0:55.7	You can find me at McKenzie Kappa.
0:57.8	Thanks so much for joining me today.
1:02.3	Ladies, this week on the podcast, we talk a lot about stress and anxiety, things that I've
1:07.0	been very familiar with over the last few years, and we're talking about it with
1:11.2	Rebecca Lyons, who's the author of the new book Rhythms of Renewal. But speaking of all of that
1:16.9	stress that I have been going through and anxiety, I just wanted to say thank you to all of you
1:23.0	who prayed during the week that we were in court, and for all of you who have continued to pray as we
1:28.7	wait on the judge's decision for the verdict of my divorce trial, we still wait. We don't know
1:34.8	when we will know what his decisions are. It could be this week. It could be six months from now.
1:41.7	So if you could all just keep those prayers coming about where my kids will end up
1:46.6	and all of those little logistics that will forever shape our lives, I would so, so appreciate it.
1:54.5	And I'll be honest, the trial week was brutal.
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