This is Jenny Allen from you. My heart

throbs, my strength fails me. Psalm 38, 9 through 10.

Hey guys, I really, really don't want to talk about this one because I'm so afraid I have so much of this in my life

through quarantine. I think that when I get sad I'm a seven on the inigram so I love me

some coping I love me some comfort but what I loved in preparing for this episode was

realizing that coping isn't all bad and it's something that can be really

really helpful to us when we are going through difficulty,

it's just what is healthy coping and what is unhealthy coping, right?

We cannot be people that choose unhealthy coping.

And I think a lot of us, if we're really candid,

have chosen some unhealthy coping through this crazy

time where we all are feeling undone. If you're just joining me for this episode

we're in the midst of a season called undone and it's all the different ways that we are struggling and

wrestling during the season of COVID and during this pandemic and this crazy

year called 2020. So we're talking about all the things and coping is certainly one of those issues that I don't love to talk about because again don't want to feel convicted on this.

So let me kind of define what coping means. So coping strategies are actions we take

consciously or unconsciously to deal with stress,

problems, or uncomfortable emotions.

And so, of course, during a season

where a lot of uncomfortable emotions and stresses

are hitting all of us

us,

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