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.

Welcome back, I'm Rebecca. I'm Gabe and this emotional health series is brought to you by the

Christian Standard Bible and we are hoping that you are enjoying the learning as much as we are

and we're hearing it. We know your feedback of enjoying going deeper into these emotions.

For many of you, it's the first time you've ever heard the idea that there was only eight feelings

and that's a pretty cool feeling. It's a feeling. It's a cool feeling. We're going to add that as an

extra feeling that you can get a framework and I think that's the best tool for all of this is

that when we can kind of simplify and have clarity on what we are feeling, then we feel better

able to confront those things, to admit those things and what we're learning each week is that

we have to admit that feeling and we can't admit it and tell somebody if we can't identify it.

For those of you listening and you're like, I'm having a hard time with that, that's me too.

I have a hard time feeling my feelings. It's the feelings chart which is literally I think

designed for kids but for me has been so helpful because I have to pause long enough and Rebecca

sometimes will catch me and go, what are you really feeling? I don't always identify it correctly.

I think I'm feeling angry about something and the reality is I'm feeling passion or I'm actually

experiencing fear and I don't name it correctly and so everything we're talking about is helping

us develop new nomenclature and a way of thinking about feelings that many of us didn't grow up

hearing. I think it's interesting that we say feeling charts are for kids but it's really for us

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