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. And I'm Gabe, and it's time for a new season. It's season seven.

Yes, it is. Several of you guys have been asking, like, when is the podcast coming back?

And so here we are. Yes. Here we are. We took a pause as we prepared for some fun things.

We're practicing our rhythms. Yes, we are. We needed to rest. We did.

Well, we need to also plan and prepare and connect and create.

So you're going to get some fun in the season. We're going to have some video. We have a new studio.

We've been working. Our team is just amazing. We have incredible interviews lined up

for this season. I'm so excited about. And we're talking about this season,

overcoming adversity, which is such a critical component to the bigger story that you're telling

with Spring when your book releases May 2nd on building a resilient life, how adversity,

a wake and strength, hope, and meaning. And so much of what we'll be talking about

is this part of resilience that is the part like most of us don't want to deal with adversity.

We'd rather go and take the coasting route. And yet I know what you've learned from your research,

looking at the science, the critical piece of being resilient is overcoming adversity.

Right. Honestly, I got the idea for this book about four months into lockdown.

And I really initially wanted to give this for our kids, like, write this about the next generation.

Because we found in those early days of COVID that we were, I wasn't feeling all that resilient.

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