Taking Care of Yourself in Trying Times

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

If we want to be famous at home, we have to take care of ourselves. In this episode, Josh and Christi talk about emotional and spiritual ways to take care of yourself right now, especially in the midst of the fear and overwhelm in this cultural moment.

Josh and Christi talk about:

* Practical ways they have intentionally taken care of themselves the last couple of weeks.* Ways to limit screens or other open doors to fear.* How to recognize the one self-care practice you need right now for your soul.

Show Notes:

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2 TIMOTHY 1:7: For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

ACTS CHAPTER 4: All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own.

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0:00.0	praying in terms of just literal breath prayers when you feel that overwhelm and it's usually because
0:07.3	you have no control it's a lack of control and so often you might even see yourself trying to regain
0:13.2	control in other areas of your life because you are so desperate to be able to control something in
0:18.8	your environment and that could go into really unhealthy things it It could go into really healthy things. You are listening to the Famous at Home
0:25.4	podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub. Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know
0:31.9	that we were famous at home. Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast.
0:39.5	Today we're talking about self-care because we are living in a very weird, anxious world
0:46.7	right now.
0:47.6	And if you are working, running a family, running a business, doing whatever, like,
0:53.6	it is all of the things.
0:56.2	It's just, it's sending your kids back to school in addition to all that. And, you know,
1:01.5	it's just a weird time. And we have found for ourselves in particular, we have needed to do
1:07.9	some extra self-care lately in order to show up well for those that we love
1:11.6	and those that we do, those that we get to serve. And so we just wanted to jump on and talk about that
1:16.5	today because I feel like it's just a conversation we all need. If we truly want to be famous at home,
1:21.4	we've got to take care of ourselves. We love because he first loved us. So that first part
1:25.9	flows out of our relationship with God.
1:31.3	But then out of that, what does that look like for each of us so that we can show up well in our relationships with our spouses and then also with our kids? Absolutely. I think the more just
1:37.0	friends, people that we talk to, I think we're all just feeling the heaviness right now.
1:42.0	It's been a long season of heaviness and this is just a super
1:45.4	amplified season right now. And so this is something we address like in leader's heart
1:50.2	for this year-long cohort because it's so pivotal for those who lead. And in whatever capacity
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