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Welcome back I'm Rebecca. And I'm Gabe and we're kicking off a new series called Emotional Health

and it's a topic we're back and I've talked about for the last several years of the rhythms

for Life Podcast but we want to go a little bit deeper. Yes as you know that you've been on this

journey with us and some of you are new but we have been talking about this for a long time

with so many experts that are giving us insights into emotional health but this particular series

we have been planning for in the works behind the scenes for a while because it's been

impacting us personally this content and we were so excited to share it with you.

Yeah you know this journey for me an emotional health and trying to better grow in that area for

myself started many years ago I've spoken pretty openly about that over these last few years but

I think what clicked for me was when I came across an expert a counselor, a coach, an author

named Dr. Chip Dodd and there was a book a friend recommended to me called Voice of the Heart

and the Voice of the Heart book laid out for me the eight emotions that God's given us these eight

feelings that are a gift from God and for me that was new that was new information. Rebecca's

already always seemed to appreciate feelings but I kind of put my arms up a little bit my hands up

I kind of try to pause the conversation sometimes when it's moving into being too emotional and

that has been the journey that I've been trying to go on. Right this bell selling book the Voice of

the Heart actually came out in 2001 and I wish we'd grabbed it then but we were a little late

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