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 we are excited for the conversations to keep

happening around parenting and summertime. It's been a good summer so far for us. Because we just

got back from horseback riding. I know. Talk about parenting. It was a family camp where the kids had

their thing. We had our thing. We did definitely have some parenting moments but for the most part

we had no idea where our kids were. No, they were running around having a blast. This is all

happening at Lost Valley Ranch, one of our favorite places to go and we've been going there in

the summers for a while for a few days and enjoying that and then in the fall we go back and get to

host our couples retreat. Yes. But the thing about Lost Valley, you caught your first major trout.

Well, you went fly fishing with me. I feel like my ever trout. I mean last year I caught a like a baby

trout with like a line in a reel and I thought like my head almost exploded. I was like, whoa,

this is fishing. But this year was next level because you had us do like a 10 day or 10 day 10 hour.

It felt like good for you. A 10 hour excursion on the river. Well, this is interesting about our

marriage, right? And rhythms. It's like I knew you did not want to go fly fishing. But I knew once

you got out there, you would love the environment. You'd love standing in the water with your waiters on.

You'd love learning about it. But it was going to take a little bit to get you there. And I was

impressed. You were up for it. You weren't necessarily understanding what those were going to be like.

But you were willing to take the risk, learn something new, seek adventure. And the result was you

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