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 a very special day. I want everybody to join me

right now because today is Rebecca's birthday. It's her birthday. Happy birthday huh? Let's all

sing ready. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.

If Joy was here she'd be the loudest of all for sure. It's just crazy that she would, I mean,

I'm shocked that you're doing it but she's doing this podcast in her birthday suit. It's just

amazing. So a whole of you listeners. I'll try to imagine that.

Whole podcast team. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, we don't do that. Very well-closed.

That's true. But thanks Gabe. But I think it's special on my mind because we're coming out of this

very true. The marriage retreat. We had so many incredible conversations that

were about vulnerability and nakedness and so many things that can only happen in a room

where you're talking about marriage and possibly literally. But no, so many people you know

over 50 couples with us and just it's always amazing when we get to be with couples and have

these experiences and and you see people literally before your eyes the light turning on about

just some of these these tweaks that they need to make in their conversations and they're listening

to one another and being reminded of why they fell in love and and how gods at work in this journey

and it's it's always so encouraging because marriages are it feels like under assault. Yes.

And so this this felt like a little bit of an act of war against the assault with these couples.

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