Latest / The Rooted Family / Ep 11 | The Invisible Stress Parents Carry (and How to Actually Break Free)
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- Christian Cornish: I recently found out that I've been in a high stress state almost all day and I didn't even realize it. And the only times my body actually showed true rest were when I was slowing down with God or observing Sabbath, which made me wonder how many of us think we're resting, but we're actually just pausing without ever being fully restored. I thought I was a calm, peaceful person, but according to my body, I've been living in a high stress state almost all day, and I didn't even realize it. And it's made me wonder how many of us feel fine on the outside, but are actually caring way more than we were designed to. In this episode, we're talking about the kind of stress that you don't even notice you're caring, how it's affecting your body, Something I've been learning is that there's actually a difference between being relaxed and being restored. Relaxed is when you stop the stress. Like maybe you sit down, you scroll your phone, or just take a quick break. But restorative, that's when your body actually begins to heal. It's when your nervous system settles, like your stress hormones lower, your body starts to repair what's been depleted from those high. Yeah, I love that. And for me personally, painting has been one of the most restorative things. many of you know, I'm a watercolor artist, so I paint for my work. ⁓ I find that when I'm creating, not for productivity, but just for enjoyment, like just for me, my body actually shifts into a calmer state. Like my aura ring ⁓ picks up that I'm in a restorative state when I'm painting. And none of these things are complicated, but they are intentional. And I think that's the difference. Rest doesn't just happen. Restoration has to be chosen. as I started noticing this pattern, I realized something about myself that I think a lot of us can relate to. And something I've noticed that directly impacts that time, like my morning quiet time, is what I do first thing when I wake up. Because the moment I reach for my phone, I can actually feel my body shift back into stress. My phone doesn't create my stress, but it definitely amplifies it before I've had a chance to ground myself. ⁓ I had to ask myself what actually helps me move stress into true ⁓ restoration. ⁓ The first and important for me is starting my morning with God, journaling, ⁓ reading, ⁓ scripture, ⁓ praying. And is of only times my body consistently shows a restorative state. ⁓ And I realized this that can't and how to actually begin living in a more restful, restorative way, God's way. moments of stress throughout the day. And what I realized is that I spent a lot of time in this like relaxed space, but not a lot of time in true restoration. And this is so fascinating. The only times my body shows like deep restorative state is when I'm doing the very things that God has already designed us for, like being with Him, like quiet time with Him, spending time in silence. And it's a reminder that not everything that matters has to be productive. poor peace into my home if I haven't received it first. And hey, real quick before we jump in, one of the best ways you can support this podcast right now is by leaving a written review. So as a small thank you, we're doing a fun giveaway. you a review between now and the end of May 2026, we ⁓ are to give away some Amazon gift cards. So hey, takes less than a minute and it genuinely helps us to get these conversations into more homes and families. So slowing down, honoring the Sabbath, creating like when I'm watercolor painting or just being still. And so it's made me wonder how many of us think we're resting but we're actually just pausing without ever being fully restored. anything you can do there, we greatly appreciate. So, let's dive in. This episode, ⁓ has come from a very ⁓ season. It's a couple months, Well, I went town with some friends, you got sick. And then everybody got sick. And then I stayed sick for like a month and a half. Yeah, that was nuts. You launched... ⁓ your art courses, and you have and saver. Yeah. ⁓ And it's been a lot going on lately. Yeah. I was nervous to do this episode and not because I don't like being vulnerable or honest I really value that. think I was just more nervous because we teach on how to have peaceful homes. I guess I was nervous that we would lose trust with people if we like admitted that we've been stressed out or I've been stressed out more so. No, I've been stressed out. Yeah, you have. Work has been really stressful for you. It has been. It's been one of those seasons I got so stressed. had stress induced eczema. Yeah. Which I've only had two other times in my life. And that's when we moved across country ⁓ times. And it's just like one of those things you have to work on and then let it ride out and go away. But yeah, that, that was really bothering me for about six weeks. Yeah. So I think that I kind of came to the conclusion that like, I don't have anything to be ⁓ ashamed about walking through stress because I realized like it doesn't matter how peaceful of a person you are or how peaceful your home is like every single person on the face of the planet is going to face stress in their life. ⁓ There's different things that are good stressors, what I have personally been walking through the last couple of months have been, ⁓ it's almost this dichotomy of still these peaceful rhythms in our life, but truly undergoing higher stress. because of how quickly our business has been growing. And like adjusting to the new ⁓ that is taking place. Like, praise God, you know, that ⁓ is working through legacy roots and we're seeing growth and we're seeing all these new opportunities. ⁓ I feel like our systems and our support is like catching up to that. So we're trying to make it our way through this transition period. Yeah, the idea of this episode came from your aura ring, has been a really cool device you've had for a few months now. Yeah. ⁓ ⁓ has this really cool chart in it that measures your stress every day that you were checking and you were telling me all about. It has like these different zones ⁓ being like relaxed, restorative. Yeah, so the lowest level ⁓ is restorative state, then relaxed, engaged and then stressed. And the ring tracks throughout the day when I'm each of those states. And so I have found the analytics of this to be so insightful because before the aura ring. I would say that I thought of myself as a pretty cool, calm, collected cucumber. did expect there were a cucumber to out of her mouth. Sometimes I just like to, you know, throw a little in there. ⁓ So I would say that I was actually very surprised at the when I started tracking this every day and seeing, I was like, there's no way, like my ring must be off I was checking out the data on this ring, realizing I was tracking stress peaks over the last couple months, ⁓ and it picking up that I was actually living in that high stress zone a lot of the day, almost every day. And really the only time that I wasn't was either on the Sabbath, or just in my time in the morning, ⁓ but almost all day. like, not even in the engaged state a lot, which is, I would think pretty healthy, but just high stress. And I think the key there that looking back I see now, but I didn't see it as well then is you kind of showed like you can feel fine when you don't have this awareness. Or you can kind of keep living in this state for a while. But internally, like the ring kind of revealed what was really going on inside of you. like I wasn't showing it on the outside necessarily Yeah, Yeah, and I've had that experience too where you know one time we were asked at work like hey share You know your stress levels and I said it was like super high at the time because it was it was just there's a lot going on and I said it was like a nine or a ten and someone I was talking to later said I can't believe That's what you said you were at like you don't carry yourself that way or show it and part of it is like Yeah, like I don't want walk around like in a manner that makes everybody the weight of that or ⁓ I don't want to be putting that on anybody, especially if it's not their fault. So yeah, I'm going to try to carry myself in a way that doesn't show that. Yeah. I think it just comes down to ⁓ How are we handling the stress? Are we handling it in a healthy way? Are we being aware of the stress? So that way we don't constantly live with this like internal stress. Cause at the end of the day, if we're living with high stress all the time, physiologically that's doing quite a damage on our body. I mean, that can hurt your heart physically. It can create ulcers. Like I know people who have gotten stomach ulcers from being so stressed. From work, from being at home, I I ⁓ myself being mom in the NICU last year. Like so many ⁓ parents with sick understandably so, with children who are long-term illnesses, disabilities, needs, ⁓ live with this underlying of stress. I think this can be normal. And at the same time, I believe as Christ followers, the Lord wants to help us to manage that and to thrive in between the stressors of life. Like, I don't think there's any way to delete the stress altogether, if that makes sense. Yeah, that's just human experience. Yeah. And I think you're right. We don't want to show up our families. blowing up on our kids, taking stuff out on them. Cranky, exhausted. Yeah, and teaching them that, hey, that someday this is what it looks like to live your life. Just you're going to be stressed out all the time as an adult. We don't want to set that example for them. We want to create a home that encourages them and teaches them, like, hey, you're going to experience these things. So we are real and authentic about it. But we're also trying our best to model ways to work through it. Yeah, absolutely. And I think I'm a swan. Like you are as beautiful and graceful as this one. I that is not what I meant. Oh, thank you. I appreciate the compliment. I meant like, I think I'm a swan in the sense that, you know, swans are really graceful on top of the water, but you know what's going on underneath the surface is that their legs are like going crazy. ⁓ Just trying to them afloat or moving them along. But above the water, look so elegant and beautiful and graceful. And ⁓ not that I'm saying those things about myself, ⁓ but I think I portray, you know, not to... go into detail, but I think from some childhood wounds ⁓ how have chosen to live in high stress states for a lot of my life. ⁓ I a lot of that being the eldest child, child. ⁓ I carried a lot of high responsibility most of my life. I try to hold it together for a lot of people. mean, just as a mom, I try to hold it together for our family. And I don't want to create an environment in our home where my stress is impacting how I show up. So I think that I hide my stress, but it doesn't like get this, it doesn't remove the stress. as an example I watch our And I've noticed if I'm stressed, I've seen her almost take that on and be like, ⁓ what can I do for you to take this away? ⁓ And that's almost a wake up moment you of like, ⁓ no, like this isn't your, this has nothing to do with you. Like it's not your problem. Not your problem. It's not something for you to take off. Like, thank you. But like you, you realize like, ⁓ crud, needed to get, I need to stop this now because I don't want her to ⁓ take this on. Yeah, that's a good point. yeah, maybe that is what I'm doing is I'm trying to internalize everything so that I'm not putting more stress on the family and I'm just keeping internal. And part of the problem is, is I'm not expressing my need of support maybe in the right ways or delegating in the right ways. But I'm just reminded of 1st Peter 5-7 when he says, cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. And I've realized that I don't think I've been casting my anxiety onto the Lord. I'm like holding on to it thinking I need to be the one to finish this to-do list. I need to be the one to do all these things in the house, keep our family moving forward. And I'm, of that, internalizing all of the stress. but I think I've been carrying things that God never asked me to hold in the first place. And so when that happens, when I carry stress like that, it just doesn't disappear, it just keeps building. I feel like a soda can being shaken up like life is like shaking me up and as we know if you shake up a soda can if you open it it's going to explode everywhere everywhere and with soda can or pop can ⁓ as some like call soda pop which one are you are soda pop or soda pop ⁓ or you just coke maybe just a coke you know I think in Texas they call ⁓ I forgot about that. I'm from up north. We call it pop. But anyway, you pick up a can, you actually don't even know. if like, let's just say somebody could have dropped that can outside, walked in and handed it to you and they have no clue. once they pop that thing, it's actually gonna explode all over them. Yeah, that's probably what it feels like when you see me explode, is you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, like, where is this coming from? I had idea you were feeling this way. ⁓ ⁓ like wide-eyed, like, yeah. Yeah, ⁓ if think back on those moments, it's funny how it almost creates ⁓ even stress because now on top of everything, we have to work through a problem in that moment. And it might take a whole afternoon or evening or day or two to like work that out. So you just added more stress onto stress. Like exploding actually didn't make it any better. There's just no relief. Yeah, it could have just made it worse instead of like, you know, the other option would have been exposing those stressors as they were happening in my daily life versus holding it all in. so, yeah, ⁓ and don't know as a listener if you can relate to this, where you feel like you, for one, don't want reveal your stress to your family because you don't wanna burden them, or two, ⁓ you feel you're the one to hold it all together, so you just gotta deal with it, and you have your to-do list, you have all the things you're doing for work, for the kids, and you just don't. either want to ask for help, you don't know if you can ask for help, and eventually the stress just builds up so much. Yeah, I think you're right. You can suppress that stress. I think we know probably a lot of people in the generation before us especially, like, can suppress it for years. Like, just keep grinding, grinding, grinding, right? Like, boomers just how to grind. They do. And there, but your body does keep score through all of it. It's so true. Yeah, so I can actually remember, think of a few examples, like because I live in this like swan-like state a lot of the time, it's like, I don't just get a little stress, communicate it, move through it, and then get done with it. ⁓ I've had some like significant moments in my college days specifically, and in our marriage. where it built up so much that it was almost like a mental breakdown to the point where I couldn't even think clearly. I am crying like so, so upset. And I feel like I was starting to get to that like a couple of days ago, which is actually what gave us the idea for this episode. I definitely did not have a full out mental breakdown because I started to realize in myself, like I could feel it happening I think that my old pattern would have ⁓ Keep building up. Don't expose it. Don't tell anybody I'm gonna handle it. I'm strong. I can do this and then get to a breaking point where you see me have a mental breakdown. And this time it's like, okay, I'm feeling it. I'm seeing the data on the ring. And I'm like, okay, I see in the future a breakdown happening. What can we do to avoid that from happening? And I didn't wanna blame, like it was so easy in that moment to blame. you for whatever I felt like you weren't doing. it's almost like we resort to either blaming. blaming others or shaming ourselves for that. Oh yeah, I've had that several times in my working career. And it's just been really funny because like someone will get really mad at me as the boss and I'll just be like blindsided. Like, what do you, why? Like I, what, Like I'm pretty nice most of the time. I'm like trying to be really super flexible. Um, I always try to help people out. I'm like, I don't get it. And then sit down and like literally have had these people like explode on me and I'm like, okay, and I've sit down and come to find out later, like, it was unexpressed, expectations, I could answer that question take away the the stress in this moment and ⁓ bring clarity and But like, you know, sometimes people just keep things inside they're afraid to share or are not sure how to like they don't have the skill. And so the stress and everything just builds up inside of them. And like, I'm sitting over here just chugging along like check I've even checked in and had people not say something like they keep they want to hold it in that much. And then come to find out I'm like, like we fixed the problems that all like express it boom within like a day, sometimes two. You know, we make the necessary changes and like move on in a good way. And it was like, wow, that went on for months and it literally didn't have to at all. Yeah. I can see how the natural state of people is to blame ⁓ you know, not take personal responsibility for their stress, but to look at outside sources, like what could be causing me stress? And me, I had, I feel like I've had a turning point. in how to handle my stress for the last couple years. But I was actually really thankful for this moment recently when I was able to really pinpoint my stress and then see it on the aura ring. ⁓ see that, ⁓ was really lacking ⁓ ⁓ in a restorative state. And so I don't know if you as a listener have ever thought about this before, your body being in four different states. But let's be real, as a parent, we are undergoing a lot in our home. I mean, it is for real, the stress that we experience putting kids to bed, feeding them dinner, doing the morning routine, morning rhythm, doing all these things that are part of being a parent. And then you add on top of that working, you add on business, if you own a business, you add on church responsibilities. I mean, there are so many reasons for us as parents to be stressed out as modern day Christ followers. Just a few, just a few. have a buddy who I was just catching up with recently and he was talking to a mentor and he just he's like expressing how overwhelming it felt. this guy is a pastor, was older in his late 50s and just kind of laughed and said, hey, man, I just got to tell you, it just sounds like you're in your 30s, 30s and 40s. was helpful in a moment to realize, ⁓ wait, we are all caring so much. Like we have aging parents. We are trying to grow our careers. You know, have young kids young marriages, ⁓ And we have goals like, buying houses, building like we're always reaching for something and it feels out of reach because we don't have enough resources at this age. We're still trying to make it. Yes. That's so good. And you're absolutely ⁓ right to say like we're all a lot ⁓ and especially at this stage of our lives. Yeah, if you're a millennial parent listening, I mean, you probably relate to all that we just said. We keep adding, as we get older, we add a kid, then we add another kid. then we get a new job, then we get a new house, then we get the boat, and then we have the roll at church and the small group that we're leading, and we just keep adding and adding. And eventually, it's like we have so much going on in our life, where we deleted any kind of rest because we don't have time for rest, and we're living under such pressure, but we don't really realize it because it was added so gradually that we're just functioning. with high strass. Wow. Yeah, I can, I can say I felt that. ⁓ I think that the key ⁓ is how to more ⁓ restorative moments into your daily life. Like my aura ring was showing I was in that restorative state on the Sabbath. ⁓ but how many of our listeners not even taking a Sabbath? a lot of you listening are not experiencing a whole of restoration. You ⁓ may be experiencing moments of restoration, ⁓ but how intentional are they? I know like when I look at my data, when I'm in the state, it's usually during a quiet time, when I'm doing some painting for fun, ⁓ and then for Really the only times my body shows true restoration, like physiologically speaking, is when I'm actually slowing down with intention. And what's cool about is that my body is telling me, God ⁓ already designed. Like he our bodies to be this way. which is I think why he tells us so often in scripture to remember his Sabbath. Cause he knows that we are going to forego the Sabbath the moment that life hands us more. And Sabbath is actually the time that our body physiologically gets a deeper ⁓ level of restoration. It's like we're just maybe doing quick fixes ⁓ to stop the stress in that moment. Like, for example, the two-year-old is losing ⁓ mind ⁓ and you you gotta get dinner on the table. You can't handle volume in home. And so go hide in the bathroom for like 10 minutes. scrolling your phone, waiting for your heartbeat to settle down and you can go back out into the madness. But what's been proven scientifically is those moments of just stopping the stress, quote unquote relaxing. is actually not restoring your body on a deeper level. And I think a lot of people feel that after the fact, like after you get up off the couch and you've been watching TV and scrolling at the same time, you don't feel any better. Yeah, you like stop the stress, but you didn't do anything to heal yourself. Yeah. So, yeah, I think I think that after I realized that there a difference between these different states that you can be in, whether it's like an engaged state, which is great. You're engaged in your work, engage with your kids ⁓ or like a rest, a state, it's so true that starting your morning with God as a rhythm not even just good for your spiritual life. It's not even just about, you know, getting to study your Bible more. It's actually having that restorative time for your soul Tell us a bit, Kayla, like what is morning rhythm? Consist of like what are some components within that that help you? restore daily yeah, so I really love to journal. I've been journaling since I was like in first grade, truly. ⁓ have old, old, old journals. I go through probably a journal every six months. And I absolutely ⁓ being able to just take pen to paper. And I write about some of the things that I'm learning that God's teaching me. And then I will truly just write whatever comes to my mind as far as things that are weighing on me, prayer requests or things I'm struggling with. I know you really love to journal. Like what do you like to journal or how do you use journaling as a part of your morning rhythm? I use journaling in a couple of ways. The first is I have a section of kind of like affirmations or truths. I try to remind myself about myself and they come from a place of healing. So it's actually a way for me to continue like ⁓ healing journey. that I've been on, And so they help me remember God's truths, ⁓ and I start my day that way. Then I usually remind myself about how God has been faithful, taking moment of gratitude. And then I ⁓ kind of use journaling in a really similar way of been on my mind or what's been weighing on me, and really laying those thoughts down. It's interesting we're talking about this. kind of had this realization the last couple days I kind of abandoned ⁓ journaling consistently for a while. Like it was like every three or four days instead every day. And it's funny how coming to the other side of that, I realized how, ooh, that it wasn't helpful. it's kind of like one of those things where like, I'm stressed. I'm going to sleep an extra 15, 20 minutes or something today. So I skipped that step, but when I invest the moments into it, it is so beneficial. It's worth it. going without it would turn out to not be worth it. So that was very interesting for me personally. ⁓ I kind of look at my journaling almost like writing the Psalms because some days I'm journaling and I'm ⁓ just so grateful overjoyed and my writings reflect that and I'm sharing all the exciting things happening in our life. And then there are some days that I'm like, gosh, I sound like Eeyore right now, like so depressed, ⁓ so overwhelmed, like ⁓ wah, wah, you and life is so bad, so terrible, ⁓ But I do think that there like such a beauty in that because it is the human experience, The Psalms reflects such depth of the human experience, which it really is the highs and the lows and everything in between. So it's like you're just kind of writing your own Psalms. Yeah. And you're genuinely expressing. Yeah. That's really important. And what the Psalms always remind me of personally. And sometimes we, you know, just get in our own heads and we think we gotta own it, we think we gotta carry it, we think we gotta keep fighting and pushing through and that just breaks everybody down. We can't pour peace into our home if we haven't received it. And so this rhythm is where we receive the peace we need. I mean, if I don't have a quiet time, I am going to be like a cranky mess to everybody all day. Yeah, so I think wrapping that point up is like at your quiet time with the Lord ⁓ as that restorative time. if I am going through high stress, ⁓ I almost just wake up wanting dig into my planner right away and like be in phone. it's like I instantly wanna like check on the work, check on the to-do list. And I've noticed that kind of creeping back in lately. And that's one that I really want to ditch and go back to like no phone until I do my quiet time, set aside my planner, my to-do list. So that way I can just focus on restoring and not just jump into doing right away in the morning. Yeah, I agree with that. I don't check my email like for work and I don't check my calendar because the moment I do actually I can I feel the physiological change and like my body amp up immediately. And then my brain starts running and instead of like being focused on the journaling, like I stop and I'm like start thinking about the work day and then in like 10 minutes go by and you're like, I haven't written anything in this journal. you just, the restorative time is immediately gone. I feel like the phone is a black hole in the morning. ⁓ it can really hard to set it aside once you pick it up. Absolutely. ⁓ So why don't we share a few other ways that as parents of deeply rooted households, ways that we can practically ⁓ have restorative moments in our day-to-day life. I would say ⁓ need to get out and move and go exercise whether it's going for run going to the gym, it is ⁓ a true stress relief. It feels like you're actually working ⁓ out the stress your body. Like I know it's funny to say like, yeah, I work out, but it does. Like it feels like you're taking away, you're pushing you're actually doing something. And that... does, I know it has scientific things around your hormones and totally releasing different hormones or reducing those stress hormones. Yeah. But it really does like give you a moment to work out the stress, get it away from you. Yeah. And you know, I always come back more clear. all the good hormones are coming through obviously. And it, it, it really does change ⁓ mindset. And I feel the same way when I'm reading a really good book, like if I take a moment, in the afternoon or like even mid morning in between the chaos of like throwing in the laundry and ⁓ getting some work taking care of the babies ⁓ and just have a cup of tea and read a book for 10 minutes. Those little moments feel to me almost like these small Sabbath moments. ⁓ love that. you're bringing up some things that too, we are encouraging with each of these things to have in life as a rhythm that ⁓ when you a regular rhythm around the when you have a a regular rhythm around exercising, when you have a regular rhythm around taking those Sabbath moments throughout the day, it consistently helps root you. ⁓ in the Lord and it also consistently helps keep stress off. if you're someone who is not able to get up early in the morning, maybe you work like a night shift, you know, 12 hour night shift, and then you're like off to take the kids to school and this is like not possible. A great way to be in the word is over your lunch break. And it's perfect because it's like the middle of the day. It's a time when our bodies actually really need to be restored after the stressors of the morning. And just reading a Psalm, like one chapter in Psalms can restore your body. And so I think it's being also creative with how you're gonna get those moments in because as parents of little kids, life is so unpredictable the time. And so yeah, I think you're right. Having rhythms almost gives you a little bit more control. over the unpredictable stress that happens because we can't control if our kids are going to stay healthy. We can't control if our kids are going to be sweet and kind to their siblings all day. Like we can't even control the spilled milk. No, I think if you're listening to this and you realize, ⁓ this like this all resonates, like we just want you to know seen and your experience is normal and it's okay. And we also believe that you can take ownership and find a way through it. Yeah. And that's we want to encourage you in that today. We want you to ⁓ take a moment to pause and ask yourself, Where are you carrying stress? And maybe you have it acknowledged and you don't necessarily need a cool tool like the aura ring. Of course, it's helpful to see. But asking yourself these questions is a way for you to really ⁓ to bring a rhythm into your life that could really help you to be rooted and grounded consistently in the Lord, because you're we're all going to continue to go through these seasons. Yeah. You're gonna hear us say this all the time on the podcast and we're gonna be a broken record, but you don't have to earn rest. Rest is something that we honor and that we remember because the Lord has given us the gift of rest. It is not something that you earn. And I think that you hit it on the head today by sharing that unless we have a rhythm around this, it's just not gonna happen. the kind of rest really only happens with intention. Yeah, it does. And if you are not making in your calendar space in your daily ⁓ life to actually have restorative moments, your to-do list will take over. Yeah. Because it never ends. Yeah. You really do need to choose. To stop. To stop. And so that's our encouragement to you. That's the action step from today. The practical thing to do is to go choose one rhythm this week that's going to bring you some restoration. Yeah, I think we could call it a restorative rhythm. This would be different than like a cleanup rhythm or like a family rhythm. This would be a very intentional restorative rhythm, something that you choose that's like 10 minutes, 10 to 20 minutes. Maybe it's a workout, maybe it's going for a walk after work, maybe it's sitting down and having a little chocolate and a hot tea or pulling out your watercolors and doing some painting, reading a book, playing a board game with the kids, but choose one restorative rhythm that you can intentionally schedule into your daily life. So that way your body is not living in constant stress. Absolutely. So if this episode's hitting home for you, Kayla's actually created something to help you walk this out. Maybe you are like, you need the ideas, because I need the ideas. I am a terrible idea generator. I sit around like, well, what does everybody else think? Because I just cannot come up with these on my own. So I love this tool that you've created. So will you tell us about it? Yeah, I created this guide. It is called the Peaceful Mom Daily Checklist. it's a simple guide will help you create pockets of peace in your day ⁓ because I don't think peace found in doing less. As moms, we just, there's hardly few things we can give up. ⁓ But I think it's found in the right things with intention. ⁓ And so I put together this of ways that you can slow down. in your daily life as a mom, whether you're a full-time working mom, if you're a stay-at-home mom or a business mom, whatever your life looks like, this will help you to find those little pockets of peace within your busy day. I absolutely love that. Yeah, it's great. So check that out in the episode description. We really believe it'll give you a great place to start. Yeah. Thank you so much for being here for this episode and for just creating space for us to be vulnerable with you today because we are both still in the process of this. I am personally learning that God's way of living is not rushed. It's not pressured. It's not about constantly striving, even the good things that are for God. It's about being steady. It's about being rooted and that life of persevering through hardship and staying the course, that is available to all of us and peace is available through the hard. Yeah, just to end this by bringing it back to the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus ends it by saying, build your foundation on the rock not on the sand. ⁓ so today, that's what our goal is, is to build our foundation on the rock. So thanks for joining us for another episode of the Rooted Family Podcast. We are so glad you were here with us and we'll see you again next time.