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7 Forms of Rest: Physical, Mental, Emotional
What if the missing piece in your recovery journey isn't more discipline or accountability, but specific kinds of rest you've been overlooking?
Dr. Sondra Dalton-Smith's concept of "sacred rest" offers a framework for understanding why many of us remain stuck in cycles of unwanted sexual behavior despite our best efforts. Kyle Bowman and I explore how three distinct types of rest—physical, mental, and emotional—directly impact our ability to heal from sexual brokenness.
This conversation challenges the subtle Gnosticism that pervades Christian thinking—the idea that physical limitations are spiritual weaknesses rather than divine design. Even Jesus slept! Your recovery journey might transform not through trying harder but through resting more intentionally in the ways your body, mind, and heart truly need.
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Boundaries by Cloud and Townsend
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What if a lack of specific kinds of rest is hampering your recovery efforts? What if healing from betrayal trauma has to do with being tired in ways that sleep alone cannot heal? What if your parenting looks more like busy and crowded American culture and less like authentic culture, authentic Christian culture that creates a space for your children to thrive, including in their sexuality? Today I'm joined by Kyle Bowman, our director of ministry. Kyle, welcome, so glad to have you on Becoming Whole today. Always a joy to speak with you.
Speaker 2:Always a joy to be with you too, James.
Speaker 1:And we're going to explore a book called Sacred Rest by a medical doctor named Sondra Dalton-Smith. This is a book. She's not doing hard science in this book, but she's observing in her primary care practice types of rest that people need. She says at one point in the book sleeping in for another few hours on a Saturday might not be what you need. She identifies seven different types of rest. So we're going to get into those today and we're specifically going to look at how those are actually key in your recovery from sexual brokenness.
Speaker 1:And I just want to remind you that a few months ago, we put out a podcast about basically our limits. Right, we talked about breathing, hydration, food, sleep and even exercise and how all of those at least the first four are God-given limits. We literally need air or we will not survive, and so part of what we're trying to do, friends, is we're trying to bring us into a fullness of hey, we are both spiritual and physical creatures. We talk a lot about what it means to grow spiritually on this podcast, being connected with the Lord, but we also need to recognize that God made us physical creatures, and so if we were to say I have no limits because in God I'm unlimited. That just simply wouldn't be true. He designed us to need things most fundamentally himself, but also rest that comes from him. Okay, so we're going to see. This might end up being one or two episodes, but we're going to get into these seven kinds of rest and look at how these can really aid you in your recovery journey.
Speaker 1:So, without further ado, number one is physical rest. Dalton Smith defines this as resting the body. This is the most obvious. It's probably the first thing you thought of when you heard the word rest and she gets into when you need it. You need it when your body is tired, especially after physical exertion. She also talks about how to get it. Again the podcast from a few months ago. You can check out our episodes on physical disciplines right Breathing, hydration, sleep but I want to just highlight one here that we didn't touch on in that episode.
Speaker 1:This is a really interesting one, kyle, I don't know if you've ever done this, but Dr Dolan-Smith encourages a five-minute body scan where you literally lay down or sit down in a comfortable enough position. Body scan where you literally lay down or sit down in a comfortable enough position and you're just. You know, maybe you're taking some somewhat deep breaths, but you're just noticing your body, noticing okay, I've got tension in my jaw right now. I'm holding my stomach really tight, my leg feels pain, I'm feeling pain in my knee, or this is so antithetical, kyle, to American culture. It's like can I just distract myself from every bit of discomfort and pain 24-7?. But what I found? I haven't done it in a little while, but I found that, whoa, there's so much more going on here and I can kind of invite Jesus into those places Like Lord. I am really tense in my back right now and just noticing that and kind of bringing that to him. Kyle, have you ever experienced that? Or how have you found physical rest to help in recovery?
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely, and the body scan is really helpful because I think sometimes people don't realize that things that happen in the course of the day you can hold in your body. You can hold emotion in your body, you can hold trauma in your body and you may realize that there is a specific place in your body that you're holding it, a specific place in your body that you're holding it. So it's really important to be able to notice what's happening physically, and I think the other thing that that does is it also alerts you to. Is there something physically that I need to address, because our culture is really big on. Let's push through the pain, right.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:You know I pop something. You know I take some aspirin or some Tylenol or whatever and.
Speaker 2:I push through it, you know, and I get through it, and then when I can get on the other side, then maybe I'll take some time and rest, but that is so damaging to the recovery process. Your body being in good order is one of the most important things that can help you be successful in continued recovery. Be successful in continued recovery Because when something is hurting, when something is out of whack, you're going to want to do something to make it feel better.
Speaker 1:Kyle, when I, you know, I was about a year into my recovery and I was no longer going to pornography and masturbation, I loved to hike. Something I noticed after having some measure of sobriety was that I started getting tension headaches on hikes. This is really frustrating. It's still been a journey I've been on. It's gotten a lot better over the years. I think I mentioned in that previous episode I was referencing that electrolytes have really helped.
Speaker 1:But one of the things I noticed, kyle, is that for me and for so many others, part of what we're actually medicating through our sexual behavior, part of what your spouse, who might be struggling with pornography, or those who are listening who struggle, you might be actually medicating physical tension and our emotions.
Speaker 1:We're going to get into emotional rest in just a bit that's one of the seven but our emotions are felt physically and so so much of the anxiety, kyle, that I was pushing down all those years was now surfacing and perhaps even if I was still in the midst of the addiction, if I were to do this kind of body scan, I might have noticed like whoa, there's so much. My body's like a, like it feels like an, you know, uh, waves, tossing and turning, like it is not at rest, and maybe there could have even been an invitation there for the lord to help me learn how to attune to calm myself. But instead of doing that, I was calming myself in a large part through the chemical release of masturbation that did so much to calm my body down, brought so much peace to my muscles, but it was coping in a sinful way that didn't actually bring life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and again, like I think, even now, as I think about talking to some of my clients about checking in with their bodies, it's a light bulb.
Speaker 2:So it's sort of this moment where they go wait, like I didn't realize that this pain in my knee that's been bothering me and bothering me and bothering me is causing me to turn and seek some sort of comfort because they they might think that it was because of something else. It was, oh, I just today was just, I just felt out of sorts, but it could be physical pain that you've gotten so used to dealing with that you don't realize that there is this moment that you're using to turn towards something else, to even get that out of your brain. And so I really I often talk to clients about just checking in with their body. What are you feeling, Not only emotionally, but what are you feeling in your body when some things are coming up for you, when you're looking to turn toward hooking up or masturbation or whatever, whatever you're turning to Check in with your body just to see what's happening and how you're feeling physically.
Speaker 1:I'm also reminded, kyle, that so many of the major heresies throughout Christianity have been heresies of Gnosticism. Spiritual or mental, or ethereal is good, physical or bodily is bad, it's whatever. And so there's something here that we're saying. To pushing against that, we're saying hey, god actually cares for your body. Uh, jesus slept. We have accounts of that. He actually slept, that he was not awake 24, seven, right. And so his body, as as in his humanity, fully God, fully man in his humanity, needed sleep to repair. What an amazing thought.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:We got to keep moving. Mental rest is number two. So now we are going toward that the mental side of things. Dr Darlene Smith defines this as relinquishing the thoughts entering the mind and moving towards cerebral stillness. Oof cerebral stillness not something I'm the best at. She says you need it after mental exertion, especially when you're noticing your thoughts ruminate. Okay, so let me give a few ways that we can get it and we'll talk about it. This is really interesting. I learned this recently.
Speaker 1:Thomas Aquinas, one of the heavyweight Christian thinkers of the last 2000 years. He actually taught that we need this is wild. Like this is a guy 700 years ago, a monk. This is not what we would expect from a monk. Okay, he says we need fun when we are mentally tired. He says that if we just try to go to sleep, our dreams don't shut. You know our mind doesn't shut off and we're still going to maybe be in mental stress or lack of stillness. We actually need fun and, kyle, I see you smiling because I haven't. I can't count the amount of times you've told me this in our supervision times.
Speaker 1:What are you doing for fun? What are you doing to enjoy something for its own sake? So one way to think about this is you might enjoy going to the gym because it's good, it's physical exercise, but if you wouldn't do it for its own sake, if you wouldn't do it without the physical benefits, that's not what we're talking about here. You need fun, obviously. You need stuff like that too. Exercise is so good, but you need fun things that you would do even if they didn't provide, like, a secondary benefit. Um, like, you know, physical health or whatever. So, kyle, just stop right there for a second. Like, what do you? How do you think about this with clients when they're stuck in there? Um, you especially work with women who are dealing with unwanted sexual behaviors. Like, how do you encourage them toward fun and what have you found with that?
Speaker 2:Some of it is just having a conversation around what is it that is fun for you and and and, just like you talked about? You know, some people will talk about exercise and again it's like, ok, is it fun? Or like are you doing it because I know I need to keep my body in shape? What are the things that, if I were to ask you about it right now, you would instantly start to smile, and that's usually what I try to use as an indicator for experiencing some joy and fun, because so many people will name things that they enjoy and but it might not necessarily be joyful as they do it. They do it because, like, it's not a terrible thing, I don't have to power my way through it, but it's not this thing that I just light up if somebody talks about it.
Speaker 1:Right, we're going to link in our show notes. In a way can we call this the healthy holy alternatives list, because we actually need good pleasure in part of our journey of overcoming unhealthy or sinful forms of pleasure. So that is an awesome thing. I love bringing that up with clients. I love it when it comes up in Awaken 360. And it's such. It is for you and so many of the things we found fun as kids. We stopped when we got into our sexual behavior.
Speaker 1:Okay, another way to have some mental rest is getting away from media. Man, getting a tech fast. I brought this up before having a screen break. We're going to get more into that later with another form of rest called sensory. But getting away from media can actually help with mental rest. The news media is constantly, I've noticed. Actually, I go to the gym and in the men's locker room they have CNN going on 24-7. And I'll glance up at the headline some terrible things happening somewhere in the country or the world all the time. I mean they can always find it. If something terrible is happening, they're going to let us know, even if it bears nothing on our actual life, even if we could do nothing about it. So getting away from media. And one more I'll throw out there.
Speaker 1:This is one of her recommendations in the book Dr Dalton Smith. She says observe your thoughts without analyzing or judging. I don't know about you, kyle, but I can often get into when I'm in that place of you know, rumination. It's really hard to just observe thoughts, thoughts. But I imagine you found this to be helpful too. Allowing your thoughts to kind of move through without trying to, I don't know, do something intense with them can really be helpful to bring us toward rest. Maybe you're doing that side by side with Jesus, like Jesus, help me to just notice this stuff going on in my brain.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think too, what's helpful is maybe for some people it's helpful to just get the things out. Like, maybe, especially at night, it can be hard to turn your brain off before you go to bed, because maybe you're thinking about stuff from the day, maybe you're thinking about the things you have to do tomorrow or next week, or you know doctor's appointments or whatever they are. Maybe it's there's some ideas and thoughts that you have that you've been thinking about, just things you want to put some mental energy toward. It might be helpful to keep a pad and paper next to your bed and before you go to bed hey, here's some things that I've been thinking about, here's some things that are on my mind to sort of get them out of your brain and to leave it, which keeps you from having to analyze them to. You know, go into introspection where you're going. Oh, I can't believe I've got this on my mind.
Speaker 2:I need to stop thinking about this, or you know beating yourself up over something that took place earlier in the day or the week, and so why not get it out, in a way, and put it away? Like you know, I would say, get a notebook where it's closed, where you can write it, close it, put it away and then you can make a decision as to whether or not you need to go back to it. You know, it might be something that you just need to capture because maybe three weeks down the road is something that you want to put some brain energy toward, but at least you're having something tangible that you're doing with these thoughts, that you're not just keeping them within.
Speaker 1:Listeners. We're at a disadvantage here. We're in a society that has 24-7 information. I love this old Switchfoot song. It's coming to mind Literally the lyric was if we're adding to the noise, turn off this song. Literally. There were a handful of times throughout my years of listening to them since I was really young actually where I would turn it off because I realized I needed some mental rest.
Speaker 1:And if you're a computer-based job person white-collar job person, you're at a special disadvantage here. You're not engaging your body as much, you're using your mind all the time. Some of our blue-collar friends who are doing more physical jobs. They have more of a choice, like do I put in the podcast or just focus on the task at hand, and that's actually a gift to them. Farmers have this as an opportunity.
Speaker 1:But if you're like Kyle and I and you're behind a computer all day, you undoubtedly need more mental rest than you're getting. And so one challenge could be don't listen to music in the car or in the shower, you know next time. Like Find little outlets. Maybe you can't do a 24-hour tech fast right now, maybe you need to work up to that, but find outlets 10 minutes here or there throughout your day so that you're not flooded. I've noticed this, kyle If I don't give my mind room to process throughout a given day and a given week, it's like they're still there just waiting to come up. These thoughts, for me at least, seem to need to be processed to some degree, or at least need to kind of run through my mind so they can come to a place of rest, and so that's a really important thing to consider.
Speaker 1:Many of us strugglers are also using pornography to squelch hard mental. You know hard thoughts that we're dealing with and aren't even aware of.
Speaker 2:And maybe there's a person that you could outwardly process with. You know, not everybody can process internally, so what might it be like to have a person that is available to help you mentally process if you need to talk it out loud, maybe you have a pet and you process with your pet. You know you could tell the dog sit, and dog will stay there and you could talk and you could process that way.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I would even offer that maybe there are some spiritual practices. One of the things that, especially in the evening, that helps me is like I've used the app Lectio 365. And they have a morning and an evening. It's a great way to calm the mind, to get your mind refocused. There's a scripture that I like to use sometime at night. This is from Psalm 8. Oh, I'm sorry, psalm 4, verse 8. It says In peace, I will both lie down and sleep for you alone, o Lord. Make me dwell in safety, me dwell in safety. So that's another way of helping to calm my mind, to bring my thoughts centered toward the Lord, to help take away all of that ruminating and racing thoughts and to really help me slow down and to have a place of focus that's good and healthy and holy and safe.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. Here's our third area of rest. This is the biggest one for me and probably many of you struggle with this. By the way, dr Dalton Smith has a little rest quiz again, not like hard science here, but a self-reflection quiz. It will be in the show notes for you to notice. Okay, which of these areas am I maybe lacking the most in? This was the one for me last time I took this.
Speaker 1:She defines emotional rest as not feeling the need to perform or meet external expectations, the cessation of emotional striving. Here's how you know you need it. You might need it after offering sympathy, consolation or encouragement. Kyle and I do a lot of that in our work here at Regen, so that might explain a little bit of it for me. But another area is after experiencing challenging emotions from within or from another Feeling really angry about something really sad, a lot of shame or fear you might need emotional rest. A third way or third area that might cause the need for emotional rest is after performing, after wearing a mask for others, hiding where we're really at. Man, that one definitely hits, probably for me and for a lot of people listening. That one definitely hits, probably for me and for a lot of people listening. So many of us are in that place of performance so often with people.
Speaker 1:So here are some of the ways she describes how to get emotional rest.
Speaker 1:One is vulnerability being vulnerable with God, with others, safe people you know those who are safe to be vulnerable with, people we don't feel like we need to hide, or at least don't need to hide certain parts that we might be hiding throughout the day. Another one I'll throw out there from Dr Dalton Smith is reflecting on what situations and people leave you emotionally drained and, by the way, this is not an invitation to just cut off people. You know, good vibes, only that kind of mindset that is not a Christian mindset. We're called to actually love those who are poor in spirit, including you know this emotional exhaustion, but we need to learn and see if there are ways God is calling us to engage or disengage, because just because someone is struggling doesn't mean we're always the one that is called to be there for them. It's actually really important that they have others, including God, and we're not the Savior in this story. That's interesting. There's some nuance in that, kyle. But thinking about what situations leave you emotionally drained.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think we don't always realize that we have come away from something emotionally drained. We might be able to identify some emotions that we're feeling. Right, we walk away from something oh, I'm angry, oh I'm sad, I'm upset but you don't realize how that thing has depleted you, how that situation has depleted you. You can name what you're feeling, but you don't understand what it's done to you in a way of depleting you. And so, again, we talked about earlier about body scan. That's helpful too, because people can say there's a tight in my chest or there's a knot in my stomach or butterflies, or I realize I have rapid breathing after I've engaged around this particular topic. Like I said, maybe you've heard some really hard information that the person has, you know, had something tragic and hard happen, and you walk away and you realize, oh my gosh, like I've got butterflies in my stomach. That's an emotional response to what you've heard.
Speaker 2:And so, thinking about ways to release that, you know what are the ways that you can get that out of your body?
Speaker 2:If it means some movement, to be able to move, to get safe people who are the safe people that you can process with, and to be able to process with in a way that doesn't ramp you up more, with in a way that doesn't ramp you up more, because if you have, maybe there's a contentious situation and you're just feeling just like a ball of knots after it. Afterward it's easy then to go and process with somebody and go daggone, la, la, la, la la, and you ramp yourself up really high, even higher, and so what might it even mean in the moment that you do afterwards? Do you need to even just do some breathing afterwards? Is there something that you can do to help yourself refocus? Is there a scripture that you can recite that will help kind of refocus you and recenter you so that when you process, you can process in a healthy way, and that's. I'm not trying to squash anybody's emotions, because for some things, you know, anger is valid, and so the question becomes are you expressing the anger in a way that's healthy?
Speaker 1:Instead of taking our anger to pornography which is actually a huge motivation to pornography instead of taking our shame to sexual sin, instead of taking our sadness to acting out with another person Like these are things that actually we often do, and how much more than is there an invitation to take it to God, to take these things to Jesus, to others, like you were saying, kyle, and to even perhaps validate this is such a helpful term when it comes to emotions. Validation does not mean you agree with where someone's going, like I'm angry. Therefore, x, y and Z should happen to so-and-so. You don't, you're not validating like the desired actions, but you can validate emotions Like it makes sense that you're angry, you felt an injustice happen. Validating, you can actually validate yourself Like it makes sense that I'm angry, it makes sense that I'm sad, and this is a sign of maturity, friends. This is a sign of maturity when we can learn to more and more validate our own emotions, receive the validation of the Lord and do that for other people as well.
Speaker 1:One other area that can help us with emotional rest is noticing where you're comparing yourself to others.
Speaker 1:Dr Dalton Smith says it this way what are you trying to compensate for If there's something that you're noticing, okay, again, this is another very subtle thing that can drive us toward our unwanted sexual behaviors. We're actually wanting something in another person that we feel lacking in ourself, very confident and gregarious, and I'm feeling very, you know, small that day, or whatever. It makes sense that that's creating emotional pain and discomfort, right Like I feel lacking in this area and again, that's something that we can often try to take to sexual sin. But, actually reflecting with the Lord, like Lord, I'm honestly envious of that person's personality right now. I'm envious of that person's personality right now. I'm envious of their good looks. I confess that to you because you know envy is sin and he wants to give us his grace in that place. Help me, lord. Help me to receive your love, even in my weakness, even in the places that I'm not as strong as I'd like to be, not as strong as I'd like to be.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and one of the ways that I try to walk with clients in that is you know, you can go on the internet and you can look for who I am in Christ and you can find a ton of lists out there that will affirm who you are. And you know the Lord didn't create us to be, you know, clones of one another. We are all fearfully and wonderfully made. We were designed very uniquely. Each person was designed uniquely with their own gifts and talents and wants and likes and dislikes. And we live in a world that says you have to have it all and you need to be this person who can do it all. That's not what the body of Christ is.
Speaker 2:I mean, now we think about what Paul says right in Romans when he talks about hey, the eye can't be this other part and the hand can't say I want to be this. We are all uniquely designed to fit into the kingdom, to do our specific thing.
Speaker 1:That's a big theme for you, kyle, like that self-acceptance which, again, this might be worth reiterating, we've probably said it before Acceptance does not mean approving of everything about yourself Like you're not approving of you know the places you're still struggling with sin, but you can accept yourself or others without approving Like. This is something we often forget. We can accept ourselves where we're at, and there's some you know exploration, god, who have you made me to be? I heard that when I interviewed you, kyle, a few months ago with our SSA series.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you know, the enemy certainly wants you to think that you're not good enough or there's something about you that needs to change. And if you change this thing, you'll be a better Christian, you'll be a better person. And the truth is that there is a person that God has called you to be and he has equipped you to do that to be that. And when you start to feel like you're not, you're going to turn to something that makes you feel like you are. You can turn to pornography, because pornography is not going to turn you down.
Speaker 2:Pornography is not going to tell you you're not good enough, you're not pretty enough, you're not handsome enough. You're not pretty enough, you're not handsome enough, you're not fit enough like those things. Or you may turn to another individual who is always willing and available to engage in sexual activity with you and you can say okay, this makes me feel accepted. And you go there because you want to fill that void of feeling like you're less than or not good enough. And so you go to a place where you get that false sense of feeling like I am enough because this person accepts me or the screen doesn't talk back to me. I can go to the screen and I'm going to feel all the things that I need to feel. My heart will feel full and I'll feel good about myself.
Speaker 1:A lot of this conversation around emotional rest. Kyle is bringing me back to one of my most fundamental books for emotional growth and healing, called Boundaries, by Cloud and Townsend Fantastic book. It's reminding me too earlier when we were talking about what is my like God, what are you calling me to when it comes to emotionally or, yeah, emotionally draining people or situations? One of the illustrations they give in the book is so often we think, especially if we've grown up with some codependency, some enmeshment triangulation is another word for this we often think we need to come in and lift everyone's backpack. Lift their daily kind of backpack that they're actually called to carry backpack. Lift their daily kind of backpack that they're actually called to carry, when, in reality, if we do that for them all the time, we're actually not doing good for them or ourselves. Now there's a different type of stones. So imagine that backpack has some stones in it. Right, and it's heavy, but it's not unbearable. It's actually meant to be born by that person, obviously supported by Jesus. But there are big boulders in our lives which are different, where we literally cannot push these boulders ourselves. We need someone to come next to us and that's such an invitation to. We need the support of loving others. We need sometimes we need a spiritual coach or a counselor therapist. We almost always need, especially in recovery in our earlier years. We need a group of people to come alongside us and help us work out our emotions and be vulnerable with and share our honest envy and comparison struggles and so on and so forth. So we want you to consider we'll throw a link to boundaries in the show notes but consider those areas where God actually has made you to have healthy emotional boundaries so that you can thrive as he's called you to thrive, not as you feel like you should act.
Speaker 1:We're really excited for our upcoming Awaken Retreat October 3rd, our Sacred by Design Retreat, which is for women, october 7th and 8th. These are going to be places of rest to some degree. Now the Awaken retreat, probably for men, leans a little more toward really getting after the. You know the roots of a lot of stuff, so it's going to be probably tiring in that regard, but it's going to be so restful in other ways. We're going to get into creative rest, which has a lot to do with beauty next week. We're going to get into social rest, which has to do with life-giving relationships, spiritual rest. All of those forms of rest are going to be experienced on these retreats, and especially for the ladies at the Sacred by Design retreat.
Speaker 1:From what I heard from last year, kyle, you guys made it an incredibly restful place physically, emotionally, mentally. I mean. You guys I don't even think really did much in terms of teachings because you wanted it to be experiential. In that way, you felt like the women we're walking with need that place to just be. So a little bit of a different kind of angle for each of these retreats, but they are going to be places that ultimately, are restorative to your soul. So space is limited. Please consider checking these out, especially if you've been coming to our groups online or coaching online. This is an awesome opportunity. Both of these are awesome opportunities to meet in person and have the joy of being together.
Speaker 2:And, by the way, the women's retreat will be November 7th and 8th.
Speaker 1:My bad. Thanks for correcting that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, info on that in the show notes as well. But, kyle, yeah, I'm going to give you the last word for this week and ask you to pray for us as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what I hope is that there is at least one takeaway for whomever is listening, something, something that you can be intentional about. Pick one and be intentional about going after that one, and hopefully that will start you to go in the areas of the others. And so let's take a moment and pray. Lord, we are physical beings, we are emotional beings, we are emotional beings, we are mental beings, god, and you have created us in that way, and so, because we are whole human beings, lord, you want us to attend to our whole selves, and so, lord, I pray that those who are listening will really take a moment and step back and go.
Speaker 2:Okay, of these three, where's the one that I need to focus on? Do I need to focus on some physical rest, mental rest, emotional rest? Lord, you guide them by your Holy Spirit, and I pray that they would really take the time to sit with you in that and to allow you to lead them, because that'll be the place that you want them to address. And so, lord, thank you so much for those who are listening, who want to continue to grow in their recovery journey. God and God, I pray even for those who may be the partner of someone who is walking through recovery. Lord, would you help them to be at a place where they can care for themselves in this as well, and so that they can look at these three areas also. And so, father, we just lift all that we have shared today to you and we ask this prayer in the name of your Son, jesus Christ, amen.
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