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Okay, I'm going to give this one more try.

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One more!

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So, um, you've probably gotten too many notifications that Steph Dix is live in the group.

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I'm sorry for that.

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My connection today has been terrible, so one thing that has not changed from my original

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Rest Intensive introduction from 2020 is that I'm still a hot mess of the group.

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Apparently that's a badge of honor I can rock forever.

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So I am Stephanie, and I was in the original group, which was life-changing.

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Sorry, I've got messages coming in.

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Um, life-changing.

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And one of those Ashley talked about that was like, I don't get it, I don't get it,

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I get it!

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And just boom, like, snap, shifted over, and wow.

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So, um, I dropped a lot of baggage.

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I've had, we've all had things in the past that have not gone the way we would have chosen

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for them to.

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So, um, learning how to deal with those and release those and just rest.

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I mean, whether it's business, parenting, you name it.

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Um, I said in one of my video attempts, I'm taking a gamble being live right now.

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I have four daughters, they have two dogs, my husband's at work, so I don't know what

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you're going to hear in one of my video attempts.

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My six-year-old let a giant burp, so, um, yeah, but just to be at rest, um, for me that's

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also to have a level of peace, um, and then this past year has been a year of trials for

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me health-wise, um, long story short, we had the illness that I really shouldn't name

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on social media that was very contagious, started in 2020.

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I had it twice.

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The, uh, first time kind of messed with me as far as vertigo and anxiety and stuff, but

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the second time sent me into an IBS flare that would not resolve, and I lost my hearing

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completely.

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I won't say completely, but it reset me to where I was 20 years ago when I had surgery

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to correct my hearing loss, so that was a hard pill to swallow to go back to wearing

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two hearing aids, but here I am, um, I've spent a lot of my year traveling back and

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forth to Cleveland Clinic, and praise God, I'm the healthiest I've been in a year now.

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There were some very hard, hard, I don't want to say days or seasons, but spells, let's

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say it that way.

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Um, I went from being very independent to being very dependent.

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I couldn't leave the house, um, very weak, went through therapy for vertigo, um, there

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were so many ways that the things that I took for granted or maybe depended on more than

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maybe I should have were taken from me, and so, uh, every day was just a little bit of

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mana each day to get through to the point that I'm at now, so the perspective I have

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now versus the perspective I had in that introduction video versus the perspective I had even a

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year ago before I got sick, so different, so different.

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I would hate to think of what this last year would have been like had I not gone through

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the first rest intensive, oh my, so I'm excited to go through it again with the perspective

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that I now have from the first one and from my year of trials that I've been through.

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Um, I don't tell you any of this to complain or to make any medical claims or anything

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like that, um, it's been difficult.

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Ashley and I have spoken a couple times through it, um, honestly I'm finally to the point

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now that as hard as it was, I wouldn't go back and take it out of my story.

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I can too plainly see, even at the time I could see that God was like, I gotcha, it's

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okay, and I knew that he did, and I had a peace about it, as hard as it was, I didn't

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understand it, and I didn't like it, but there's just that

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steady constant peace that God's got this so I said I'm excited to go through

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rest intensive round two and see what I missed the first time see what maybe

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didn't apply to or maybe I thought didn't apply to me at the time I don't

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know I know God can use the same even if the same videos from before stuff will

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stand out the didn't before so I'm very optimistic and excited to go through it

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again I hope you see some major shifts and changes and growth through this as

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well I'm looking forward to taking a little bit of time hopefully this

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evening and watching all of your intro videos getting to know you better I saw

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some bigger faces from before and let's just let's just do this I hope maybe my

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intro is a little bit of encouragement I don't know I don't have any like pearls

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of wisdom to give you but just to show that hey I've been there I can't wait to

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go back and go through this again like Carrie said though it's kind of like

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you're like oh I know it's worth it but yeah you've got a you're gonna have to

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open up a little bit but like I said I'm the resident hot mess of the group I'm

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sure still