Okay, I'm going to give this one more try.
One more!
So, um, you've probably gotten too many notifications that Steph Dix is live in the group.
I'm sorry for that.
My connection today has been terrible, so one thing that has not changed from my original
Rest Intensive introduction from 2020 is that I'm still a hot mess of the group.
Apparently that's a badge of honor I can rock forever.
So I am Stephanie, and I was in the original group, which was life-changing.
Sorry, I've got messages coming in.
Um, life-changing.
And one of those Ashley talked about that was like, I don't get it, I don't get it,
I get it!
And just boom, like, snap, shifted over, and wow.
So, um, I dropped a lot of baggage.
I've had, we've all had things in the past that have not gone the way we would have chosen
for them to.
So, um, learning how to deal with those and release those and just rest.
I mean, whether it's business, parenting, you name it.
Um, I said in one of my video attempts, I'm taking a gamble being live right now.
I have four daughters, they have two dogs, my husband's at work, so I don't know what
you're going to hear in one of my video attempts.
My six-year-old let a giant burp, so, um, yeah, but just to be at rest, um, for me that's
also to have a level of peace, um, and then this past year has been a year of trials for
me health-wise, um, long story short, we had the illness that I really shouldn't name
on social media that was very contagious, started in 2020.
I had it twice.
The, uh, first time kind of messed with me as far as vertigo and anxiety and stuff, but
the second time sent me into an IBS flare that would not resolve, and I lost my hearing
completely.
I won't say completely, but it reset me to where I was 20 years ago when I had surgery
to correct my hearing loss, so that was a hard pill to swallow to go back to wearing
two hearing aids, but here I am, um, I've spent a lot of my year traveling back and
forth to Cleveland Clinic, and praise God, I'm the healthiest I've been in a year now.
There were some very hard, hard, I don't want to say days or seasons, but spells, let's
say it that way.
Um, I went from being very independent to being very dependent.
I couldn't leave the house, um, very weak, went through therapy for vertigo, um, there
were so many ways that the things that I took for granted or maybe depended on more than
maybe I should have were taken from me, and so, uh, every day was just a little bit of
mana each day to get through to the point that I'm at now, so the perspective I have
now versus the perspective I had in that introduction video versus the perspective I had even a
year ago before I got sick, so different, so different.
I would hate to think of what this last year would have been like had I not gone through
the first rest intensive, oh my, so I'm excited to go through it again with the perspective
that I now have from the first one and from my year of trials that I've been through.
Um, I don't tell you any of this to complain or to make any medical claims or anything
like that, um, it's been difficult.
Ashley and I have spoken a couple times through it, um, honestly I'm finally to the point
now that as hard as it was, I wouldn't go back and take it out of my story.
I can too plainly see, even at the time I could see that God was like, I gotcha, it's
okay, and I knew that he did, and I had a peace about it, as hard as it was, I didn't
understand it, and I didn't like it, but there's just that
steady constant peace that God's got this so I said I'm excited to go through
rest intensive round two and see what I missed the first time see what maybe
didn't apply to or maybe I thought didn't apply to me at the time I don't
know I know God can use the same even if the same videos from before stuff will
stand out the didn't before so I'm very optimistic and excited to go through it
again I hope you see some major shifts and changes and growth through this as
well I'm looking forward to taking a little bit of time hopefully this
evening and watching all of your intro videos getting to know you better I saw
some bigger faces from before and let's just let's just do this I hope maybe my
intro is a little bit of encouragement I don't know I don't have any like pearls
of wisdom to give you but just to show that hey I've been there I can't wait to
go back and go through this again like Carrie said though it's kind of like
you're like oh I know it's worth it but yeah you've got a you're gonna have to
open up a little bit but like I said I'm the resident hot mess of the group I'm
sure still