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Hi everyone, my name is Lori. I am doing an intro, my intro video and I'm doing it

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live which is really kind of uncomfortable for me if I'm being honest

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but I have been a part of the Rest Intensive for a couple weeks now and

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I've kind of put off the intro video because I kind of struggle a little bit

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with opening up and sharing I guess and so this is my daughter Felicity. She had

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a bump a little fall the other day and she bumped her head and anyway but I am

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a wife and I'm also a business owner. I have a photography business and I'm also

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a lemongrass spa consultant. I love both of those things so much and but I kind

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of struggled my entire life with you know operating my business out of a

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place of rest. I actually started my business when I was 14 and so I've had

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many highs and lows with my life and my business and I kind of have a lot of

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insecurities surrounding that because I kind of believe the lies that people

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told me about myself whether it's with my self-image or whether it was my looks

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or my business or my services. I feel like I really believed all of the lies

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that were told to me that were not true and so the last couple weeks I as I have

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been working through this series I have been realizing how unconditional God's

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love is for me and I just had a moment a couple weeks ago where I just saw Jesus

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standing there through all of my hurts and all of my pain and everything that

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I've ever gone through in my life that led up to this moment and I just saw this look of felicity.

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She started discovering that screaming is a very very fun so anyway so I've

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just felt like I just felt like I could just see see God through God's look of

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unchanging love through all of those hard things and and that was a huge

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moment for me and just being able to release all of my doubts and all of my

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fears to God and just surrender and kind of play we're in teething mode right now

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her first tooth came through anyways so she gets a little grumpy sometimes but

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anyway I feel like I've already been learning so much and I'm so happy to be

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a part of this group and I hope that I can learn to share a little bit more and

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open up up more that's something that I struggle with and because I'm kind of a

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kind of a lot of shame surrounded by just I don't know just the things I

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struggle with so I'm really thankful to Carrie Byler for sharing her journey

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with me and her followers because I feel like I just I just don't know where I

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would be today and I don't want to know where I would be today if she hadn't

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introduced me to the rest intensive and to Ashley and I feel like I've learned

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so much even in the short time that I have been here and I'm so grateful for

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that and I hope everyone has a happy Monday and I will catch up with you guys later