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Character Study Reference: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ_KgxPERw0/?igsh=MXhuYTk0dDdhcGJnaw==
Denea (00:00) Hello, it's Denea, your host of the Neurodivergent Bible Teaching Podcast. This podcast is dedicated to helping you understand how to study the Bible. I'm Denea, I'm Neurodivergent, I'm autistic, I have ADHD and OCD, and I know what it's like to struggle ⁓ to understand how to study the Bible, ⁓ let alone also ⁓ honoring my brain while doing it.
Denea (00:31) I've learned a few things through seminary, ⁓ through life, and I want to share those things with you. ⁓ And this podcast, you will hear all about ⁓ studying techniques, some Bible studies, so you can understand how to apply those techniques, some neurodivergent encouragement, and just some ways that I'm learning to honor the way that God has created my brain. I'm so ⁓ happy that you're here. Let's get started.
Denea (01:04) Hello, hello, it's Denea, ⁓ your host of the Neurodivergent Bible Teaching Podcast. I hope that you ⁓ are ⁓ um ⁓ honoring rhythms of rest wherever you are. ⁓ This week ⁓ for me was just it's been filled with a lot of tests. I think I've mentioned on the podcast before um ⁓ that I have ⁓ multiple chronic. ⁓
Denea (01:35) health conditions and just to to say this, ⁓ when I s when I mention or speak of chronic ⁓ illnesses or chronic health conditions, ⁓ I do not ⁓ I I don't include like being autistic and ADHD, ⁓ O C D ⁓ complex P T S D I don't I don't include I'd for me, I do not consider those to be chronic health conditions or chronic
Denea (02:04) ⁓ illnesses. So ⁓ what I mean by those, ⁓ just to clarify, and I think I've I've mentioned them on the podcast before, but ⁓ I have Ellers Danlow syndrome, Potts, Mast cell activation syndrome, ⁓ PMOS, endometriosis, scoliosis, ⁓ sleep apnea, and ⁓ suspected narcolepsy. ⁓ And this week was ⁓
Denea (02:34) just kind of filled with doing tests for those. I actually had my narcolepsy sleep study ⁓ this week and then I had another GI test that I had to do. ⁓ And I think ⁓ I don't I don't know why ⁓ I thought doing all of this in the same week was a good idea. ⁓ I think at the time ⁓ I was like, all right, let me let me just do them during the same week and just knock them out. You know, get get done. ⁓
Denea (03:04) ⁓ I I did kind of ⁓ schedule today to kind of be a what I c what I usually call like a a low battery day. So I did ⁓ kind of schedule that rhythm of rest, but I I I have no idea. Looking back, I shouldn't have had these tests in in the same week. So I hope that you are ⁓
Denea (03:31) Honoring a rhythm of rest this week, whatever that looks like for you. ⁓ maybe you have a doctor's appointment and instead ⁓ of ⁓ just, you know, powering through because doctor's appointments, whether it's a doctor you've seen before, w a new doctor, ⁓ whether it's testing, they're not easy. And our our brains deserve a break for processing. ⁓ so I hope that maybe after that appointment you're just gonna ⁓
Denea (04:01) Give you maybe it's five minutes of just doing nothing, or maybe it's five minutes of ⁓ engaging with your special interest or something that you're currently deep diving right now. ⁓ whatever a rhythm of rest looks like for you, ⁓ I hope that you're able to give yourself just a few minutes of that and just honor that this week. ⁓ today's podcast episode is going to be about doing character studies.
Denea (04:31) So ⁓ a couple weeks ago I did a a post. ⁓ Well, I guess it depends on when you're listening to this recording. It might be long ⁓ it might be longer than a couple of weeks ago. But ⁓ for context of where this is coming from, a couple weeks ago I ⁓ posted something on Instagram about doing a character study.
Denea (04:55) ⁓ And I got some questions and so I was like, well maybe I think maybe this would be a a great podcast episode to talk about doing character studies. So ⁓ one reason why I think doing a character study is really, really good, ⁓ especially for neuro
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