Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 230 ｜ Light at the End of the Quarantine

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Friday. It is Friday. I know it feels like you're floating

00:00:05.200 in time and space and you have no idea what day it is, what year it is, what month it is. Well,

00:00:10.480 it is March 27th, Friday, the year of our Lord 2020. We are all here together figuring this

00:00:17.080 thing out and I do have some good news for you today. So we are, I know we're still stuck on

00:00:22.500 this. We're still stuck on the subject that we've been talking about for two weeks, but that's

00:00:26.820 because it's affecting all of our lives. Like this is a major historic event and this would be

00:00:32.820 like us not talking about 9-11. Obviously it's not the same thing as 9-11, but it has major

00:00:39.480 implications and is going to have implications for years to come. Not just physical implications of

00:00:45.180 people getting sick and dying, but the economic implications of not just people dying, but the

00:00:50.720 shutdown that is going in place. Now I have some good news and I'm going to also answer some of the

00:00:56.740 questions that you guys sent me on Instagram. And I want to first address that if you are freaking

00:01:03.380 out about this, because there seems to be three different places. I originally on Twitter, I said

00:01:09.460 that there were two different places that people are in. There are really three different major groups

00:01:14.260 that people are in. Some people might fall through the cracks on this, on these categories, but

00:01:18.540 so there's the group that is absolutely freaking out thinking that this virus is going to kill

00:01:24.540 millions of people. And that if we go outside at all, we are going to catch it and we're probably

00:01:29.060 going to die. And that it's far worse than we could have ever imagined. And that we do need to

00:01:33.580 absolutely shut everything down and we'll worry about the economy later. Let the government take 0.99

00:01:38.720 care of people. We don't need to worry about people getting back to work or losing their jobs because

00:01:43.940 look, people are going to die and we just got to save, we got to save people's lives. So that's one

00:01:49.280 side. Those people tend to think that Trump isn't doing a good job, that we don't have enough ICU beds

00:01:54.940 or that we don't have enough equipment. And I'm not saying that that's just an opinion that we don't

00:02:00.420 have enough equipment, but that tends to be what these people are focusing on and thinking about

00:02:05.880 and very concerned about. And then there's a group on the other side that says, you know what,

00:02:11.440 this is not a big deal. People just need to go back to work. And this kills fewer people so far

00:02:17.540 than the flu. And we just need to, um, we just need to realize that this is not that big of a

00:02:23.660 deal. There are some people in that camp who think this is all a hoax that think this is all a ploy

00:02:27.940 to hurt Donald Trump and to hurt the United States and to hurt capitalism. And then you've got some

00:02:32.840 people in the middle who I would say that I'm in this camp who think that this is a serious virus

00:02:38.700 that came from, um, that the reason why it's spread and why it's as serious as it is, is because

00:02:45.680 the communist government in China failed to contain it. They failed to enact any kind of policies to

00:02:52.180 contain it and to mitigate it at least quickly enough. And they failed to let world health

00:02:57.060 officials in to, to Wuhan and into China to help them for a long period of time. They said in the

00:03:03.920 beginning, even though they knew that it was very contagious, they told the WHO that, Hey, this is,

00:03:10.460 there's no human to human transmission. The WHO then parroted those prop that propaganda. And so

00:03:16.620 it is the communist party of China's, uh, fault that all of this is happening right now. We don't

00:03:22.060 need to forget that. And I think both ends of the spectrum, remember that, but that's one of the

00:03:26.520 biggest concerns of people, uh, like me. And we also were worried about people dying. We're worried

00:03:33.260 about the elderly. We're worried about the immunocompromised. We are worried about people dying. We think

00:03:39.860 this is serious. We look at New York and we see that they're overwhelmed, Washington, Washington state,

00:03:44.840 LA, and we see the need for some kind of relief, but we also know that there are going to be serious

00:03:51.380 economic implications to this that really ruin people's lives. And that we have to have some

00:03:56.260 kind of plan of recovery. We have to see some kind of light at the end of the tunnel. Uh, we have to

00:04:02.020 be talking about how Americans are going to go back to work when they're going to go back to work and

00:04:06.480 what it's going to look like when we reintroduce people into the public. And when we open up the

00:04:11.680 economy and that are also concerned, there are people like me who are also concerned that we

00:04:16.400 are suspending so many of our constitutional rights in a time of crisis. And that's making us

00:04:21.940 wonder, well, what are the, what's the point of constitutional rights? If they're suspended in

00:04:26.840 times of crisis, aren't they four times like this when the government is eager to take over? Uh,

00:04:32.380 aren't we supposed to still be protected by the constitution in times like this? But we also see

00:04:37.600 that this is an unprecedented moment and that the government does have a role in all of this.

00:04:43.940 So there are some people with some nuance in the middle, with some mixed thoughts and mixed feelings

00:04:48.820 in the middle. And I would count myself among those. I see the seriousness of the economic implications

00:04:54.100 and of the, uh, physical and medical implications of a pandemic as well. So this episode though,

00:05:02.320 is for all of you, because whether you're freaking out about the virus, you're freaking out about the

00:05:07.120 economy, you're freaking out about both, or you're just totally chill and you know that it's all going

00:05:11.200 to be fine. This is still going to contain good news for you because there is good news that we should

00:05:18.000 recognize. And if you are stuck in this cycle of freaking out and thinking this is getting worse and

00:05:22.240 worse, then hopefully you'll feel some kind of relief and some kind of, I don't know, uh, some kind of

00:05:32.380 hope knowing that maybe, maybe things aren't quite as bleak as we originally thought they were. So

00:05:39.220 on Wednesday, I shared with you a finding that was cited by the New York times by a British

00:05:44.000 epidemiologist named Neil Ferguson. Neil Ferguson, he does have ties with the world health organization.

00:05:50.420 We've got some trust issues with the world health organization. They're not really run at least at

00:05:55.720 the very top by people of integrity. And like I said, they're in bed with China and they parrot their 1.00

00:06:00.960 propaganda often. And so they are to blame in large part for how all of this was handled. So

00:06:06.120 it doesn't really necessarily lend Neil Ferguson or anyone connected to the WHO credibility,

00:06:11.960 but he has a lot of influence in the UK and the group that he's a part of creates these models for

00:06:18.580 epidemics that have a lot of credibility over there. So the model that his group came up with,

00:06:25.840 it was described by the New York times as a sophisticated model said worst case scenario for

00:06:31.060 the United States, 2.2 million people die from this best case scenario, 1.1 million people die from this.

00:06:37.540 So this was Ferguson's projection. He said in the UK, it'll probably be 500,000 people.

00:06:42.780 Well, we based our decisions, a lot of our policy decisions on that. The UK has done the same.

00:06:50.480 Now Neil Ferguson is coming out and saying, well, it's probably going to be a lot less than that.

00:06:55.880 There's probably going to be a lot fewer people who die, particularly in the UK. He is saying it's

00:07:01.140 not going to be 500,000. It's not going to be 200,000 or even 100,000 or even 50,000. He's saying

00:07:07.360 it's probably going to be fewer than 20,000 people that die in the UK. And oh, nevermind. The NHS is

00:07:13.580 not going to be overwhelmed. We'll have the proper number of hospital beds, ICU beds to take care of

00:07:19.420 these people. Now he is crediting the new strategy that the UK has implemented of total lockdown

00:07:26.060 to the lower projection of deaths that he thinks are going to occur. But the lockdown has only happened

00:07:34.320 for two to three days. So there's a debate that is going on right now. Have we made these very

00:07:40.660 serious and unprecedented policy economic decisions based on faulty data? Are some of these projections

00:07:48.840 saying that millions of people are going to die, is it based on faulty data? And there is a possibility

00:07:55.020 that that's true because a lot of people you will see are talking about how many cases are in the

00:08:01.800 United States by using the number of confirmed cases. So people who have actually tested positive

00:08:08.260 and then they are looking at the people that have died among the people that have tested positive and

00:08:14.260 they're using that to calculate the death rate. But that's not an, that's not actually an accurate

00:08:20.320 calculation because there are a lot of people as people like Ferguson and other scientists, other

00:08:26.000 epidemiologists are realizing this, this disease, this virus is much more transmissible than they

00:08:32.600 originally thought. So it's much more contagious, which means that probably a lot more people have

00:08:39.120 it and probably have had it over the past couple of months, maybe the past few months than we

00:08:44.520 originally thought, which means if we have a lot more people, tens of thousands, maybe more people

00:08:51.240 who have had this. And the death rate really is as low as we think it is, which is about a thousand.

00:08:56.560 Now it could be more than that because maybe other people died of it before we actually knew what

00:09:01.260 coronavirus was or before we were talking about it. But the death rate is probably a lot lower because

00:09:07.500 there are a lot more people who actually have the coronavirus than have actually tested positive or

00:09:13.920 who have gotten tested at all. And so now that scientists are looking at that data and saying, okay,

00:09:19.360 this is a lot more contagious than we thought. There's probably a lot more people who have had

00:09:23.340 it over the past few months who have survived it. And there are right now, at least among the

00:09:28.740 confirmed cases, a thousand people who have died from it. That means that the death rate is probably

00:09:33.340 a lot lower than we thought. So that means that maybe 2.2 million people aren't going to die or even

00:09:37.620 1.1 million. It might be a lot lower than that in the UK. Like I said, he is saying that it's probably

00:09:43.840 going to be around 20,000 and we're still not even sure if that's true. And so when we look at

00:09:49.260 that and when we hear that, when we hear, okay, we might have made a lot of knee jerk reaction

00:09:54.700 decisions based on exaggerated hyperbolic or just accidentally untrue, accidentally exaggerated

00:10:04.520 data, then you wonder, okay, well, was this the proper calculation? Was this worth it? Of course,

00:10:12.600 we want to save as many lives as possible, but to absolutely shut everything down and to tell people

00:10:17.620 you basically can't leave your homes except to exercise. And if you're not six feet away from

00:10:21.620 people, you're going to get in trouble. That's what some people are saying in certain areas.

00:10:26.160 You wonder, was it worth suspending almost all of our constitutional rights

00:10:31.420 for based on data that just wasn't true or wasn't accurate. And so that's good news. I think that

00:10:40.120 probably the death rate is a lot lower than we originally thought it was. Does that mean that we

00:10:45.140 shouldn't take it seriously? Of course not. I mean, in New York city, they are apparently the

00:10:49.860 hospitals there are completely overwhelmed. They need more ventilators. They need more medical

00:10:55.280 equipment. I mean, you do have doctors and nurses wearing protective gear that is basically makeshift

00:11:01.160 like trash bags and things like that. And so yes, doctors and nurses, especially in the ER are

00:11:07.580 completely overwhelmed right now, which tells us that there is a surge of these cases happening,

00:11:12.260 which means of course we know it's very contagious. We know it can be dangerous for any age group. We

00:11:17.460 know it can be deadly for any age group. And so we should continue to take it seriously. We should

00:11:22.260 continue to try to mitigate as much risk as possible, save as many lives as possible, do as much as we

00:11:27.700 can for those in the healthcare industry, for people who are essential workers deemed by the government

00:11:33.200 who are still out there working and serving us, risking their health to do so. We of course should be

00:11:37.940 very careful, have good hygiene, still socially distance and all of those things, but it's okay

00:11:42.900 for us to ask, were these the appropriate decisions to make looking at the new data that we have now,

00:11:49.520 knowing that the death rate might be a lot lower than we originally thought. Shouldn't we be a little

00:11:54.540 bit more careful? And it's funny because you get people who absolutely lose their ever loving minds.

00:12:00.200 If you even bring up the economic effects of this, as if people losing their jobs, isn't that big of a

00:12:05.880 deal? It is a big deal that ruins people's lives. And quite frankly, can, um, very often precipitate

00:12:12.520 things like depression and suicide. And so it's things we should take seriously, but there are

00:12:16.440 people, especially on the left side of the aisle, it seems that freak out. If you say anything about

00:12:21.800 the economy and just two weeks ago, you had people like AOC saying, go out to Chinatown, go out to your

00:12:28.880 Chinese restaurants and make sure that you, she said you need to be patroning them. Of course,

00:12:34.440 it's patronizing, but you need to be, uh, you need to be going out there and buying things and going

00:12:40.020 to restaurants and things like that. Now, if you talk about supporting local businesses,

00:12:44.040 you're talking about local businesses, losing everything they have it. Well, so you just want

00:12:49.100 people to die. So you just want elderly people to die. You just want immunocompromised people to die. 1.00

00:12:54.160 So you're just for eugenics. Of course not. Of course not. They were just saying two weeks ago that we

00:13:01.020 need to be supporting our local businesses so they don't lose everything. But that was just all virtue

00:13:05.820 signaling. And I think that's a lot of what we're seeing that virtue signaling is literally going to

00:13:10.780 have a deleterious effects on society because people have said, we absolutely have to stop

00:13:17.100 everything in order to save even one life. And it just, it doesn't, it doesn't make long-term sense.

00:13:24.100 And so I'm glad that we are having conversations about this, weighing the risks and rewards and

00:13:30.700 saying, yes, we care about life. We care about all life. Let's save as many lives as possible,

00:13:35.100 but we can't forget about livelihoods. And we have to have an actual plan to come out on the other side

00:13:40.040 of this. President Trump has said as much this week, and he is talking about trying to open up the

00:13:46.400 economy by Easter, which would be awesome. Like that would be wonderful. I've been really sad

00:13:51.840 thinking about not being able to go to Easter services or not being able to have the gatherings

00:13:56.400 that we are used to having on Easter. I mean, it is very sad. Do I want things to open up

00:14:01.380 prematurely? Of course not. Of course I don't. Like, I don't want to put people at unnecessary risk.

00:14:06.500 I don't want to put people in unnecessary danger. I don't want to be insensitive and say, well,

00:14:11.200 this is the tradition that I have, and I'm going to have a normal Easter because that's what I want.

00:14:15.760 That's not my attitude at all. Would it be wonderful if we could figure out a plan to

00:14:21.020 make sure that a lot of people are back to work and that we are giving things into gear by Easter?

00:14:27.180 I think that that would be awesome. But the problem is going to be that President Trump is,

00:14:33.680 no matter when he decides, okay, we're going to start opening up the economy,

00:14:38.740 whether it's in two weeks or two months, you're going to have the left-wing media who already 0.95

00:14:44.020 thinks that he's terrible and a narcissist and is a eugenicist and wants people to die. Yes, 0.96

00:14:49.220 the same people who advocate for assisted suicide and abortion. They are going to be emphasizing

00:14:56.380 every single case of coronavirus that crops up. They are going to be exaggerating the damaging

00:15:04.860 effects of it. They are going to be fear-mongering. They are going to be instilling panic. They are

00:15:09.540 going to say that Trump is liable for every single death that occurs if he says, hey, we want to open up

00:15:15.060 the economy. And so it's just, it's going to be, it's going to be difficult for President Trump.

00:15:20.480 But here's another piece of awesome news is that President Trump's approval ratings are,

00:15:26.740 they've reached an all-time high according to, I think it's Gallup. Let me make sure I have that

00:15:31.820 right. Which is amazing because the media has been trying. So Trump job approval rating matches all-time

00:15:41.140 high according to Gallup, which is really amazing because the media has been working over time right

00:15:49.020 now, over time to make sure that President Trump looks like a murder that looks like a guy who 0.98

00:15:57.180 doesn't care about anyone who is not taking this seriously, who is an absolute clown that doesn't 0.99

00:16:04.360 know what he's doing and doesn't know anything that's going on and isn't able to string two sentences 0.99

00:16:09.560 together. They've been trying so hard to make him look responsible for all of this. When the fact

00:16:14.920 of the matter is, is that a lot of people are very satisfied with his leadership. And we hear CNN

00:16:21.320 and NBC saying that they're no longer going to show his, um, his press briefings, which he's been

00:16:28.060 doing pretty much on a daily basis for the past week or so. They're saying, we're not going to show

00:16:32.840 these anymore. Yeah. Because it's proving that these press briefings are very popular among the

00:16:38.060 American people that he has done a pretty good job of assuring people that things are under control

00:16:43.340 and that they're doing the best that they can to make sure that people are taken care of, that

00:16:48.800 hospitals are taken care of. I think Dr. Birx is also helping with that. I think Dr. Fauci is also

00:16:54.740 helping with that, but he has constructed the team that is around him. And I think a lot of people are

00:17:00.440 very satisfied by that. And you have leftists in the media who have been trying for the past three

00:17:07.720 years to take him down. Uh, they are now using this crisis and using this epidemic to attempts to,

00:17:16.060 uh, take him down even further. They think this is going to be the nail in the coffin. Well,

00:17:20.340 they've said that everything was going to be the nail in the coffin for president Trump. Everything was

00:17:24.720 going to be the beginning of the end, the end of his presidency from not legitimately being the

00:17:30.480 president. That was the case they were making in the beginning to Russian collusion to all of the

00:17:36.280 supposed crimes that he's committed. And now they're saying that of course he is somehow responsible for

00:17:42.520 the deaths and the sickness here in the United States, not the communist party of China, but, uh,

00:17:48.260 Donald Trump. And I just, it doesn't seem to be having the desired effect. It doesn't seem to be

00:17:55.180 hurting him that badly considering his job approval rating is so good right now. Another piece of good

00:18:00.300 news is that Texas has enacted a policy. I mean, thank God for governor Greg Abbott as enacted a policy

00:18:07.260 that shuts down the state's, uh, the state's abortion clinics. They are stopping. So Texas is stopping

00:18:13.900 all non-essential, uh, surgeries right now. So all non-essential operations have been put to a halt,

00:18:22.240 at least for the time being over the next couple of months. So we can make sure that the hospitals

00:18:26.700 have the capacity that they need in order to care for people with Corona virus, which is obviously a

00:18:33.200 very good decision. And they have deemed that abortion is a non-essential procedure, which we

00:18:39.360 absolutely know to be true. It's not only non-essential, it's evil, but they aren't saying

00:18:43.720 that right now. Uh, and Planned Parenthood is losing their minds. They are trying to

00:18:49.080 sue the state of Texas saying that this is unconstitutional, that they're blaming Republicans

00:18:54.620 and governor Greg Abbott for exploiting a crisis in order to push their own political agenda. But

00:19:00.620 the funny thing is that's actually exactly what Planned Parenthood is. They exploit crises all of the

00:19:06.580 time, whether they're large scale crises like a pandemic or personal crises, uh, in a woman's life

00:19:12.240 in order to push abortion because it makes them money. And so of course they're going to be using

00:19:16.700 this pandemic to say, look, you're not going to be able to raise your child. These are really scary

00:19:23.460 times. We don't know what the economy is going to do. We don't know what this pandemic is going to

00:19:27.800 look like. You don't really want to have a baby during a time like this. You just want to have an

00:19:31.860 abortion. Just go ahead and get rid of it. I totally understand that you feel like you don't, you know, 0.74

00:19:36.620 that you don't know what you're doing right now. You just lost your job. You should definitely

00:19:40.100 have an abortion. This is such a ripe opportunity for Planned Parenthoods, uh, to emotionally coerce 0.99

00:19:46.380 women into aborting their children. And I'm so thankful that governor Abbott, that the government 0.93

00:19:52.200 of Texas stood up and said, you know what, these are non-essential operations and you're not going

00:19:57.660 to be able to provide abortions during this time. I'm just very thankful for that. And so that's 0.97

00:20:02.080 another piece of great news. So guys, I do think that there is light at the end of the tunnel right

00:20:09.720 now. There are things that we can be thankful for. And of course we know that God is doing

00:20:16.400 something. We might not always know and be able to see what exactly that is, but he is bringing glory

00:20:22.080 to himself. And in that we can rejoice. Remember the joy of the Lord is our strength, not worry,

00:20:29.500 not fear, not anxiety. Go back and listen to Monday's episode where we talk about the importance

00:20:34.700 of fearing God and not fearing trouble. That doesn't mean that we don't take things seriously,

00:20:38.880 but it does mean that as children of God, we don't have anything to fret over. So go back and

00:20:45.020 listen to Monday's episode. It's a comforting one, not because of anything I say, but because

00:20:50.100 God's word brings peace and clarity in a world of confusion. Um, okay. I'm going to answer some

00:20:55.440 of the questions that you guys sent me on Instagram. Okay. One question. How do you get over the fear of

00:21:01.880 conflict? If you want to confront someone, but you don't know what to say because you are scared that

00:21:06.580 they're not going to like you or they're going to be mad at you. So this is really difficult. And I

00:21:10.580 certainly have not, have not mastered this. Believe it or not. I don't like conflict. I don't like

00:21:16.940 people to be mad at me. I don't like to have tension with people. I really don't. I don't like

00:21:22.200 people to have a bad opinion of me. And I know that I should get over that of course. But I just

00:21:28.400 because I talk about controversial things with confidence and it is, it's not feigned confidence.

00:21:33.980 It's real confidence. I doesn't mean that I am not fearful of conflict and fearful of

00:21:41.420 negative opinions because I am, but it's just a decision to care more about the truth than

00:21:49.280 you do about people's opinions and realizing that love often looks like telling the truth

00:21:55.200 rather than either obfuscating the truth, avoiding the truth or lying. Um, so I think it's just a

00:22:02.600 decision to have an allegiance. If you're a Christian to God, which means an allegiance to 0.67

00:22:08.680 the truth and realizing that that allegiance is higher than your allegiance to people's opinion,

00:22:13.660 or even their good feelings about you. That doesn't mean that you have to be rude about it. That

00:22:19.200 doesn't mean that you have to be mean or bombastic or anything like that, but it's from a place of

00:22:23.640 love. It's from a place of mercy that you want to tell someone the truth. And you can always start

00:22:29.100 just in a practical way, asking people questions. That's typically what I do when I'm trying to

00:22:33.260 start a conversation about a disagreement in politics is ask people why they believe what

00:22:38.180 they believe, like how they got to a certain conclusion, where they read that particular

00:22:42.500 data point that they are listing or like why, for example, they believe abortion is okay. Like

00:22:48.760 how'd you come to that conclusion? How does that fit into your moral framework? And it usually

00:22:53.100 makes them think because a lot of people on the left, quite frankly, haven't thought about their

00:22:57.520 positions or how it fits into their greater worldview or why they believe what they believe.

00:23:02.060 And so just pushing them a little bit to get to think about that. Uh, typically it typically can

00:23:09.120 start some kind of conversation or at least just makes them a little bit more critical of their own

00:23:15.640 biases. So just something to think about. Someone asked me, is my husband into politics? Like I am,

00:23:21.760 he keeps up with it a lot. There are a lot of stories actually that I get from him that he sends me.

00:23:26.900 He he's on Twitter. He doesn't tweet or anything, but he follows people on Twitter. And so he'll send

00:23:31.580 me stuff and he knows what's going on just as much sometimes, if not more than I do now. He is not,

00:23:37.840 he doesn't share opinions and things like that, but we do talk about it a lot. And we keep up with a lot

00:23:44.980 of the same things and listen to a lot of the same people and follow a lot of the same people. So

00:23:49.280 if I could meet one person from the Bible besides Jesus, who would it be?

00:23:55.160 It would probably be Esther. I would just want to know. Oh, that's really hard. I think it would

00:24:03.500 be a woman from the Bible. Oh, really difficult. There's so many questions. Like I would want to

00:24:08.760 talk to Eve and be like, girl, girl, like we got a lot to discuss. Why you did that? Why girl? 0.99

00:24:15.880 Why'd you do that? There's so many other things that you could have done besides that. And look

00:24:22.560 at all of this. We got coronavirus. Thanks a lot, Eve. So it'd be interesting to talk to her.

00:24:28.700 Interesting to talk to Esther, how she handled all of the responsibility that she was given and how she

00:24:35.440 took the opportunity that most people would have squandered and used it to glorify God and to do

00:24:43.420 God's will. I think that's awesome. It'd be cool to talk to Mary. So like, what was it like being

00:24:48.640 pregnant and never having had sex before? Um, is that inappropriate? Kind of, but like, I don't know 0.87

00:24:56.340 that. I think that would be interesting to ask her, uh, what it was like to carry the God of the

00:25:03.940 universe in her womb. Um, okay. Who else? No, I think that's it. I think those are all the people

00:25:10.760 I would like to meet. Uh, pizza gate Q, a non deep state stuff. Uh, so someone asked me what I think

00:25:19.540 about all of this. I've seen it because I know there are some people who follow me on Instagram

00:25:25.260 who follow this stuff. And I am a very just skeptical person in general. I'm just skeptical

00:25:30.660 person. And I am very slow to believe in conspiracy theories and very slow to buy into things like

00:25:40.360 that. And I, I haven't looked into it enough. Um, I, my, I just say, be careful, just be careful,

00:25:50.180 be careful, following Gnostics who believe that they have some hidden truth that only certain 1.00

00:25:57.320 people know. And that once you find this truth, you'll understand everything. I mean, people who

00:26:04.540 claim to have some hidden deep truth that is extra biblical, that it's outside of the Bible.

00:26:09.260 You need to be really careful about adhering to them and following them. That's, that's all I'll say.

00:26:15.160 Um, eating disorder, is it spiritual or mental disorder? It can definitely

00:26:20.180 be both. We're not necessarily, we're not compartments like humans aren't compartments,

00:26:24.480 the spiritual, the mental, and the physical go together. Um, okay. I think those are all of the

00:26:32.300 questions that I got from you. Thank you guys so much. Oh, I forgot. I have an announcement for you

00:26:38.660 guys. So for any of you who are still listening to this, so my book, you're not enough and that's

00:26:45.940 okay. Escaping the toxic culture of self-love. It was originally supposed to go

00:26:49.860 come out on May 5th and I was so excited about it. But as you can imagine with everything going on,

00:26:55.060 things are just changing and things are shifting. So my book is not going to come out on May 5th

00:27:00.560 anymore. It's going to come out on August 11th. And I know those of you who have pre-ordered my book

00:27:05.280 might be really disappointed. And I totally understand that there's a part of me who's

00:27:10.320 really, that's really disappointed too. But at the same time, I understand that this is what's

00:27:15.140 best. This is what is best for, uh, the book. This is what is best for everyone right now as we are

00:27:22.140 focusing on other things that quite frankly are a lot more important than my book coming out. We are

00:27:28.060 focusing on our physical health. We are focusing on providing for our families and it's just not the

00:27:33.220 time for the book to come out, but it will be in a few months. Now, if you have already pre-ordered

00:27:38.040 my book and you're like, what the heck? I've been looking forward to reading this. Well, you are going

00:27:43.220 to be able to get an excerpt of my book. You can still pre-order it right now and get an excerpt

00:27:48.300 of my book. And I'll give you an email address and you'll send the proof of purchase. And I will

00:27:53.280 send you an excerpt of the final version of my book that you will get to read before it actually

00:27:59.100 comes out because I just want to show my appreciation to you guys. Those of you who have already pre-ordered

00:28:05.420 it and have promoted it and have been so excited about it. I'm really sorry. It's not going to be out

00:28:10.560 on the date that you guys wanted it to, but you are going to get part of it. And we're obviously

00:28:17.300 going to, um, we're going to celebrate the heck out of it when it does come out on August 11th.

00:28:24.720 But I just wanted to tell you guys that I thank you guys so much for all of your support and all

00:28:29.820 of your encouragement. I am praying for you guys, especially those of you, as I said on Instagram,

00:28:35.540 those of you who are pregnant right now, who are about to give birth, who are freaking out,

00:28:39.460 who are worried that your spouse isn't going to be able to be in their room with you, girl,

00:28:44.100 I am praying for you. I seriously am. I'm not just saying that. I've just thought a lot about how

00:28:48.720 it's probably hard to be pregnant right now, no matter which trimester you're in, but especially

00:28:52.460 if you're about to give birth, I know that this is a scary time and I am thinking about you, but I'm

00:28:57.220 thinking about all of you. I'm thinking about all of you who are having a rough go of it.

00:29:00.400 And, um, I'm thankful for you guys. Please share my podcast. If you like it, leave relatable,

00:29:09.820 a five-star review, if you love it. And I will see you guys back here on Monday.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - March 27, 2020

Ep 230 ｜ Light at the End of the Quarantine

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