This week's episode features audio from a workshop with Sarah Chestnut entitled, Becoming Less Fragile: Self-control as Inner Dominion. 

If a biblical understanding of human dominion involves exercising care and responsibility for God’s creation, how might we learn to exercise dominion over our often chaotic inner worlds – the thoughts and feelings that fuel depression and anxiety? How might growing in self-control make us more emotionally resilient?

Sarah Chestnut grew up in a small, rural community in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, outside Yosemite National Park. Her parents own a small furniture manufacturing business and she has fond childhood memories of days spent at the workshop making sawdust and woodchip pizzas with her younger sister. 

After college, Sarah taught English in the Czech Republic for two years, then went to Regent College in Vancouver, BC for her Master’s in Christianity and the Arts, where she met Joshua. The Chestnuts have been at Southborough L’Abri since 2013. They have two children, Jacob and Lily.  Sarah loves writing poetry, gardening, and making sourdough bread. She also loves the stone walls of New England, the walking trails near L’Abri, and Indian food. 

Autumn used to be her favorite season, but after five winters in Southborough, now it’s Spring. Sarah makes pizza for family pizza night every week—not with sawdust and woodchips.

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