How do you respond when doctors tell you your unborn child has complex heart issues? And when you discover your child will have ongoing special needs, what do you need to know about giving them the best chance at life? Listen as Jo and Luke share their story of caring for a child with a disability. Hear how they found hope when faced with challenges.
Single Parenting: A Journey of Resilience and Faith
‘I didn’t know anyone who had been in that same situation of being a single mum while pregnant.’ ‘I was still overjoyed to be expecting but then also very nervous, and then also devastated at the loss of my marriage.’ Raising kids is NOT an easy job, let alone raising a child as a single parent. But what about becoming a single parent before your child is even born? Click here to listen to listen as Steph shares her story of resilience and faith in the through the challenges of single parenting.
Fathers and Daughters
Parenting a teenager isn’t easy and we often get it wrong. Listen as we talk with Matthew about father daughter relationships, and how dads try to find the balance between wanting to protect their daughters and empowering them towards independence. What happens when we, inevitably, mess up?
Finding Connection
There are times when the pieces of our life don’t seem to be fitting together as they should. Listen to Nancy – a wife, mother, and police officer. The stress of juggling everything had her feeling disconnected and becoming a person she just didn’t recognize. Hear how a change of perspective brought the sense of overwhelm back into balance.
Living with Confidence
Finding our way in life, can be a long journey. And our sense of self worth can take a battering. This week I’m talking with Peta, a Christian life coach and speaker who is passionate about helping women build self-esteem and purpose.
No Shame
“When we talk about the ’not enoughs’ – I’m not pretty enough, not rich enough, not, present enough with my kids, the root cause of the ‘not enoughs’ says shame. I’m afraid to go there. I don’t want to be known that I’m not enough. So, I just, kind of block it and try and bury it as much as you can.” No-one is immune from shame. Listen as Anna, a counsellor, talks about what shame really is and what we can do about it.
Who Am I?
What do teenagers really think about their place in a world of confusion and challenges? Listen as Emma chats with some teenagers about identity, and how faith shapes who they are.
Grief: Where Sadness and Hope Meet
Grief: Where Sadness and Hope Meet ‘In all the ways we deal with grief, in all the advice and encouragement we dispense about getting on with life past the loss of a person dear to us – in all these attempts at consolation – we must honour our internal pain. It stands as the natural […]
Out of the Cyclone
Out of the Cyclone “I like to describe depression as a vortex, like a cyclone or a tornado or something like that. You’ve sort of got control while you’re at the end of it. But as you start cycling into that tornado, you start losing control. Sometimes you just felt like, is this going to […]
Send Me An Angel
It would be great if managing depression was purely logical, but depression can be really difficult to manage. For the person struggling with it, and the loved ones who care for them, depression can challenge and test us. But there is hope. Listen to Jane’s story of depression and how she finds hope to live through it.