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This Unexpected Life

Carrie M Holt

Welcome to This Unexpected Life, a podcast designed to equip and encourage parents and caregivers of children with disabilities so they can embrace their journey with hope, faith, and resilience. With over twenty years of parenting experience, Carrie M Holt is a story-telling companion for caregiving mothers, exploring the hope and healing found in Jesus Christ—one story at a time.

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Episodi

66 episodi

  1. Trusting The Sovereignty of God Through Chronic Pain, Illness, and Disability with Carolyn Dale Newell 46:36
  2. This I Call to Mind: Remembering God's Faithfulness in Seasons of Suffering with Angela Mackey 38:34
  3. What To Do When Disability Parenting Feels Overwhelming: Faith-Based Tools to Reduce Stress and Anxiety with Kristin Faith Evans 40:31
  4. Raising a Daughter with Spina Bifida: Faith, Caregiving, Grief, and Hope After Loss with Lacy Williams 51:22
  5. A Prenatal Diagnosis and Spina Bifida: When Motherhood Doesn’t Go as Planned with Mandy Rawls 52:02
  6. When Caring for Yourself Feels Impossible: Grace, Nourishment, and Freedom for the Caregiver with Brandice Lardner 44:57
  7. When Caregiving Changes Your Marriage: Building Connection, Repairing Conflict, and Caring For One Another with Angela Vinokur 41:39
  8. When Caregiving Takes a Toll: Caring for Your Nervous System and Your Soul with Leslie Hansen 51:22
  9. Caring for the Caregiver: How Your Story, Grief, and Community Can Lead to Healing with Cathy Loerzel 45:27
  10. Finding Jesus in Chronic Illness, Weakness and Caregiving with Kristen Wetherell and Sarah Walton 57:35
  11. When Shame Shapes Your Story: Finding Freedom, Healing, and God's Love in the Special Needs Parenting Journey with Dr. Zoe Shaw 46:51
  12. When God Doesn't Prevent Suffering: Wrestling with Difficult Questions in Disability Parenting with Sandy Ramsey-Trayvick 47:51
  13. Learning to Embrace the Life You Didn't Expect: Finding Peace, Purpose, and Prayer in the Special Needs Parenting Journey with Jenn Soehnlin 35:31
  14. The Autism Caregiver's Journey: Finding Jesus in Perfectionism, People-Pleasing, and Isolation with Sarah Mays 43:24
  15. When You Feel Alone: Finding God’s Provision and Presence in a Rare Diagnosis with Brianna Johnson 37:47
  16. There Was Jesus: Knowing God’s Presence in Trauma, Loss & Disability Parenting with Becky Davidson 42:47
  17. When Your Child Asks Difficult Questions: Navigating Faith, Medical Motherhood and Rare Disease with Katie Seelig 40:26
  18. When Your Yes Is On The Table: Trusting God Through Disability Parenting, Adoption, and Trauma with Johnna Hensley 45:10
  19. The Special Needs Parenting Journey: Faith, Marriage & Finding Hope in the Life You Never Expected with Dr. Joe & Cindi Ferrini 51:25
  20. Desperate Prayers and Deep Faith: Finding God in Long-Term Caregiving and Loss with Rachel Wojo 38:47
  21. From Disability to Calling: Finding Purpose, Identity & Joy in Christ with Anna Harp (Part 2) 36:43
  22. Cerebral Palsy, Faith & Overcoming Fear: A Teen’s Journey from Feeling “Less Than” to Trusting God With Anna Harp (Part 1) 42:39
  23. Why Disability Ministry Isn’t One-Sided (And What the Church Is Missing) with Barb Stanley 43:20
  24. Autism, Faith, and the Gospel: Raising an Autistic Child to Know God with Larah Roberts 48:32
  25. The Hidden Story of Special Needs Siblings: Growing Up with Disability and Raising a Child with Autism with Sandra Peoples 40:49
  26. When I Stopped Praying for Healing: Autism, Anxiety, and a God Who Stayed with Camille Joy 35:49
  27. How to Process Grief as a Special Needs Mom: Lament, Sibling Dynamics & Trusting God in Ongoing Medical Trauma with Jen Potter (Part 2) 31:22
  28. When Suffering Isn’t Resolved: Finding Rest, Faith, and Living Life Open-Handed with Jen Potter 39:00
  29. When Caregiving Feels Unseen: Finding God’s Presence in Lifelong Special Needs Parenting 35:27
  30. The Long Wait: Trusting God Through Autism, Infertility, and Unanswered Prayers with Jenna Erlandson 45:27
  31. When Special Needs Parenting Becomes Survival: Faith, Endurance and Autism Parenting with Celeste Shally 46:32
  32. Finding God in the Autism Journey: Jeanetta Bryant on Hope, Healing, and Advocacy 43:12
  33. When Fear Clouds the Future: An Advent Reflection for Special Needs Moms 15:00
  34. God With Us in the Unexpected: An Advent Reflection For Disability Mothers 17:53
  35. Finding Rest in Caregiving: Burnout, Faith, and Letting Go with Jess Ronne 33:19
  36. Acceptance: Learning to Live, Grieve, and Thrive in a Life You Didn’t Expect 20:39
  37. When Grief Needs Words: Learning the Practice of Lament 26:26
  38. When The Grieving Cycle Includes Anger: How to Respond with Curiosity, Connection, and Coming to God 17:17
  39. The “Shoulds” That Sink Us: Untangling Guilt in Grief 13:33
  40. Control to Trust: Facing Fear and Anxiety in This Unexpected Journey 20:50
  41. Marriage, Caregiving, and Connection: A Conversation with Bruce Holt (Part 2) 28:08
  42. A Father’s Voice in Special Needs Parenting with Bruce Holt 26:14
  43. From Diagnosis to Heaven With Breena Holt on Grief, Guilt, and God’s Faithfulness 29:52
  44. Living Between Grace and Glory with Breena Holt on Fear, Anxiety, and God’s Goodness in Suffering 48:55
  45. Withness in the Wilderness: Finding Renewal in Psalm 23 39:18
  46. Creating Community and Connection for Moms in the Disability Space With Labeled & Loved 35:53
  47. Finding Purpose and Perseverance in Suffering with Dr. Nicole Wilke 22:11
  48. Overcoming Adversity: A Journey of Resilience with Dr. Nicole Wilke 27:26
  49. A Journey of Acceptance With Kara Ryska 32:20
  50. Finding Hope In The Unexpected Grief With Paula Romang 34:09