Finding Joy In Hard Journeys: Recent Episodes
Stacy Fulton & Jessica Davenport
Jessica and Stacy have both walked through some really hard journeys in their lives. Through this podcast, they'll share behind the scenes looks into how they've struggled to pull themselves out of pits along the way and how they have managed to find joy in every part of their journey.
The process of waiting on God can be grueling. It's easy to get frustrated when we want things in our time and done our way. But, waiting on God and trusting His timing involves trusting His goodness to know that when He answers, He does it in the perfect timing and in the best way possible.
In this episode, Jessica and Stacy share some of their times of waiting on God to answer and how trusting Him through the process was always worth the wait.
Having people you look up to and respect let you down can be hard to deal with. In this episode, Stacy shares alot about how she experienced hurt from the church in how they responded to covid while she and her family, as well as many others, were in the trenches fighting for the ones they loved battling covid.
Through this experience, she learned that two of the most important things you can do is Love God and Love People. And not just love people, but love them so fiercely they experience the love of God through you.
But most importantly, if you've experienced hurt from the church, if you want to find joy in the midst of your journey, you have to come to a place of letting that anger go and trusting God with your pain. He can put you back together again.
When traumatic things happen in our lives, we sometimes don't even realize the trauma they leave within us. Later on, things can happen that bring up those emotions and fears that the trauma caused. We go right back to the moments, the emotions, even the smells. We can find ourselves in pits of anxiety and depression and not even realize something triggered a post-traumatic memory for us.
In this first episode talking about trauma, Jessica shares some of the traumatic things that have happened through her journey with Kruz and Paizlee and how recognizing triggers can be a huge help in managing those emotions that suddenly rise up when something happens.
It's so important to have people you can trust with your journey on days when anxiety or depression gets the best of you. They don't need to have all the words to make you feel better, they just need to be your safe place in the midst of it.
Meet Jessica and Stacy! They've both walked through some hard journeys and still in the middle of it now. They share a little about their stories and how they are learning to find joy in every hard place they travel.