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Steph Catudal: Love That Carries Us
Steph Catudal: Love That Carries Us
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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Nov 14, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
How do you think about faith and hope when your prayers aren’t answered? What about when they are?
Steph and her husband, Rivs, have the kind of story you might see in a blockbuster movie. Rivs was a professional endurance athlete who was suddenly put on life support with a mysterious lung disease. But then a confluence of shocking events occurred to get him the care he needed to survive.
Steph grew up as part of the Church of Latter Day Saints, a faith that believed that if she prayed hard enough, miracles would happen. But then her dad died when she was 14. So how does she understand faith and hope and miracles after Rivs' survival?
In this conversation, Kate and Steph discuss:
How do you talk to kids honestly about life and death and hope?
How pain is a conduit for empathy
How to allow things to just suck and not feel pressure to find any brightsides
How to think about faith, hope, and miracles without idolizing certainty
Steph is someone who knows intimately that life sometimes just happens and that we have to learn to live alongside all of that pain and that joy and that love that somehow coexists.
CW: cancer, death of a parent
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Watch clips from this conversation, read the full transcript, and access discussion questions by clicking here.
Follow Kate on Instagram, Facebook, or X (formerly known as Twitter)—@katecbowler.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Steph and her husband, Rivs, have the kind of story you might see in a blockbuster movie. Rivs was a professional endurance athlete who was suddenly put on life support with a mysterious lung disease. But then a confluence of shocking events occurred to get him the care he needed to survive.
Steph grew up as part of the Church of Latter Day Saints, a faith that believed that if she prayed hard enough, miracles would happen. But then her dad died when she was 14. So how does she understand faith and hope and miracles after Rivs' survival?
In this conversation, Kate and Steph discuss:
How do you talk to kids honestly about life and death and hope?
How pain is a conduit for empathy
How to allow things to just suck and not feel pressure to find any brightsides
How to think about faith, hope, and miracles without idolizing certainty
Steph is someone who knows intimately that life sometimes just happens and that we have to learn to live alongside all of that pain and that joy and that love that somehow coexists.
CW: cancer, death of a parent
Everything Happens is brought to you by Cologuard®. Are you 45 or older? Start screening for colon cancer with Cologuard, an effective and noninvasive screening option for adults 45 and older at average risk for colon cancer. Rx only. Learn more at Cologuard.com/everything
Watch clips from this conversation, read the full transcript, and access discussion questions by clicking here.
Follow Kate on Instagram, Facebook, or X (formerly known as Twitter)—@katecbowler.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
Nov 14, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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