Podcast Episode Details

Identifying the Root of Loneliness

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Season 2 Episode 6

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If you're thinking you'll always be stuck in loneliness,

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I have an amazing guest who shares practical steps you can take today to help you cope,

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overcome,

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and draw closer to God.

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I'm talking about the lovely Julia Fisk,

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nationally board-certified health and wellness coach,

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functional medicine-certified health coach,

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award-winning author,

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podcaster,

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speaker,

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and creator of the Dear Food program.

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I'm so glad you're joining us today.

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Bye.

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Well, Julia, welcome.

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I'm so excited to have you join us here on From Hardship to Hope today.

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I can't wait for the listeners to hear from you and all you have to share.

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Would you tell us a little bit about what role your faith has played in helping you

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navigate feelings of loneliness and how others can lean on their faith in similar circumstances?

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Yes, hi.

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Well, it's so great to be here today.

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And my faith is everything for me when it comes to loneliness.

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I love the Lord Jesus.

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I have loved Jesus since I was five years old.

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And so one of the verses that has meant something to me from a child,

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even till now,

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is in Matthew 28,

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20,

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when he said,

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Lo,

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I am with you always,

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even to the end of the age.

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And I would cling to that in lonely moments as a youth.

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And

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a teenager and in college and as a young mom,

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just knowing that Jesus is alive and he loves me and he is with me and he promised

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to be with me always and forever.

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So being able to cling to that is an amazing gift as a child of God.

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What a beautiful verse to remind ourselves of the love he has for us.

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Would you share a little bit from your story about a specific moment or season in

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your life when you felt the most isolated?

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Well, I have had several moments in my life where I've felt isolated.

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When I think about it, I think that I can be isolated for different reasons.

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So sometimes I'm isolated because I'm physically stranded in a place with no one

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around and I can't get community.

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And I remember this so well when I was a new mom and my husband and I adopted twins

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who were born at 26 and a half weeks and

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And all of a sudden,

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we got the call that we were chosen to be parents for these beautiful twin girls.

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And we went to the hospital and learned that there was a very traumatic situation

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with their birth and that everything was fine,

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but they weren't eating.

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And so we ended up putting some G-tubes into their bellies before we left the

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hospital because they didn't eat.

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And we went home, and we were at home with new twins, and we were gavage feeding them.

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You put an open tube, and then you pour the milk into their stomach.

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So we had this whole setup for being able to feed the girls, but they also were throwing up.

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Published on 7 months, 1 week ago