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Struggle Well School

#216: It's Complicated with Sarah Mae

Struggle Well School

Emily Thomas

Education, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Self-improvement, Mental Health

5.01.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

I met Jesus. And meeting Him changed everything.

Sarah Mae is a nationally known speaker, the host of The Complicated Heart Podcast, and co-author of the bestselling book, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe. She loves traveling all over the country, speaking at conferences and events, encouraging women to walk in freedom. She makes her home in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with her woodworker husband, three spunky kiddos, and a naughty yellow lab named Memphis.

WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:
  • Sarah’s complicated family story

  • why Sarah decided to include portions of her mother’s journals in her book and what those journals meant to her personally

  • defining gaslighting

  • Sarah’s abortion story

  • how the hope and kindness of God transformed Sarah’s life

  • replacing core lies with God’s truth

  • learning how to set boundaries

  • accepting reality and letting go of expectations

  • how doing the work of our own healing impacts legacy of our family

  • stopping generations of unhealthy patterns

LINKS MENTIONED:

Annie F. Down’s EnneaSummer The Place We Find Ourselves Surrendering the SecretForgiven and Set FreeHer Choice to Heal: Finding Spiritual and Emotional Peace After AbortionWorthy of Love: A Journey of Hope and Healing After AbortionBetter Help: get 10% off your first month when you visit betterhelp.com/msw

CONNECT WITH SARAH MAE:

website | instagram | facebook | twitter

CONNECT WITH EMILY:

website | instagram | facebook | patreon

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Manchester, the most magical place to be this Christmas.

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Soak up the amazing atmosphere and discover the perfect gift at Manchester's world famous Christmas markets.

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With over 200 stalls, a giant covered ice rink, festive

0:16.4

light trails and fully licensed bars and food outlets. Plus with special festive Sundays

0:22.3

filled with free entertainment.

0:24.0

There's truly something for everyone.

0:26.0

Make it a festive season to remember with Manchester Christmas markets.

0:31.0

Open every day from the 10th of November to the 21st of December.

0:35.0

Find out more at Manchester.gov. UK slash Christmas.

0:39.0

So, listen, what we're doing right now is we're going to prank call Rebecca.

0:45.2

We think that she has a movement her voicemail because she said she did.

0:50.3

Unfortunately we both asked her to remove her voicemails on the same day. So I

0:54.7

text her and I was like, oh I tried to call you about something. She's probably like

0:59.2

they're obsessed with voicemail. They're so old school. Those sisters. They're weird. Okay.

1:07.4

Let's slide down her. So what's our what's your issue going to be this time? Are you

1:11.0

still mad about the rugable? Yeah Yeah I want to be able to do the

1:13.8

rugable and then I have another one. I want to call her about, I want to see if Gavin could be a baby model next time.

1:20.3

I love it. Okay, good. All right. Call has been forwarded to an automated voice messaging system.

1:26.0

At the tone, please record your message.

1:28.0

When you finished recording, you may hang up or press one for more options.

1:32.0

This is Priscilla Maccabee from Rugable.

1:36.0

I understand that you don't appreciate our patented corner roll design as you have mentioned on your very public Instagram account.

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