326: Opening Your Heart After Loss

The Connected Life

Justin Stumvoll

Coaching, Love, Christian, Selfhelp, Christianity, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Relationships, Romance, Health, Spirituality

4.9 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Many of us have experienced moments of life that seem to unravel faster than we can hold them together. The crushing weight of our problems and pain can feel like they will leave us broken forever. But what if love has the power to change everything?

In this episode, Justin and Abi sit down with their good friend Kyle as he shares about his journey through profound trauma, grief, and emotional shutdown—and what it looked like to slowly come back to life. From losing his mom to ALS, navigating early marriage while serving as a full-time caregiver, to watching his wife battle an eating disorder—Kyle opens up about the unexpected spiritual encounters that saved him from the self-loathing and despair that almost swallowed him alive.

If you’ve ever felt locked in shame, burdened by trauma, or like you’ve lost yourself along the way—this episode is a reminder that there’s more to your story than the pain you’ve lived through and that healing starts with just a baby step towards love.

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0:00.0	Life isn't perfect, and neither are we.
0:05.0	No, but we know how to face our fears and have some fun.
0:10.0	And talk about all the messiest things of lives.
0:13.0	Like the messiest things.
0:15.0	Get connected to yourself, get connected to others, and get connected to the life right in front of you.
0:21.6	This is the connected life with Justin and Abby.
0:24.6	That's me.
0:25.5	That's you.
0:26.5	And you.
0:27.8	So is this where you guys play the intro now?
0:32.1	Wouldn't that be so funny if every time we did the podcast, we played the intro for ourselves?
0:36.4	No, that's not a funny thing.
0:38.0	That's unfunny. That's an unfunny thing. I've had some people both say they love our intro and then
0:44.1	others are very tortured by it. Yeah. I listen to a podcast. I'm not going to name the podcast. I love the
0:48.9	podcast, but its intro tortures me every time I listen to it. Yeah. And I understand why people email us about it.
0:57.4	Yeah, we've been thinking about, we might make some changes.
0:59.9	Yeah.
1:00.3	We got some things up our sleeves.
1:01.9	Okay.
1:02.3	Anyway, I'm most excited about the person who introed our podcast.
1:06.7	Kyle is on our podcast today and we're going to have such a good today's story time and it is a beautiful healing, mushy feel good story that we are about to hear, which I think is so regulating to just take an hour and listen to a story where you're going to connect to love more.
1:24.1	I think that's beautiful.
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