355: How I Started Trusting Good Things

The Connected Life

Justin Stumvoll

Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Christianity

4.9 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

We’ve all felt it—the pit in your stomach that says the good can’t last, or the ache that whispers the pain will never end. Living braced for impact robs us of the very joy and resilience we’re longing for.

In this episode, Justin and Abi get personal about financial fears, health crises, PTSD, and the cycles of marriage that tested their ability to trust goodness. They share how childhood pain shaped their anxiety about loss, and what helped them shift from sabotage and foreboding to presence and freedom. From bite-sized safety practices to the science of post-traumatic growth, they unpack how to expand your capacity for joy, let go of false control, and anchor your well-being in something deeper than circumstances.

If you’ve ever feared the other shoe will drop—or felt stuck in a season that won’t end—this conversation will remind you: you can make it through, and you will be okay.

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0:00.0	Life isn't perfect, and neither are we.
0:05.6	No, but we know how to face our fears and have some fun.
0:10.0	And talk about all the messiest things of life.
0:13.0	Like the messiest things.
0:15.1	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.
0:27.6	I'm surprised we haven't killed each other.
0:30.7	I don't know where this is going, but I agree.
0:33.8	Well, I was thinking about the different ways that we go about doing life.
0:37.6	Me and you?
0:38.4	Yeah.
0:39.1	So your anxiety goes through the roof at planning most things.
0:44.7	And your anxiety goes through the roof at not having to plan.
0:48.3	So we're in partnership with exact opposites.
0:51.3	Which means one or both of our anxiety is always growing. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:57.9	Like if I'm having less anxiety, you're having more. If you're having less anxiety, I'm having more.
1:02.5	It's like, how do you balance anxiety and just have an equal amount of anxiety at all
1:07.4	points? I actually think that that's kind of what relationship is.
1:11.8	Like, if I was to sum up what all of our fights have been about in our marriage, it's been
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