37. (S3E8) Coping with Unimaginable Loss | with Brian & Tywana Smith
Brave Writer
Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley
4.8 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2017
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guests have experienced one of life’s most harrowing events: losing a child. Brian and Tywana Smith are fellow homeschoolers and, more importantly, dear friends of Julie’s.
They came on the show to share their story and offer support in the hopes of encouraging others who live, as Tywana describes, with “one foot in the spiritual world with Shayna and one foot in the physical world.”
You can download show notes for the podcast here: http://blog.bravewriter.com/category/podcasts/
Resources:
- You can download Free Writing Lessons here: http://go.bravewriter.com/free-writing-lessons
- Read Brian’s Blog: Beautiful Light
- Find support: Helping Parents Heal
- Learn more about Treasured Locks
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to season three of the podcast A Brave Writers Life in Brief. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Julie Bogart, your host. |
| 0:07.6 | If you want to be successful in the community, you've got to, you've got to |
| 0:14.4 | mainstream. You've got to be able to speak two languages live in two different worlds. |
| 0:17.6 | So we feel like it gave them an advantage of being able to be in that world. |
| 0:29.0 | Life is going to throw things at you, but in the end will all be okay. And I truly 100% believe that. |
| 0:31.0 | So no matter what I'm going through, I mean, I have down days, but I know that there'll be a better day. |
| 0:41.0 | Today is episode 8 of the Brave Rider podcast in season 3. |
| 0:46.0 | I welcome a married couple to our podcast today, Brian and Taiwan a Smith. |
| 0:52.0 | I've been friends with each of them individually. Brian and Tijuana Smith. |
| 0:53.0 | I've been friends with each of them individually |
| 0:55.6 | and as a couple, and their daughters |
| 0:58.2 | have been friends with my youngest, Caitrin. |
| 1:01.2 | We homeschooled together, and we were a part of the same co-op. The reason I invited them to the |
| 1:08.0 | podcast however is more somber than that. Brian and Taiwan have been asked to endure the unimaginable, |
| 1:16.5 | the loss of a child. |
| 1:18.6 | When we're talking about brave shifts in parenting |
| 1:21.3 | and homeschooling, sometimes we are asked to shift when we didn't |
| 1:26.4 | want to. Brian and Ty have been such a beautiful example of dealing with their loss, honestly, bravely, and with insight. |
| 1:40.0 | I was wanting them to share with you in case you're facing something similar in your own family or in your community. |
| 1:49.7 | We can all support one another when we go through life's hardest challenges rather than |
| 1:55.4 | turning away out of fear that it may become our lot in life if we look too closely. |
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