A Conversation About Grief, Loss, and Serious Illness with Jane Butler

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Sickness, grief, and loss are inevitable. All of us will experience or walk with close loved ones through sudden loss, or the complexities of a serious or life-threatening illness.

Jane Butler, our dear friend, graphic designer for Famous at Home, and Co-Founder of Near, joins us to talk about her husband's brain cancer, how they navigated two brain surgeries, and how she manages to continue to walk alongside him and her young kids as they face hard things.

In this episode, Jane shares her deep passion and wisdom about the intersection of life, marriage, parenting, serious illness, and grief and her new passion as the co-founder of Near, an organization offering support for those going through difficult times.

Here are some takeaways:

When someone you love receives a diagnosis and you don't know what to do
Supporting and organizing care for our hurting friends during a crisis
How to shy away from "toxic positivity"and not dismiss someone else's pain
The best way to show compassion for someone experiencing a crisis
How to lead your young family in the midst of loss, grief, and difficult seasons

Show Notes:

Learn more about Near:
https://staynear.co

Apply now for The Leader's Heart Men's Cohort:
https://www.famousathome.com/theleadersheart

Interested in group coaching with Josh or Christi? Click here for interest form:
https://www.famousathome.com/groupcoachinginterest

Order a copy of Famous at Home by Dr. Josh and Christi:
https://amzn.to/3y1jJFz

Watch this episode on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@FamousatHomepodcast

Transcript

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0:00.0	If we really believe that in Christian circles specifically, that the Lord is with us through the valleys of the shadow of death, then we can like walk through that in its mess and the mud and come out really dirty but really beautifully healed as time progresses.
0:17.6	But it's not this like we have to be able to address it, or it's either going
0:21.3	to, we'll never reap the benefits, the beauty that can come from it, or we're going to eventually,
0:26.8	when we're 80 or 90, recognize that we've never truly lived into the life we were given.
0:33.2	You are listening to the famous at home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:38.9	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:49.1	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast. Today, we have a dear friend, but also our graphic designer and children's book illustrator for Famous at Home podcast today. We have a dear friend, but also our graphic designer and
0:56.1	children's book illustrator for Famous at Home. She, if you've been to our website at famousandhome.com,
1:01.5	if you haven't, you need to go. But she's our web designer. She's our graphic designer. She's
1:05.8	everything. Jane Butler. Thank you so much for joining us today. So good to be here. So fun to talk with you both.
1:12.3	This is like I was saying to Jane before, like I'm mostly, I wasn't as excited to record a podcast as I was just to talk to Jane. So mostly this is going to be like a conversation between us and Jane. Yeah. But not invited in.
1:23.7	Not about like design, web design. She's incredible at that.
1:28.1	She's been our graphic designer from the beginning.
1:30.3	She illustrated the kids books.
1:32.0	But it even goes all the way back to college days.
1:35.3	College days.
1:36.3	College.
1:37.1	I loved you then.
1:38.8	And I love you now.
1:39.9	And now you have.
1:41.4	Now, Jane, it's just a whole different like life. And that's what we're going to talk
1:45.7	about today is like everything life is kind of thrown at you and what you're doing with it. And
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