A Husband's Journey To Healing & A Wife's Unfailing Devotion: Interview with Russ & Tori Taff Part 3
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we welcome Russ & Tori Taff with us today. The movie "I Still Believe" is coming out in theaters on Oct 30th and it's a documentary following Russ's musical journey and his behind-the-scenes battle with alcoholism.
We are excited to have the Taff's with us today, because addiction, shame, and secret things are all big issues plaguing many marriages today. We're excited to share Russ & Tori's story with you today because they came out of it on the other side.
Tune in to hear one couple's story of healing!
I Still Believe is a one day event! OCTOBER 30th at 7PM in theaters nationwide. Order your tickets here now!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Awesome Marriage Podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and how to have the relationship that God has designed for you. |
| 0:09.7 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. |
| 0:11.9 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith. |
| 0:15.8 | To engage with the Awesome Marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:21.2 | This is part three of the three-part special podcast series with Grammy Award winner Russ Taff and his wife, Torrey. |
| 0:26.9 | Russ's story of childhood trauma. Addiction and fame is powerful as God pulled Russ up, gave them hope, |
| 0:32.7 | and built a marriage they both never thought could happen. Now let's go to part three. |
| 0:37.4 | So when he came home, frankly, I didn't have a lot of high hopes. |
| 0:44.7 | You'd seen a lawyer. |
| 0:46.3 | Yeah, I had seen a lawyer. |
| 0:49.2 | Russ's trauma was his childhood and what happened to him in his childhood and the violence there. |
| 0:56.4 | My trauma was being married to an alcoholic. |
| 1:00.5 | And I was dealing with mine. |
| 1:04.3 | I was continuing with my 12th step. |
| 1:06.6 | I was seeing that. |
| 1:07.9 | Let me just jump in and say. |
| 1:09.2 | And what shame it brought me to traumatize her the way I was seen. Let me just jump in and say, and what shame it brought me to |
| 1:11.5 | traumatize her the way I was traumatized, you know, the things I said, things that I did |
| 1:21.1 | would just break her heart, and I would say things just to keep her away from me. |
| 1:26.7 | But go ahead, pick it up from there. |
| 1:29.8 | So when he came home, I didn't make a big sweeping decision that I'm going to stay or I'm going to leave. |
| 1:39.9 | God had miraculously, and I mean this, kept part of my heart open to him. |
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