AP 716: You Don’t Have to Do Life Alone: Finding Courage and Community in Hard Times || with Toni Collier

About Progress

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Today, I’m joined by my friend, author, and speaker Toni Collier, who knows firsthand what it means to rebuild a broken life. When Toni was last on the show, we talked about embracing brokenness. Since then, her life has essentially exploded in ways that would make most people retreat: betrayal, a public divorce, and the loss of her job, church, community, and home. And yet, Toni chose to let people into her pain. In this powerful conversation, she shares how doing so ultimately helped her heal. We talk about how to trust again, find the right people to lean on, and let go of the need to be the strong one all the time. If you've been wondering how to navigate the messiness of life with others, this conversation will give you hope, courage, and practical steps forward. Old episodes to support: https://www.aboutprogress.com/blog/how-embracing-your-brokenness-can-lead-to-greater-healing Sign up as a Supporter to get access to our private, premium, ad-free podcast, More Personal. Episodes air each Friday! ⁠Get on the waitlist for Italy!⁠ Single traveler survey ⁠here⁠. More for Moms Conference Leave a rating and review Check out my ⁠workshops⁠! Follow About Progress on YOUTUBE! Book Launch Committee Free DSL Training Full Show Notes This episode is brought to you by goPure Beauty, get 25% off @goPure with code PROGRESS at https://www.goPurebeauty.com/PROGRESS #goPurepod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When we're going through painful times, we want someone to see us.
0:04.0	We get tired and weary and so sad about having to play pretend.
0:09.4	It's exhausting.
0:11.1	We all get to the point where we're like, I just wish someone really knew.
0:15.8	And the truth is they want to know.
0:18.4	Really, we should be hoping and praying that we feel brave enough
0:21.8	to let someone in so that they do know.
0:30.6	Hi, this is Monica Packer, and you're listening to About Progress, where we are about
0:36.0	progress made practical.
0:39.8	I am a turtle. I am a turtle, not literally, but figuratively.
0:44.3	When times get tough for me, I isolate.
0:47.6	Like a turtle, I withdraw back into my shell.
0:51.3	I take care of myself until I'm ready to open up to others. But by then, it's
0:56.8	almost harder to reach out because nobody knew I was struggling to begin with. In fact, this
1:03.3	turtle version of me often wears a superhero cape as well, making me seem unreachable to people
1:09.4	who otherwise would care.
1:12.2	All that isolation does me no good, and my relationships no good too.
1:18.4	Have you ever felt the urge to just hide when life falls apart, whether from betrayal,
1:24.4	disappointment, or broken trust? You're not alone. So many of us struggle with isolation
1:30.3	when what we actually need the most is a safe, honest community. Today I'm joined by author
1:37.7	and speaker Tony Collier, who knows firsthand what it means to rebuild a broken life.
1:48.5	Tony came on the show a few years ago to talk about how to embrace our brokenness.
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