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Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Bottles of Hope :: Lindsey Wheeler [Ep 386]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Grief has been called the unwanted visitor - it shows up when you don’t want it and it often stays longer than we would want. In the midst of seasons of suffering or grieving it’s so easy to feel isolated and to be isolated, the weight of bringing our real selves into community feeling like another burden to bear. Whatever dreams we might have had of how our life we go or what it would look like for us to serve God and others seem to be an impossibility. 

Meet my guest this week, Lindsey Wheeler. For over a decade Lindsay and her family have fought through her chronic illness and fought for her special needs daughter. She has felt the sting of isolation and the deep relief and joy of true community. In the midst of it all she has found a way to serve others and share God’s gentle love for them by sitting with them in their grief. Through her small business, Bottle of Tears (see discount code below), she reminds others they are seen in their grief - by her, by God, by a loved one that would send one of her precious vintage bottles. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

0:10.2

I'm your host Heather McFadian and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you

0:14.7

and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

0:19.4

And in this episode number 386, I am bringing on the show Lindsay Wheeler.

0:26.3

I got a knock on the door and one of the moms looked at me and said, hey, I just wanted

0:31.0

you to know like we're not going anywhere.

0:33.8

And I just balled like for someone to show up and say, I see you.

0:40.4

Your grief and pain isn't too big for me.

0:43.3

Like I'm going to sit with you in it was like, gosh, the most beautiful thing ever.

0:49.7

I'm thrilled to get to share Lindsay with you today because there was an obstacle and

0:53.6

even getting this episode recorded.

0:57.3

We have been wanting to do this for a long time.

0:59.2

And so the fact that we pushed through and as I was hearing Lindsay share her story,

1:05.1

I thought so many moms who reach out to me and you are feeling exactly like Lindsay

1:11.6

describes.

1:12.6

You are isolated whether it's because of physical chronic illness, whether it is because

1:17.0

of a child who is having severe behavioral challenges, whatever it is, you are in this

1:24.8

place of truly believing and feeling and honestly are isolated from others.

1:30.7

And so I want to offer you the hope of knowing you are not the only one.

1:35.6

And Lindsay brings that today.

1:37.4

She also is going to connect us with a great resource that God has brought into her life

1:41.8

as a ministry she does called bottle of tears and it is a gift you can give.

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