EASTER: Love That Finds you Again

The Best of You

Dr. Alison Cook

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 956 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

He is risen! After walking through this Holy Week together—from safety, to betrayal, to suffering, to loss—we arrive at the moment that changes everything. Resurrection. New Life. In this short Easter bonus episode, Dr. Alison reflects on John 20 and the deeply personal nature of resurrection—how Love meets us, finds us, and calls us by name. This is the hope that allows us to face the hard places in our lives. This is the reason we can walk through grief without losing ourselves. Because what feels like an ending is not the end of the story. Today’s Scripture is: John 20 Connect with Dr. Alison on Instagram: @dralisoncook Join 80,000+ Soul Menders in Dr. Alison’s free email community for ongoing reflection and support. While Dr. Cook is a counselor, the content of this podcast and any of the products provided by Dr. Cook are not specific counseling advice nor are they a substitute for individual counseling. The content and products provided on this podcast are for informational purposes only.‍ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Allison. Today's scripture offers us a wiser way of being human as we step into the day.
0:12.0	Today is Easter Sunday. After a week of slowing down, of sitting with some heavy things, today is different.
0:19.2	Today I wanted to come in and celebrate with you. Because something
0:23.1	shifts on Easter that changes everything for you, for me, for all of us who are in this work of soul
0:29.5	mending. This is the reason I do what I do. It's why we can afford to go into the hard places,
0:36.2	the grief, the betrayal, the fear, the slow losses.
0:39.1	We don't go in naively. We go in anchored because we know what waits on the other side.
0:45.8	We know that healing isn't just a wish, a pipe dream, it's a promise with a history.
0:51.0	Today's scripture is John 20, 11 through 18. Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept,
0:59.5	she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white seated where Jesus' body had been,
1:05.3	one at the head and the other at the foot. They asked her, woman, why are you crying? They have taken my lord away, she said, and I don't
1:13.0	know where they have put him. At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not
1:19.0	realize that it was Jesus. He asked her, woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?
1:26.9	Thinking he was the gardener, she said,
1:28.8	Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.
1:34.0	Jesus said to her, Mary. She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, Rabonai, which means
1:41.2	teacher. Jesus said, do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the
1:46.0	father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, I am ascending to my father and your father to my God
1:52.1	and your God. Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news. I have seen the Lord,
1:57.4	and she told them he had said these things to her.
2:08.0	I love this story of Mary in this passage. She shows up at the tomb simply trying to care for Jesus, the friends she had lost, the one she had loved. She no doubt still doesn't understand
2:13.3	what has happened to Jesus or why it had to happen this way. She's grieving, heartbroken,
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