EP 67: The Ache and the Anchor
In Totality with Megan Ashley
Megan Ashley
4.9 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
When my son was diagnosed with autism at age two—and later with Fragile X syndrome—I entered a kind of grief I wasn’t prepared for. It wasn’t loud or dramatic. It was quiet, slow, and deeply sacred. It was the grief of letting go of the life I imagined and learning to embrace the one God was writing.
In this deeply personal episode, I open up about the pain, surrender, and beauty that come with raising a child with special needs while clinging to faith in Jesus. I talk about the silent ache of broken expectations, the sacredness of honest lament, and the unexpected closeness of God in the middle of it all.
Grief doesn’t always come from death—it often comes from the loss of an idea, a dream, or a version of life we thought we’d have. But even there, God is present. Even in our most unspoken sorrows, He is faithful. And even when healing doesn’t look the way we hoped, He still gets the glory.
If you’ve ever carried a grief you didn’t choose, or wrestled with faith in the face of life’s hardest questions, this episode is for you. May it remind you that you’re not alone—and that hope still lives here, too.
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| 1:02.2 | slash Wondery, UK. What's up, you guys? Welcome back to another episode of Inotality. I'm |
| 1:08.8 | your host, Megan Ashley. Listen, we're going to have a conversation |
| 1:12.3 | that is extremely sensitive. And so I kind of just wanted to state my attentions before we go |
| 1:21.3 | into the conversation. I try to do a really good job at being transparent and vulnerable with this platform and using myself and the experiences and the lessons that I have learned to maybe help you feel more seen and help you navigate through your journey and your faith walk with the Lord. |
| 1:46.6 | So this conversation, I guess I just, I'm asking for grace. |
| 1:51.3 | I'm asking for grace for me because I'm sharing some something that is probably the most |
| 1:57.9 | personal thing to me, which is my children, sharing about one of my |
| 2:03.2 | children. And grace with each other. I know that this particular conversation can open up a lot |
| 2:12.4 | of opportunity for division and discord and arguments and all the things. And that's not the intent for this. |
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