EP 72: God Always Heals

In Totality with Megan Ashley

Megan Ashley

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🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I sit down with Brenna Blain for one of the most honest conversations I’ve had on the podcast. We talk about what it really looks like to follow Jesus while still battling mental illness, trauma, and temptation. Brenna shares her powerful story from growing up in church as a pastor’s kid, abuse, same-sex attraction, and deep seasons of depression.

We talk about what it means to suffer well, how motherhood can actually disciple us, and why God’s goodness doesn’t always look like the comfort we expected - yet we hold fast to the promise that God heals always, even if it’s not on this side of eternity. If you’ve ever asked, “Can I still love Jesus and feel this broken?” this episode is for you.

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0:00.0	McChrispy strips are now at McDonald's, tender, juicy, and its own sauce.
0:05.2	Would you look at that?
0:06.3	Well, you can't see it, but trust me, it looks delicious.
0:10.4	New mid-crispy strips, now at McDonald's.
0:13.7	Bada-b-b-p-pah-pah. What's up you guys? Welcome back to another episode. I am so excited for my guest today. She is a lover of Christ. She is a wife. She's mom. And she is an author of a book that completely wrecked me just a couple days ago as I was reading it on the plane. And I'm so excited to have a timely conversation with Brenna Blaine.
0:52.2	Hey, girl. I feel like this is crazy being here. It's an absolute
0:58.1	dream and it's one of those things when you're like everyone told me life with Christ is hard but
1:03.9	no one told me how fun life with Christ also is. Yeah. So I'm just like overjoyed to be here today. This is one of the,
1:12.9	this is one of the fun days like when I get to talk to somebody that I'm excited to talk about.
1:17.2	I'm excited to talk to all my guests, but like you or somebody I was like really, really
1:20.8	excited to talk about. So I've been anticipating this day for some time and I'm so happy you're here like I'm so happy you're here that's kind
1:28.5	that means a lot I'm so excited how are you doing today how do you feel I feel good for the lack of
1:34.4	sleep I got I feel really good yeah I'm I'm just I'm curious about what God wants to do. Yeah. In this space.
1:44.8	Yeah.
1:46.6	And humbled that he would, like, just always humbled that God's like, you can join in what I'm doing.
1:55.3	Yeah.
1:55.5	I would like you to join in what I'm doing.
1:57.7	I think that's insane.
1:58.5	I think that's always mind-blowing.
2:00.0	Yeah.
2:00.7	Especially when you know who he is and he wants you to like partner with him.
2:04.8	And you're like, me?
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