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The Nothing Is Wasted Podcast

Episode 226 - Grieving What Never Was with Megan Smalley

The Nothing Is Wasted Podcast

Davey Blackburn and Aubrey Sampson

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

How do you grieve what never was? What does it look like when your grief is over a dream rather than a reality? For Megan Smalley, learning to navigate the unseen grief and pain of infertility was difficult and at times, lonely. Megan experienced the whole range of emotions that came through her initial diagnosis of infertility to the arduous, sometimes discouraging path through IVF to the wrestlings that came after three miracle babies. At no point was her journey easy, but within it, God had important lessons and unending comfort to guide her through. And from that, she was able to in turn help others walking a similar path through an online community called The Infertility Sisterhood.In this episode, Megan joins Davey to talk about learning to take difficult seasons step by step, why knowing the truth of God's Word matters in the midst of it and how community can help us along the way in our pain. Whether infertility is part of your story or not, this conversation will teach you how to walk in your own hurt over the loss of a dream as well as how to help others through theirs.   Website: https://www.megansmalley.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MEGANSMALLEY/ Book: Give Grace: How to Embrace the Beauty of Life’s Brokenness https://www.amazon.com/dp/140021758X?psc=1&smid=A2JP70VDYUHTKB&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp The Infertility Sisterhood: https://www.theinfertilitysisterhood.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Nothing Is Wasted Podcast, where we believe that no matter what you've

0:09.6

gone through in life, God is inviting you to partner with Him to take back your story.

0:15.1

On this podcast, we have inspiring conversations with people who are doing just that.

0:20.4

And now, your hosts, Davey Blackburn and Aubrey Samson.

0:28.4

Hello, welcome to the Nothing Is Wasted Podcast.

0:30.4

My name is Davey.

0:31.4

And I'm Aubrey, and we're so glad that you're with us today.

0:33.8

We have another incredible episode for you, Davey.

0:36.5

We are joined by Megan Smalley, who is, I mean, she's an author.

0:41.7

She's a CEO of an online apparel company called Scarlett and Gold.

0:46.2

She's also a community leader for those walking through infertility.

0:51.2

It's called the her community's called the sisterhood.

0:54.1

She's a wife and a mother of three, and her story is I'm so glad we're talking about

0:58.4

this because so many couples struggle with this, the pain of infertility.

1:05.0

But I don't know that we give a lot of voice to it.

1:07.3

And so she experienced four years of infertility,

1:11.0

went through two rounds of IVF.

1:12.9

She's a mother of three now, but what she says, and I think this is really important,

1:17.6

that it's not something you just move on from once you have a baby, right?

1:21.8

So it's not just like, oh, I'm healed now.

1:23.4

It's that there's so much pain in that season, but it's powerful about her story.

1:27.7

She was also awakened to so much grace.

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