Hey friends, I'm Jess Connolly. I'm an author, a coach, a Bible teacher, and a local church leader,

and I love talking to real people who know what it means to have full lives, but also want to walk in abundance.

This podcast is for you. It's not my podcast. It's ours. It's for people who crave lighthearted conversations and deeply spiritual truth.

It's for people who are busy, tired, waiting, growing, dreaming, working, or praying about what's next.

Wherever you're listening from, if it's quiet, mundane, or busy, I am praying for you

and I'm so glad you're here. Let's go.

How do we show up for our people when they're going through a hard time? What do we say

when it feels like there are no words? And how do we ask for help when we're the ones going through a hard time?

This episode is for the friends.

It's for those of us who want to love well and those of us who might need an extra

support right now.

This is definitely an episode you're going to want to send to a friend so you can listen

and discuss together. Let's dive in.

Hey friends, it's Jess here and I am chiming in. If you've never listened to the podcast before,

hey, it's so great to meet you.

And if you've been listening, you know that we have been trying to be as vulnerable and transparent as possible to say this has been an extremely hard year in the life of our family.

It started about a year ago when my husband began having a mental

health crisis. It moved into a spring of just absolute trauma and grief as my family lost our

stepdad. Then all around that, we've had just private and other issues going on that have been

really, really, really heavy.

I've never lived a year like this year.

And in some ways, some things were kind of settling in to the long-term grief of it.

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