Episode 611: Bonnie Lyman, Finding Hope and Peace When Adult Children Choose Different Paths

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

My friend Bonnie Lyman (active LDS, life coach, lives in Spokane, two of five children not participating in the Church) joins us to share her story. Bonnie (who is her 70’s and has been on this road for more than two decades) shares her story of finding peace and hope—and love for all her family. Bonnie has powerful gospel insights to find joy, peace, love for all her kids and how her dreams for her eternal family have not changed. I was deeply moved by Bonnie and her maturity to deal with the complexities of life and still find peace, love and hope. She is in a remarkable place of peace—and her story will help all of us find the same. If you have people you love choosing different paths, I invite you to listen to this podcast and connect with Bonnie and her work. Thank you, Bonnie, for being on the podcast. I was deeply moved hearing your story. You voice and work in so needed in our community! Links mentioned in the podcast: Bonnie’s life coach web site: https://www.bonnielyman.com/ Facebook Group for LDS Parents with children on different paths: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BridgesLDSParents Liahona Article: You Love, He Saves: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2020/07/you-love-he-saves

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:08.9	My guest on today's podcast is my new friend Bonnie Lyman.
0:14.0	Welcome to the podcast, Bonnie.
0:17.6	I'm glad to be here.
0:20.4	Listeners, I'll give you a little bit of an introduction, so you'll know what we're going to talk about for the next roughly hour.
0:27.9	Bonnie M. lives in Spokane, Washington.
0:31.8	She's in her early 70s, just barely in the early 70s.
0:37.1	She has five children and 14 grandchildren. She's active
0:40.7	Latter-day Saint and started a life coaching business. We'll link to it in the show notes. It's
0:46.4	Bonnie Lyman.com. She's going to talk about her journey of having six, five wonderful children,
0:55.9	but as they became adults in the LDS faith, some of them took different paths that as parents we weren't pretty
1:02.0	very excited about perhaps at first, some of them stepping away from the church.
1:07.0	And our hope is this podcast to be helpful for you parents that are also walking this road.
1:13.2	Bonnie's been walking this road for a while, and she has the long view of this space and has a lot of different stories.
1:19.3	And our joint prayers as you hear Bonnie's story will help you find peace and principles to keep the family relationship together, even if adult children
1:29.5	aren't participating in the church. And also, if you're a local leader or just looking for
1:36.5	principles on pastoral care to help people feel loved and supported in their individual journeys,
1:43.4	that Bonnie's story will help you.
1:45.8	Bonnie recently and her husband came home from a mission in Kenya, Africa, at least a few years
1:50.5	ago, served there for 18 months. And we may or may not hear a little bit about that.
1:57.4	But she started this coaching business after the mission, and I'm great.
2:01.5	She's podcasts on her website and is doing really good work in our community. So with that,
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