Faith After Loss: Cryssie Addis on Infertility, Healing & Hope
The Mike Litton Experience
Mike Litton
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In this powerful episode of The Mike Litton Experience, host Mike Litton sits down with Cryssie Addis, founder of Braided Hope, author, speaker, and advocate for women facing infertility, miscarriage, and spiritual shame.
Cryssie shares her deeply personal journey of ten years navigating pregnancy loss, church hurt, identity, and healing — and how God transformed her heartbreak into purpose. She opens up about the unspoken emotional and spiritual battles many women face, including the silent rise of suicidal thoughts among those dealing with infertility.
This episode reveals:
How faith carried Cryssie through grief and isolation Why many women hide their pain — and how community can save lives The birth of Braided Hope and its mission of suicide awareness & compassion How shame inside the church can damage — and how love restores Why your story, scars, and survival are your ministry
Whether you’re navigating your own season of loss, supporting someone who is, or simply seeking a message of hope, this conversation will challenge you, inspire you, and remind you of the miracle of your own existence.
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Website: braidedfaith.com
Social Media: @ChrissieAddis
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| 0:00.0 | Talk about what braided hope is going to do to serve the community. |
| 0:05.5 | Well, I'm really hoping that it will offer hope and community and that connection for women who have experienced pregnancy loss or experiencing infertility. |
| 0:17.8 | A lot of times they go hand in hand. |
| 0:24.2 | You know, we've had multiple miscarriages. So I am capable of being pregnant, but I haven't been able to carry a child to full term. And so I'm labeled as |
| 0:31.3 | infertile because of that. I want also people to understand that it is such a serious, painful thing to go through |
| 0:39.8 | infertility and miscarriage. |
| 0:43.0 | There are women who are struggling so much, like you had said, in silence. |
| 0:50.8 | And they are suicidal. And thankfully, I'll be honest i've never been i've never been |
| 1:00.6 | down that path with my pain but i can tell you i have felt that spirit around me i'm a product |
| 1:08.4 | of an affair and so i didn't have a father around. He had a whole |
| 1:12.4 | other family, you know, and just that was a whole lifetime of going through things, you know. |
| 1:21.9 | And he died in 2020. And thankfully, he died and I was able to forgive him. And that was huge for me to be able to |
| 1:29.6 | come to a place of forgiveness. And just even those stories that I truly believe go hand in hand |
| 1:37.9 | with my journey of infertility and maybe even have a lot to do with my desire to be a mother and to provide a good stable home |
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| 2:14.8 | Welcome to the Mike Litton Experience podcast. |
| 2:18.3 | Everyone has a story and our passion is to help them tell it. |
| 2:23.3 | Mike is passionate about being a father, a teacher, a realtor, an investor, and a leader. |
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