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Real Talk with Rachel Awtrey

Finding Comfort During Pain & Grief with Kaitlin Wernet | Episode 49

Real Talk with Rachel Awtrey

Rachel Awtrey

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Relationships

5647 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, Mary Scott sits down with Kaitlin Wernet. Kaitlin just released her new book “The Book If Comforts”. They talk about what life was like after Kaitlin lost her brother, and the journey she went on with the Lord as she suffered this devastating loss. They discuss how to show up for those in your life who may be going through loss or grief, and how what we believe about God impacts how we mourn in our seasons of suffering on earth. Kaitlin is a writer and editor, both full-time and freelance, with a degree in mass communications and journalism, emphasis in public relations and a minor in psychology. She is an ENFJ + Enneagram type 7 + Nashville resident fangirl + South Carolina Gamecock + football fan + cat lady (exceptions made for Goldendoodles) + oxford comma hater + Taylor Swift convert + emoji girl lookalike. You will love Kaitlin! Show notes: www.behindtheblisspodcast.com/shownotes/49 BTB Instagram: www.instagram.com/behindtheblisspodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.7

Welcome to the Behind the Bliss podcast, where Mary Scott Mercer and Rachel Autry bring weekly conversations to encourage, inspire, story tell, and share.

0:43.1

Each episode is designed for you to feel met in your mess and balanced in your bliss.

0:47.6

Here's today's conversation.

0:58.5

Welcome to another episode of the Behind the Bliss podcast.

1:03.5

I'm your host and today I'm interviewing my new friend, Caitlin Wernett.

1:07.7

Caitlin is a writer and the new author of The Book of Comforts.

1:10.0

When someone is grieving, what should we say?

1:12.6

How can we help? How do we comfort without offering shallow platitudes? In times of sorrow, Scripture beckons us to look up and out

1:18.3

because our help comes from the Lord. The Book of Comfort stands in the gap between suffering

1:23.3

and hope offering leaders the abiding comfort found in scripture. Caitlin is a Nashville gal and

1:29.0

Indiana Graham 7 and I simply loved our conversation. So without further ado, here's my

1:34.6

conversation with my new friend, Caitlin Wernett. Hey Caitlin, how are you today? I'm so good. How are you?

1:43.9

I'm good. I'm so excited to have you on the show today. And we don't know each other actually, but I have kind of known who you are for a long time because I've been a reader of She Reads Truth and kind of found your writings a few years ago. And I'm so excited about your new book. Thank you so much.

2:02.9

I'm so excited to be here and get to chat with you. Awesome. Well, can you just take a few minutes

2:08.1

and take us kind of through your life, who you are, what you do, and kind of just the season of

2:14.4

your life that you're in? Yes. So I currently live in Nashville, Tennessee.

2:20.7

I grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, which is not confusing ever at all. But I am a writer

2:29.1

and now a co-author of a book called The Book of Comforts. But I also get to write other really

2:36.3

fun places like She Wraves Truth, you mentioned. I've written for the Abide Meditation app, Fava

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magazine, Brio magazine, a few of other of my favorite places. But I also, I work full-time as a

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