Forgiving My Alcoholic Mother Sarah Mae Ep 257
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Author, blogger and podcast host Sarah Mae joins me to share her story of working through the generational bondage of alcoholism and the verbal and emotional abuse she suffered from her mother.
“I remember yelling out, 'I'm going to kill myself,' and her saying, 'Go ahead, I dare you.' And that was it for me. I just bawled because I felt so unloved and so confused.”
In her new book The Complicated Heart, Sarah takes us into her painful past and all she experienced with her mom. She also shares the hope and victory of how God wooed her heart and changed the direction of her family forever.
“Dysfunction does not have to be your legacy. It does not have to be your identity. And you do not have to pass it on to your kids. It doesn't matter if you were born into it, married into it or you created it yourself. There is always victory on the table. We just have to be willing to pick it up.”
Throughout our chat, Sarah is candid and encouraging. She shares openly about the abortion she had at 16 and the healing she’s experienced from bravely speaking out against the shame of past sin and accepting God’s grace as all-sufficient.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | I am your host Heather McFadian and this is the place where I'm going to walk alongside |
| 0:15.9 | you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone. |
| 0:22.1 | In this episode, number 257, I have the privilege of chatting with longtime friend and author |
| 0:27.8 | of the new book, The Complicated Heart, Sarah May. |
| 0:32.2 | Disfunction does not have to be your legacy. |
| 0:36.8 | It does not have to be your identity and you do not have to pass it on to your kids. |
| 0:42.6 | It doesn't matter if you were born into it, married into it or you created it yourself. |
| 0:47.4 | It does not have to be your destiny or identity. |
| 0:50.3 | There is always victory on the table. |
| 0:52.0 | We just have to be willing to pick it up. |
| 0:54.8 | Sarah May lives with her family in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Amos Country. |
| 0:58.9 | She has three kiddos and two naughty puppies, a husband of 16 years who is a woodworker |
| 1:05.8 | and today she's sharing some of the harder places in her story. |
| 1:10.2 | But the goal is hope for y'all to share the healing that God's brought to remind us that |
| 1:16.7 | our past does not determine our future. |
| 1:19.7 | I first heard a little bit of Sarah May share her story from a stage, probably about seven |
| 1:25.6 | years ago. |
| 1:26.6 | And I remember thinking the world needs this. |
| 1:30.2 | And again, I was reminded this week when a listener reached out with a little bit of |
| 1:34.1 | her story that there are so many of us walking around in bondage to our past. |
| 1:39.2 | And God is asking us to hand it over to him so he can release us and we can walk forward |
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