Healing from Trauma in Adulthood, Re-Parenting Yourself + Acknowledging How We’ve Hurt Our Children
The Intentional Parents Podcast
Intentional
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Brook and Diane share a candid conversation about their overlapping journeys of healing from trauma, exploring what it means to grow emotionally and relationally. Reflecting on the “narrow way,” they talk about how true healing requires humility, acknowledging the need for God, confessing weakness, and recognizing there is always room to grow. Diane opens up about carrying pain into adulthood and how obedience shifted from rule-following for safety to a pursuit of freedom and intimacy with God.
They also dive into the challenge of addressing the ways we’ve hurt others, especially within family. Diane reflects on her upbringing in a home marked by anger and emotional distance, while Brook shares how he’s intentionally inviting his children into his own healing process through honesty and repair. Together, they emphasize breaking generational patterns by creating space for open conversations — with both children and parents — without blame or cancellation.
The episode highlights the role of the Holy Spirit as central to healing, alongside the practical help of therapy. Diane shares how her recent ADHD diagnosis brought clarity to her past and helped her confront false beliefs about herself. As they close, both point to simple, consistent practices that sustain their growth — time with God, prayer, and staying connected to trusted community — highlighting the reality that healing is a lifelong journey best walked with others.
Scripture Mentioned: Matthew 7:13-14 + Genesis 1-3
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| 0:00.0 | Attention mothers. We have the intentional motherhood retreat in Franklin, Tennessee in April, April 23rd, through the 25th to be exact. And if you haven't gotten tickets yet, we want to remind you, grab some tickets. We have group rates. We also have volunteer tickets. So if you're looking for a discounted ticket and want to come help a little bit, go to our website, Intentionalparents.org, get your tickets. |
| 0:24.3 | Megan Fait Marshman's going to be there, Rhettah Eskridge is going to be there, Elizabeth and Diana sharing, and other guests that you don't even know about. |
| 0:27.4 | Plus, incredible worship. |
| 0:28.8 | Can't wait to have you all there. |
| 0:30.0 | See you soon. |
| 0:34.2 | You're listening to the Intentional Parents podcast, brought to you by Intentional. |
| 0:39.2 | Intentional is all about spiritual formation in the family. |
| 0:43.1 | We desire to bring biblical hope and practical hope. |
| 0:46.5 | Enjoy this week's conversation. |
| 0:53.8 | Well, welcome back to the Intentional Parents podcast. Today is a special one, an afternoon |
| 0:59.0 | conversation with Diane Comer, my mother-in-law. Welcome to the show. This is your show, too, |
| 1:04.5 | but welcome to the show. Thank you. Glad to be here. We are doing something we don't normally do, |
| 1:09.7 | which is having a conversation without a lot of notes. |
| 1:13.6 | Now, we don't always, it's not like a lot of our conversations have notes, but, you know, we're, we think through what we are hoping to say. |
| 1:22.3 | Because we want that to be meaningful and helpful to people. But today we wanted to talk about a bigger thing about the |
| 1:28.8 | ongoing journey of healing from trauma, learning what that means, what it looks like to |
| 1:36.2 | heal emotionally, relationally, what it might look like to find out some of your own |
| 1:42.8 | relational and emotional dispositions and disadvantages |
| 1:46.7 | that you didn't even know along the way that have been slowing you down from healing and from |
| 1:52.2 | maybe being the best wife you want to be your best husband or father or mother you want to be |
| 1:56.5 | and we just wanted to have a conversation of what this journey has been like for us. Diane and I have different backgrounds, different stories, but have a lot of alignment and |
| 2:05.5 | overlap. And so that's kind of the setup today. And I think it's fun. A friend just said, he's like, |
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