How Embracing Brokenness Brings the Life God Has For Us With Toni Collier | Ep. 574
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We are delighted to have Toni Collier on the podcast today. Toni has spoken and written plenty about the way that embracing brokenness, though counterintuitive, is the key to experiencing a full life in Christ. She talked to Dr. Kim about how –and why– to effectively embrace your brokenness personally, what that means, and what it can do for your marriage and family. Don't miss this grace-filled episode!
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
Episode highlights include:
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The faith "secret" that transformed Toni's perspective on brokenness
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The deeply personal origin of Toni's new book, and why a children's book is so important
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The biggest mistake she made early in marriage, and how she recovered
*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
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Be sure to check out Toni's children's book Broken Crayons Still Color! It is beautifully designed to help kids deal with big feelings and gain the tools to handle them well.
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And don't miss Toni's book, Brave Enough to Be Broken: How to Embrace Your Pain and Discover Hope and Healing, which is full of Biblical wisdom and practical tools to help you heal right where you are today!
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Grow closer to God while you grow closer to your spouse with the 2-Week Couple's Scripture Challenge! Click through for more info.
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The mind is a powerful sex organ, and the 25-Day Think Sex Challenge is designed to help you harness that power to experience more fun, intimate and fulfilling sex in your marriage.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.9 | I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few. |
| 0:13.4 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly. |
| 0:17.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. His passion is to help you |
| 0:23.4 | strengthen your most intimate relationship. Well, welcome to this week's awesome marriage |
| 0:30.7 | podcast. I'm so glad to have you guys here and I'm so excited to have Tony Collier join us today. |
| 0:36.4 | Tony is a speaker. She's the host of the Still |
| 0:38.7 | Coloring Podcast. She's a founder of a women's organization of the same name. She's author |
| 0:44.4 | of Brave Enough to Be Broken and her new children's book, Broken Crayons, Still Color is out now. |
| 0:50.7 | I got to know Tony and follow her and she began to do do some U-Version versus the days, I just |
| 0:55.7 | think she is awesome and I am so excited for you guys to get to know her to spend time with her, |
| 1:00.9 | and this is going to be an amazing podcast as we talk about brokenness. |
| 1:06.7 | Hey, Tony, thank you so much for being on Lost Marriage Podcast. I'm excited to have you. I've watched |
| 1:12.2 | you and followed you, and I'm so glad to meet you and have you here to share with us today. |
| 1:17.5 | I know. I'm so excited. The topic's great. The show's great. And I'm just really honored to be on. |
| 1:23.1 | It's going to be a good combo. It's so much fun. Let's jump right into this whole brokenness idea, because |
| 1:28.7 | two of your books deal with that idea of brokenness. So how do you find that? How do you find |
| 1:33.3 | broken? Where do we start? Man, you know, it's interesting because I feel like I grew up not wanting |
| 1:39.3 | that title. I was like, no, I'm not broken. You know, it came as this like demeaning word that described people that were |
| 1:47.6 | flawed and weak, et cetera, et cetera. And the more and more I actually chased after Jesus and realized that |
| 1:54.6 | there was power and strength in my brokenness, I kind of embraced this term a little bit more. |
| 1:59.6 | And what it really is in layman's terms is just |
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