How to Talk to Your Kids About Suffering (Beth M. Broom, LPC)

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🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In this episode, Beth Broom offers guidance to parents on how to talk to their kids about suffering Beth Broom is a licensed professional counselor supervisor (LPC-S) and certified clinical trauma professional, level 2 (CCTP-II). She is the executive director of Bridgehaven Counseling Associates, a nonprofit counseling practice in Raleigh, North Carolina. Beth is the founder and director of Christian Trauma Healing Network, a nonprofit organization that equips Christian helpers to care for trauma survivors. She cohosts Counsel for Life, a podcast engaging in conversations about mental health and the Christian life. She is also the author of '10 Questions About Pain and Suffering: 30 Devotions for Kids, Teens, and Families' from Crossway. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Read the full transcript of this episode.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ❖ Listen to “What Your Teenager Needs Most” with Paul Tripp: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave us a review, which helps us spread the word about the show.

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1:03.0	We always try to connect before we correct.
1:13.4	And I love that.
1:14.4	So if you have a connection, there's more of an open door to be able to say, I'd love
1:18.3	to share with you what the Bible says is true about the hope that's coming.
1:22.8	We're holding both things at the same time.
1:24.4	We're suffering, but we also pay attention to what's coming.
1:27.4	So we're not saying, your suffering's no big deal. Just think about heaven. That's not helpful.
1:31.5	But to connect with what the child is experiencing and then connect that to theological truth
1:36.4	is going to have a lot deeper, more lasting effect in a positive direction for our kids.
1:43.9	Beth Broom is a licensed professional counselor supervisor and certified clinical trauma
1:49.3	professional. She also serves as the executive director of Bridge Haven Counseling Associates,
1:55.2	a nonprofit counseling practice in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is the founder and director
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