How to Walk With God When You Don’t Want to Live | Christine M. Chappell

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🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In this powerful FamilyLife Today episode, hosts Dave and Ann Wilson sit down with biblical counselor and author Christine Chappell to dive deep into her personal battle with depression, self-harm, and suicidal ideation that led to a psychiatric hospital stay.

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0:00.0	Dave and I joke that we've mastered fighting in our marriage.
0:03.9	Yes, we have.
0:05.1	But what we've really learned is that stressful situations trigger different reactive coping styles in each of us, which can really harm relationships.
0:14.5	Oh, yeah.
0:15.3	Ron and Nandiel have created an assessment to help you discover your style.
0:20.3	So take it at familylife.com slash mindful marriage and get chapter one of their book.
0:26.5	Go to family life.com slash mindful marriage to start building better relationships mindfully.
0:33.0	The Lord was asking me not to work harder at being not depressed, but to walk with him through it
0:39.1	where I was at, to ask him, show me how I'll live in this moment when I feel like I don't want to
0:43.0	live at all. How can I glorify you with my life? That encounter with the Lord through his word and
0:47.9	his world gave me that fresh sense of hope. I just think your story is so inspiring.
0:56.3	Okay, I'm going to start today a little different.
0:58.6	Oh, boy.
0:59.7	What is that mean?
1:00.6	I'm going to read something.
1:03.5	Before you even introducing our guest?
1:05.2	I just want to read this.
1:06.4	You're going to read something she wrote, right?
1:08.0	Yeah.
1:08.6	Or something you wrote.
1:09.6	No, something Christine wrote.
1:12.3	All right.
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