Infertility, miscarriage & finding joy again with Nicole Zasowski - Story 10
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
4.9 • 850 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
We are finishing our Summer of Stories with Nicole Zasowski. She is a counselor, author and speaker that shares her painful story of infertility and miscarriage. Many of you know too well what it’s like to embrace joy when you’ve walked through so much loss and disappointment. Nicole bravely encourages us all that it’s possible. It’s possible to find joy and practice thanksgiving even when mourning and grief is very present.
Make sure you follow along this week on Pardon The Mess Instagram page. I will share the picture of all of her kids that stopped me in my tracks. The photo was edited to feature her 3 kids on earth and her 5 kids in heaven all walking together on the beach. This photo so beautifully depicted the reality that Nicole is a mom of eight children, not just three. If you have been through loss like Nicole, I believe you will be so encouraged by her honesty about the emotions she feels and her journey with God through it all.
My favorite part is when she shares about the brain science behind negativity and joy. She shares practical ideas on how we can lean towards and practice savoring joyful moments. We can store these memories in a part of our brain that helps us recall them again and again.
Praying for each of you now, that you feel seen and heard through this episode. I pray that God meets you in the tender, broken and disappointed places of your heart.
Much love,
Courtney
In this episode, we chat about:
- Nicole’s journey with infertility and miscarriage
- Leaning into God with all of your emotions
- How sadness can help us find the joy
- How to practically celebrate and savor moments when life is hard
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction and Background
03:48 Struggling with Infertility and Miscarriage
08:09 Feeling Alone and Finding Support
11:35 Journey Between Children
16:01 The Vulnerability of Joy
22:24 Holding Both Pain and Joy
24:17 The Power of Celebration
27:56 Savoring Everyday Moments
30:21 Celebration as a Rhythm
35:40 Engaging God in Joy and Pain
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Welcome to Pardon the Mess. I'm your host, Courtney Defeo. On this podcast, we chat about |
| 0:11.9 | parenting and faith and all the messy and wonderful things in between. I'm like you. I'm a mom with |
| 0:16.3 | great days and hard days. I can go from laughing and loving it to crying and thinking I'm the worst |
| 0:21.5 | parent in the world. Do you ever feel like that? Well, I love this podcast because I get to simply |
| 0:26.4 | interview experts and guests and other parents that help spur me on in this journey. I really |
| 0:32.0 | want to raise kids that know love and follow Jesus and that journey can be hard. So you're not |
| 0:36.4 | alone. Did you know that part in |
| 0:38.1 | the mess is a part of the Christian Parenting Network? Christian Parenting is a nonprofit that was |
| 0:42.5 | created to give you the practical and spiritual help that you need on as many platforms and as many |
| 0:47.3 | ways as possible. So we want your help to get the word out. Can you do three things for us? One, |
| 0:52.5 | subscribe or follow on this show, two, |
| 0:54.9 | leave a review. And the last thing is, would you share an episode with your friends or on social |
| 0:58.8 | media? That will help us get the word out and equip more parents in this journey of parenting |
| 1:04.1 | with faith in mind. I want to tell you about this summer. We have a new series called Summer of |
| 1:08.8 | Stories, and it's simply that. It is 10 stories |
| 1:11.2 | in 10 weeks. Every week, there's going to be a mom that comes on and bravely shares their story, |
| 1:15.5 | and some of these are really hard topics. And so I think you'll feel seen because a lot of times |
| 1:19.9 | on podcasts, we share just the good side. We said share inspiring and encouraging things, |
| 1:24.5 | and you can leave feeling defeated like is anyone else out there struggling? |
| 1:28.4 | So you'll hear from a mom that lost her son, a mom who experienced a miracle, a mom managing |
| 1:33.2 | a child with an eating disorder, and much, much more. So although they're heavy topics, I don't |
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