Welcome everyone to Family Talk. It's a ministry of the James Dobson Family Institute, supported by listeners just like you.

I'm Dr. James Dobson, and I'm thrilled that you've joined us.

Well, welcome to Family Talk, the broadcast division of the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute.

I'm Roger Marsh moving into the co-host seat for today's broadcast, and our guest today on Family Talk is Rachel Faulkner Brown.

Now, Rachel has been on a journey not for the faint of heart, that's for sure.

Before the age of 31, Rachel had lost not one of her

husbands, but actually two. She'd been widowed twice. Out of these circumstances and through her

healing process, she later founded the ministry called Never Alone Widows. This is the largest

Christian ministry in the U.S. dedicated to helping widows find community, comfort, and purpose through healing.

Rachel has released a new devotional book called Widows Might, 365 days of strength for grief

and loss, and that will be the topic of our conversation today.

Rachel and her husband Rod live in the Atlanta area with their two children.

Rachel Falkner-Brown, welcome to Dr. James Dobson's family talk. We're grateful to have you here today. Oh, thank you, Roger. Such an honor. I have been reading Dr. Dobson's books since my children were born. So it is such an honor. How old are your kids now, if you don't mind me asking? Well, they are 17 and 19. And my son, when he was two, someone was like, you should

really read the strong will child. I was like, yes, I should. Timeless principles. That is for sure.

Oh, timeless. Absolutely timeless. So grateful. And I did. I'm grateful you're the mother of two.

It's still the mother of two. Let's put it that way. Let's want to get right to the heart of the issue here because I can't imagine what it's like for a wife to have to bury her husband by the, you know, in your early 30s, late 20s. But you had to go through that experience twice. Can you kind of give us a 35,000 foot overview of Todd and Blair and what that was like for you as a young widow?

Yeah.

Well, I was 23 and just living our best life, as the kids say, and we were, you know, dual income.

We'd gone to church that day, and Todd went to play a game of pickup basketball.

I went to a wedding shower and he had a

massive aneurysm in my best friend's driveway. Oh my gosh. And so I was just dumbfounded,

left widowed at 23. And how old was he when he passed? He was 27 and he'd run five,

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