Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.com, and you're listening to the

Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for Women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden

emotional and spiritual abuse.

Welcome to episode 35 of the Flying Free Podcast. Today we're going to be talking

again with Gretchen Baskerville, author of an upcoming book called

Life-Saving Divorce. Gretchen was actually with us two episodes ago,

episode 33, where she talked about

busting the myths of singleness.

And today we're going to be doing some more myth busting, okay?

We're going to be talking about shame busting your divorce.

There's three particular tracks we're going to go down.

One is the idea of moving from shame and fear to ministry.

A lot of times people who are divorced think that they are disqualified from serving God.

Is that really true? She's also going to share with us the

latest research on outcomes for children of divorce and finally we're going to

talk about the spiritual crisis that comes when you find yourself in a divorced situation.

Where is God in divorce and what is the outcome as far as finding a new partner. Are you disqualified from being

a happily married someday? So let's begin. Gretchen, welcome back to the Flying Free Podcast.

It's great to be with you again, Natalie.

Let's first talk about how divorce affects the way we see ourselves.

You know, some people think that, well, they even hear from their churches that if you're divorced, you aren't able to serve in certain ministries, they might even if they go to a church

where that's more open to that they might still feel like they're

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