The Cycle Ends With You with Kent Darcie

The Heidi St. John Podcast

Heidi St. John

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

If you grew up in a broken home, I want you to hear this: your past does not have to determine your future.

In this deeply personal conversation, I sit down with Kent Darcie to talk about the lasting impact divorce can have on children, even decades later. We discuss the fears, wounds, and patterns that so many people carry into adulthood and marriage, and why those patterns don't have to define the next generation.

If you've ever wondered whether you're destined to repeat your parents' mistakes, this episode is for you. God's grace is greater than your family history, and with His help, the cycle can end with you.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. This is Heidi St. John. If you grew up in a broken home, if you are a child of divorced
0:07.4	parents, or if you're going through a divorce right now and you want to talk to your children about
0:12.8	how they can be okay in a post-divorce relationship with your family, this is going to be an
0:18.9	important show for you. I am joined today by my friend Kent Darcy. This is about, I think, his third time on the show. And we're
0:25.7	going to talk today about growing up in divorced homes and how they shape the way adult approach
0:32.2	marriage. The statistics are mind-blowing in our country and around the world right now.
0:39.3	Divorce is on the rise. And this conversation is going to explore the emotional impact of divorce on adult children,
0:45.3	the fear of repeating generational patterns and how couples can build healthy,
0:50.0	Christ-centered marriages despite painful family histories.
0:53.9	I'm glad you guys are here.
0:54.8	This is the Heidi St. John podcast.
0:56.3	Stick around.
0:57.0	I think you're going to be encouraged.
1:18.1	Thank you.
1:23.2	It's so great. So great to be here. It's been a while. And then I got to see you out on the road.
2:01.0	Yeah, it was a different environment. Actually, an environment we first met, actually. Yeah. Yeah, it was. And you and I had quite a bit in common, I think, right from the very beginning, because you had said that you came from a family of divorce. And were we like booth neighbors? I feel like we might have been. I'm trying to remember how I met you. We were diagonally across from each other. And there was a million people at your booth. And it was like three at my booth. And they said, you need to talk to Heidi St. John because she is the one that you need to talk to. And I'm like, well, where is she? And you were like right there. And I remember you were sitting there and there's always people in front of you and you sat down and for like that 90 seconds you were trying to eat.
2:05.3	And that's when I walked up because it was nobody there.
2:10.6	I love that.
2:11.5	Well, all I remember about our meeting is that you resonated with me immediately because I was like, wait, what is this gray
2:17.7	divorce? You're talking about something that I had never heard of before, but it's such a
2:21.6	fascinating topic to me because I came from a family of divorce. My parents divorced when I was 18.
2:27.9	And it has had a profound impact, absolutely profound, on my siblings and even on our families today. And this is a passion of yours.
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