The Season No One Talks About: Finding Hope in Life’s In-Between | Adriel Booker (Bonus Episode)
Minimalist Moms Podcast | Purposeful Life & Parenting Tips
Diane Boden
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with author Adriel Booker to talk about what she calls “the crisis after the crisis” - that disorienting, in-between space where life no longer looks the way it once did, but the path forward still feels unclear. Drawing from her book Tethered to Hope, Adriel shares how these liminal seasons - while often uncomfortable - can become places of deep transformation. We talk about the quiet ways God meets us in uncertainty, why we don’t have to grip hope as tightly as we think, and a few simple, grounding practices that can help us move through change with more peace. If you’re in a season that feels heavy or unclear, this conversation is a gentle reminder: you’re not as lost as you feel.
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About Adriel |
Adriel Booker is a writer, speaker, and curator who believes the best things in life happen while gathered around the table. She lives with her family among the gum trees and sea breezes of a small town on Ngarrindjeri Country in the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia, where they own and operate a café, vintage shop, and co-working studio for creatives. Adriel is the author of Tethered to Hope and Grace Like Scarlett and has appeared in outlets such as Christianity Today and ABC Religion & Ethics. She writes regularly at The Foundry on Substack, and can also be found at AdrielBooker.com and across social media platforms at @adrielbooker.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | For those of you that are new around here, I release bonus episodes that serve a niche part of my audience. |
| 0:05.9 | This episode is coming from a Christian perspective, so if that's not something you're interested in, |
| 0:10.5 | check out one of the other episodes that dropped this week, or join me back to your next week for episodes that you don't want to miss. |
| 0:17.1 | The crisis after the crisis really is, as I said before, when the dust settles, when the adrenaline |
| 0:23.1 | wears off, you know, I think humans have this remarkable ability actually to deal with emergencies. |
| 0:29.2 | We might be afraid of them, but when they happen, we click into gear. |
| 0:32.3 | The adrenaline kicks in. |
| 0:34.0 | We do what needs to be done. |
| 0:35.5 | We have this amazing capacity to cope. |
| 0:38.3 | But when all of that sort of wears off and when we emerge on the other side and we're trying to find, |
| 0:44.3 | you know, our way back to the status quo or homeostasis, it can be very difficult to know sort of where to locate ourselves. |
| 0:52.3 | And I think what I've seen in my own life, |
| 0:55.0 | but also as I've worked with people for a number of years, I've just seen over and over and over |
| 1:00.2 | again when people hit a hard patch, when people hit some sort of a major change or a crisis |
| 1:06.1 | in their life, it often is the catalyst for then a faith crisis or an identity crisis, perhaps both. |
| 1:12.7 | This is Diane Bowden and you're listening to the Minimalist Moms podcast. In today's episode, |
| 1:17.5 | I sit down with author Adriel Booker to talk about what she calls the crisis after the crisis, |
| 1:23.5 | that disorienting in-between space where life no longer looks the way it used to, but the way forward |
| 1:29.3 | still feels unclear. Drawing from her new book, Tethered to Hope, Adriel shares how these liminal |
| 1:35.0 | seasons, though often uncomfortable, can become places of deep transformation. We explore |
| 1:40.9 | the quiet, often overlooked ways God meets us in seasons of uncertainty, |
| 1:45.5 | while we don't have to strive to hold on to hope as tightly as we think, |
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