What Comes Next When Life Falls Apart: An Honest Conversation with Jess Connolly [Ep 550]
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Don't Mom Alone Podcast
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Jess opens up about the winter of 2023, when her husband experienced panic attacks, heart issues, and a mental health crisis. At the same time, her family was facing major loss as her stepfather passed away after heart surgery, while also preparing for a book release. Followed by one of her children walking through a dark trial. Jess brings so much truth and gentle encouragement to anyone walking through a season that desperately needs hope, not the shallow Christian clichés we often hear, but a deep and steady hope that God is with us in the valley. Here’s some of what we cover:
- The myth of the “prosperity gospel of parenting” and why 1+2 does not always equal 3
- The pressure to assign purpose to a painful seasonÂ
- Rethinking Psalm 23 and understanding the rod and the staffÂ
- Learning to lament: why anger expressed to God is actually intimacy
- An exclusive sneak peak at her next book!Â
- Instagram: Jess Connolly | Author + Bible Teacher (@jessaconnolly)
- Facebook: Jess Connolly
- Website: Jess Connolly
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, welcome back to the don't mom alone podcast. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm your host, Heather McFadion, and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you |
| 0:14.3 | and connect you to people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone. |
| 0:19.4 | And in this episode number 550, I'm welcoming back to the show, |
| 0:24.0 | my friend, Jess Connolly. So what I've learned is that the shepherd would never take the sheep |
| 0:31.7 | through a valley if there wasn't provision on the other side. There would be no reason to go into danger. They would never take their sheep into danger if there wasn't provision on the other side. If there wasn't water, if there wasn't a pasture, if there wasn't some greater promise on the other side. So, I mean, right, we can hold both of these things of like the, and there is victory, and there is provision, and there is hope, and there is our ultimate good is provision and there is hope and there is our |
| 0:55.1 | ultimate good there just has to be but when you're in the valley of the shadow of death i think |
| 1:00.3 | what we can't do is prescribe what the provision is going to be we can't even really imagine it |
| 1:06.2 | but i think we can say like but he is here with me. Jess has been on the show many times before. |
| 1:12.4 | We've linked to those in the show notes. |
| 1:13.9 | And this conversation will stand out in my mind. |
| 1:17.6 | And thankfully, it's an easy number to remember, 550. |
| 1:21.6 | Jess and I've had some in-person, real deep conversations. |
| 1:25.6 | And I feel like in this one, you are getting to listen in. |
| 1:30.4 | Her newest book, What Comes Next, 40 Days of Healing after Heartbreak, Burnout, or Brokenness, |
| 1:39.7 | that's where we are in this conversation. |
| 1:42.8 | And if that's where you are, just in the midst of it even, |
| 1:46.4 | you don't haven't gotten to a resolution of a painful time, then I think you're going to find |
| 1:52.2 | some comfort in the upcoming words you hear. We're going to talk about the myth of prosperity |
| 1:58.9 | gospel parenting, the pressure to assign purpose to a painful season. We're going to talk about the myth of prosperity gospel parenting, the pressure to |
| 2:01.3 | assign purpose to a painful season. We're going to rethink Psalm 23, and you heard a little bit of that |
| 2:06.9 | in that clip, learning to lament, which to me was such a helpful thing in the midst of grief, |
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