When a Physical or Mental Health Challenge is Serious
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
How do you show up as a parent even if you're facing health challenges? Danny talks about a time where he fought through some back issues. Also, Becky Harling joins Jim Daly to discuss how she and her family worked through a tough cancer diagnosis. At the end, Danny and John offer hope to parents who've been diagnosed with a mental health issue.
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| 0:00.0 | Live your truth. A lot of people say that, don't they? But truth isn't something we decide. God has |
| 0:06.6 | decided it for us. And it's our job as believers to share his truth with a world in need. |
| 0:12.8 | I'll encourage you to do that through my podcast, Refocus with Jim Daily. I visit with fascinating |
| 0:18.5 | guests about important topics like gender confusion, cancel culture, and more, while helping you share God's love with others. |
| 0:26.1 | Listen at refocus with jimdaily.com. |
| 0:32.5 | Well, you might have some serious physical issues, and as a parent, what do you do when your body just isn't |
| 0:39.8 | going to let you show up like you'd like to? We're going to have some encouragement for you |
| 0:44.2 | today. I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta, who leads our parenting team and Danny. |
| 0:50.2 | There's a surprising number of parents who can't show up like they would like to, perhaps, because of a physical challenge. |
| 0:58.9 | There are stats that would tell us that's a growing number of people. |
| 1:02.7 | Yes. |
| 1:03.2 | And I remember moments where I had, you know, my back went out completely. |
| 1:07.9 | Oh. |
| 1:09.2 | And this was when you had younger kids? Younger kids. I remember one time we were |
| 1:12.6 | playing frisbee. We were on vacation just starting. It was our first activity of the long weekend. I was |
| 1:19.7 | like, yeah, we get away. And we were doing Frisbee 500 or something like that. And man, I tweaked my back. It went into one of those spasms things and oh i could |
| 1:31.0 | barely move and it it changed everything and i couldn't interact the same with my kids and it |
| 1:37.8 | those moments have given me compassion for people that deal with a serious physical issue yes Yes. That prevents them from fully engaging. |
| 1:46.8 | And I've known some families in that situation. |
| 1:49.9 | And there's been guilt and feeling bad. |
| 1:53.5 | And sometimes the family has to surround around appointments and things for that parent. |
| 1:59.4 | And they feel bad about that. |
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