Belief for the impossible
Stories
Share Your StoryEvery one of these came from a listener who decided to stop hiding. They're shared here with permission — some with names, some anonymously, all true.
Freedom after twelve years
I carried a secret for twelve years of my marriage. Episode 1 wrecked me — I pulled into my driveway and couldn't get out of the car. That night I told my wife everything. It's been eight months. We're in counseling, we're in community, and for the first time in my adult life I'm not hiding. Your story gave me the courage to start mine.
As a pastor's wife, I thought I had to have it together for everyone. Listening to Jourdan talk about staying — and being honest about how hard it was — gave me permission to stop performing. I told my small group the truth about our marriage last month. They didn't run. They came closer.
The conversation I avoided for years
Your episode on talking to kids about hard things pushed me to finally have the conversation with my 13-year-old that I'd been avoiding. It went nothing like I feared. He cried, I cried, and he said, "I thought you'd be mad." We talk differently now.
I'm 23 and I've never heard people of faith talk this honestly. I drove my roommate crazy quoting the Community series. We started a group with four other girls because of it. Don't fight alone — we wrote it on our whiteboard.
God wasn't finished
After my divorce I was sure my story was over — that God was done with the broken version of me. A friend sent me The Impossible Becomes Possible. I've listened to it six times. I'm back in church for the first time in four years. Not fixed. But not hiding, and not alone.
My husband and I listen on our Friday drives. Episode 14 about family secrets started a conversation that lasted three hours in a parking lot. We called his mom that weekend. Forgiveness is slower than podcasts make it sound — but it started.
I sent Episode 1 to my brother with the message "this is me." It was the first time I told anyone. He called me within ten minutes and the first thing he said was "I love you. Nothing changes that." We talk every week now.
Your story isn't over
Whatever you've walked through, telling the truth about it is the first step. Share it with us — publicly, anonymously, or just between us.
Share Your Story