195. A Faith That Will Not Fail (with Michele Cushatt)

Michele Cushatt returns to the podcast today to talk about something that we didn’t get to dive into last time - her personal story and journey! Michele has a brand new book coming out in March called A Faith That Will Not Fail: 10 Practices to Build Up Your Faith When Your World Is Falling Apart, and if anyone knows what it’s like for your world to fall apart, it’s definitely Michele.

Michele dives into her journey and talks about all of the devastating loss that she has endured throughout her life. She describes her life over the last three decades as being “riddled with suffering” which includes cancer repeatedly coming back.

She touches upon the importance of lament and why grief is an important part of healing, why we need to anchor ourselves to something static other than the outcome, the importance of forgiveness and how refusing to hurts only ourselves, and so much more. Please be sure to preorder Michele’s book if you want to know more!

In This Episode

[00:35] - Michele Cushatt returns to the show today!

[01:17] - Michele has a new book coming out!

[01:37] - Hear some snippets of how Michele’s world fell apart.

[05:43] - Michele describes her life over the last three decades.

[06:43] - What does the word lament mean to Michele?

[08:23] - Michele reveals what lamenting looked like when she got diagnosed with cancer.

[10:18] - Grieving is the necessary first step to new living.

[10:36] - How do we avoid getting stuck in grief?

[13:32] - Michele discusses how she conquers fear.

[15:40] - How do we anchor ourselves to something other than the outcome?

[18:35] - Overwhelming suffering can lead to panic.