Emily Thomas is a riot! She is funny, flat-out honest, completely relatable, and the host of a wildly successful podcast called the The Struggling Well Project Podcast. In this conversation, Emily covers some of the details that led her into a super-quick decision to get engaged after knowing a man for only one day. She recounts the subtle abuse that led her to feel hostage and the sweet way God met her as she escaped.
Emily believes that perfection is nonsense and the peace is only a perspective away. She is funny and deep, and I think you are going to want to follow her and look out for her upcoming online course for moms and women.
What we chat about:
Emily’s relatable personality
170 plus episodes of the Struggling Well Project Podcast
My first request when I started my podcast
Why Emily started a podcast
A bit about Emily’s family
Her children’s interesting interests
Growing up in a single-parent home
Personalizing your parent’s problems
Her love of getting things done and following a timeline
Marrying a stranger after being engaged for 1 day
How she met him and why she thought he was the one for her
His ability to be what she wanted
The subtle abuse…not being able to go out, to use the cell phone, or open her own mail
The portioning of food and the reprogramming that occurred in less than 4 months
What might have targeted her to be the type of person that he would capture
Not understanding her worth and her worth to a man
When she began to come up with a plan to leave
His lies and destruction of items
What her church told her when she sought help
His threats to kill himself and the intensity of the conversations they had
How she managed to get her passport and keep it with her until she had a chance to go
How she escaped with her bible, the base of her home phone, her passport, and the key to the Starbucks that she worked at
The provision of a train and a plane and the lovely lady that bumper her up to first class
How God reassured her that she was doing the right thing by escaping an abusive relationship
The gift of hard….how our backgrounds prepare us to sense what others in the same situation might be going through
Proof that God is constant and that He is going to make sure that we get to the right place
Parenting imperfectly and parenting out of trauma
The move to therapeutic parenting through counseling
Making peace with medication and the Christian church
Being ok with being in process
Not wanting our trauma to bleed over to our children
Committing to moving forward in our healing so that our children will seek help in their future
What led her to want to adopt and why they chose adoption
Getting through the baby part and all the sacrifices that go with it
The jealousy that Emily must have felt when I told her about my getaway
The recommendation that my counselor made for me
How getting away changes your perspective and your attitude
How God has used specific experiences to make Emily who she is today
The benefits of friendship, being in community, a great church, and a great spouse
How God chooses to mark our lives with his love
A new project: the launch of an online course for women and moms
Helping women discover how to value themselves and take inventory of their strengths and weaknesses
Our natural bent toward redemption and the reason we keep seeking a way to make it right
Emily’s final encouragement about conquering guilt and shame
God is a God who does a complete restoration
“If it’s not good yet, it is not done.”
God has a way to use our trial so just stick with it, God will redeem it.
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