Embracing Your Season: Raising Littles and Understanding Teens with Paige Clingenpeel
How do we navigate seasons of parenting and marriage while embracing the struggles and successes? This podcast is designed to provide you with practical tools, wisdom, and takeaways to equip and encourage you. Join Paige Clingenpeel, a licensed therapist, minister, and mom of four, as she invites others into conversation, sharing her successes and failures with humor and humility.
Embracing Your Season: Raising Littles and Understanding Teens with Paige Clingenpeel
Episode 47-Transformative Love and Unyielding Faith: An Interview with Melinda Patrick
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In 2011, Melinda Patrick’s daughter came to her and confessed that she was experiencing same-sex attraction. Melinda, an avid follower of Jesus and an active member of her church community was completely caught off-guard, and, admittedly, didn’t handle it well. On today’s episode, Paige has a raw and honest conversation with Melinda about her ongoing journey with her daughter - and how God in His goodness has worked to transform Melinda’s heart - so she can love her daughter well and surrender her to Him. This is a truly powerful and timely conversation for any parent, family member, friend of a parent, or member of the church to learn from. Melinda’s book, The Daring Rescue, is a hope-filled memoir pointing us back to the true pursuer and molder of our hearts.
Paige’s Takeaways:
- If your child shares something secret with you, don’t panic!
- 1st point of conversation should always be: Thank you for sharing that with me. I’m sure it was so hard to let me know what was going on with you.
- 2nd point of conversation: I am so sorry that you have been struggling with this as long as you have and haven’t felt comfortable coming to tell me.
- The topic of conversation can be secondary. Especially if it has deviated from your convictions.
- The Ministry of Presence
- Sometimes our kids just need us to be with them, to listen to them.
- We are designed for community. We need people around us.
- Be wary of shutting down and isolating - it can be so destructive!
- If you are not going through an issue like this with your child, but you have a friend or other family member who is:
- Your friend just needs you to see them and walk alongside them.
- Understand that grief may be playing a very large role in their life - show up in a loving, honoring way, even if you don’t understand exactly what they are going through.
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Connect with Melinda Patrick
Melinda Patrick: https://melindapatrick.org/
The Bridge Between Us Podcast: https://melindapatrick.org/the-bridge-between-us/
His Wonderful Works: https://hiswonderfulworks.com/
Contact: melinda@melindapatrick.org
Books:
The Daring Rescue: https://melindapatrick.org/the-daring-rescue/
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