Losing Someone You Love, And Losing Yourself: Ed and Lisa Young & Dr. Morgan Cutlip

Experiencing a significant loss or trauma often leads to an identity crisis, a sensation comparable to losing footing on solid ground. You may suddenly feel untethered, as if the person you once knew as "you" has evaporated, replaced by an unfamiliar stranger. Your faith may seem hollow, your relationships distant. It’s like you’re lost in your own life, and you don’t know how to get back. 

Our guests this week share how they coped with grief and hardship, and how they found their way back from feeling disoriented and disconnected from themselves. Senior pastor of Fellowship Church Ed Young and his wife Lisa share the heart wrenching story of their daughter, LeeBeth, and her struggle with addiction, and how it forever altered the course of their lives. Dr. Morgan Cutlip looked forward to motherhood, but was quickly faced with the real struggles that come alongside it, and made it her life’s work to help mothers cope with that loss of self, and show them how to remember who they are again. 

 

Links, Products, and Resources Mentioned:

Jesus Calling Podcast

Jesus Calling

Jesus Always

Jesus Listens

Past interview: Dr. Lee Warren

Upcoming interview: Herman Mendoza

Operation Christmas Child

Jesus Listens for Advent & Christmas

Reba McEntire

Not That Fancy

 

Ed Young

Lisa Young

Fellowship Church

AA [Alcoholics Anonymous]

COVID

A Path Through Pain

 

Dr. Morgan Cutlip

Philippians 4:8 NIV

Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself

 

Interview Quotes

“Through that pain [of losing our daughter], God just surrounded us with His indescribable love. I still can't believe it to this day, but He did, and He has, and I know He will. We had just experienced something together that nobody wants to experience, but it was something that God was walking with us together.” - Lisa Young

“Ed said right after L