Why Suffering Makes You Strong with Sheila Walsh
Season 1 | Episode 3: In this episode of The Strong Way Podcast, Cathie, with her guest Sheila Walsh dig deep into mining the complexities of suffering – what it takes from you – but more importantly how it shapes, transforms you and makes you stronger.
Sheila Walsh is the author of more than 30 books that have sold nearly six million copies. A household name in faith circles most would be surprised to learn about Sheila’s battle with clinical depression—one that landed her in a psychiatric hospital alone and continues in many ways to this day.
In her new book, Holding On When You Want to Let Go: Clinging to Hope When Life Is Falling Apart, and in her conversation with Cathie on this episode, Sheila vulnerably shares the traumatic events of her childhood, the loneliness, anxiety, and depression that still creep into her life, how the coronavirus pandemic magnified and exacerbated her struggles and the source of the hope that keeps her holding on each and every day.
Sheila Walsh is a powerful communicator, Bible teacher, and bestselling author with more than 5 million books sold. She is the author of It's Okay Not to Be Okay, Praying Women, and the award-winning Praying Girls Devotional. She is cohost of LIFE Today with James and Betty Robison, with more than 100 million potential viewers each day. She lives in Dallas, Texas, with her husband, Barry, and their two pups, Tink and Maggie. They have one son, Christian, who is in graduate school.
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