It's Your Story To Tell

What happens when you stop hiding the pain of loving someone struggling with addiction? In Part 2 of this deeply honest conversation, Jody Ammerman shares why she is no longer willing to live ashamed of her son’s addiction story. After years of silently carrying fear, grief, heartbreak, and judgment, Jody made the courageous decision to publicly speak about her son’s homelessness and addiction—and...

Can faith quietly turn into pride without us even realizing it? In Part 1 of this powerful conversation, Jody Ammerman shares how becoming deeply passionate about her faith slowly shifted into something she never expected: spiritual pride and self-reliance disguised as devotion. As a young woman, Jody believed nothing could ever shake her faith in God—until a devastating health crisis brought her...

Complacency rarely happens overnight. It builds slowly through distraction, avoidance, busyness, and the small decisions that pull us away from the life we actually want to live. In Part 2 of this conversation, Megan and Marty Hofmann move from awareness into action as they unpack what it practically looks like to “kill complacency” and begin living with intentionality in marriage, parenting, busi...

What if the greatest threat to your life isn’t failure… but complacency?   In Part 1 of this powerful conversation, Megan sits down with entrepreneur, author, and podcast host Marty Hofmann to talk about the subtle drift that happens when we stop living intentionally. From growing up as one of ten children on an Iowa farm to building businesses, raising six kids, and navigating marriage, Mart...

What if the reason you still feel stuck… isn’t because you haven’t tried hard enough?     What if it’s because you’ve been trying to heal in a way your body was never designed to?     In this powerful and honest episode, Megan Babcock opens up about the years she spent in counseling feeling like she was doing everything “right” but still not experiencing the freedom she longed...

A diagnosis can change your life, but it doesn’t have to end your purpose.     In Part 2 of this conversation with Sarah Fox, we move beyond the moment of crisis and into the journey of rebuilding, redefining identity, and discovering how pain can become something meaningful.     After walking through the shock of her diagnosis and the emotional weight that followed, Sarah shar...

There are moments in life when everything you believed about yourself, your future, and even your faith is suddenly shaken.     In this deeply honest and powerful conversation, we step into Sarah Fox’s story, a journey that begins with a life rooted in faith and creativity, and shifts dramatically when she experiences a manic episode that leads to hospitalization and a diagnosis she neve...

What happens after the breaking point? In Part 2, we walk with Maria into the turning point of her story—the place where honesty began to replace silence, and where healing slowly started to take root. This is where her story shifts from surviving to rebuilding, from despair to rediscovering hope. Maria shares what it looked like to begin again after everything felt lost. Through honest conversati...

There are moments in life when what we’re carrying becomes too heavy to hold alone—when the thoughts we don’t understand begin to take over, and the weight of it all feels suffocating. In this episode, we step into Maria Morgan’s story—a journey marked by anxiety, depression, and the quiet struggles that so often go unseen. Maria shares how her experience with anxiety began long before she had lan...

Have you ever felt like you’re trying to love the “right” way… but instead of peace, you feel drained, confused, or even hurt? In this episode, Megan shares a deeply personal and powerful journey of what it looks like to misunderstand love—and how that misunderstanding can lead to self-abandonment, unhealthy relationships, and emotional exhaustion. Through her own story of navigating a failing mar...

In today’s episode of the "It's Your Story to Tell" podcast, I’m diving deep into the true meaning of forgiveness. For years, I lived with a limited view of what forgiveness really means: one that led me to endure harm, set no boundaries, and misunderstand God’s intentions. But as I studied scripture and brought my questions before God, everything began to shift. I want to share my journey of disc...

Part 2 is a powerful reminder that suffering does not have to be wasted. When surrendered to God, even the hardest places can become the soil where courage, calling, and compassion grow. Ashley’s story offers hope for anyone who feels like they are in a season of waiting, stretching, or carrying more than they ever thought they could. It is a testimony that God is not absent in the hard places. He...

There are seasons in life that do not unfold the way we expected. What once felt certain can suddenly become fragile, and the future we imagined can be interrupted by grief, fear, and questions we never thought we would have to ask. In Part 1 of this conversation, Megan sits down with Ashley Hopkins for an honest and faith-filled discussion about crisis, surrender, and the deep inner work that oft...

In Part 2, Rachel Dohring shares what happened after the truth came out and how that moment of honesty became the beginning of real healing. Megan and Rachel talk about the difference between conviction and condemnation, the lies that try to keep us bound to our worst chapters, and the steady love of God that calls us back to freedom. Rachel reflects on rebuilding her life, learning to recognize t...

Some stories stay hidden because telling the truth feels too costly. In this deeply vulnerable first half of the conversation, Rachel Dohring shares what it was like to grow up loving Jesus, longing for a life rooted in faith and family, and then find herself trapped in a marriage filled with confusion, manipulation, secrecy, and shame. As the pain deepened, so did the silence. Rachel opens up abo...

Have you ever felt like you’re doing everything you’re supposed to do to change your life—reading the books, going to counseling, praying, trying harder—yet something still feels like it’s holding you back?     In this episode, Megan Babcock explores the science behind three powerful elements that support lasting transformation: curiosity, compassion, and community. Building on the previ...

There comes a moment in every healing journey when something begins to shift. Understanding your past is not the end of the story—it’s only the beginning. Once you start recognizing your patterns, meeting yourself with compassion instead of judgment, and learning how to pause instead of react, a new question begins to emerge: How do you take everything you’ve learned about yourself and begin creat...

In moments when you feel most overwhelmed, reactive, or tempted to shut down, it can seem like everything inside you is falling apart. But what if those moments are not signs of failure, but invitations into leadership? Not performance. Not perfectionism. Leadership of your own healing. In this powerful continuation of last week’s conversation, Megan Babcock builds on the foundation of pausing, gr...

There comes a moment in many of our lives when we realize we are no longer truly living — we are surviving. We keep going, keep performing, keep holding everything together, yet something inside whispers that there must be more. In this opening episode of the Becoming Unstuck journey, Megan Babcock invites you into a compassionate, honest exploration of what it really takes to begin healing: telli...

Healing doesn’t stop when you leave the relationship. That’s often where the real work begins. In Part 2, Megan and Julie go deeper into what it actually takes to heal trauma at the root — emotionally, spiritually, and relationally. Julie shares how her journey moved beyond basic recovery into deeper, Holy Spirit–led healing that changed how she saw herself, others, and even the people who hurt he...

Some women don’t just survive one hard season — they survive a pattern. In this powerful opening conversation, Megan Babcock sits down with survivor advocate and author Julie Bonn Blank to explore the hidden emotional wounds behind being “the strong one.” From a young age, Julie learned to stay quiet, take responsibility for others, and believe that love meant enduring pain. What looked like stren...

In Part 2, Megan and Kim shift from awareness into transformation — exploring what begins to change when you stop enduring life and start choosing healing, alignment, and obedience instead. Kim shares how stepping into God’s calling required letting go of old identities, unhealthy dynamics, and beliefs rooted in fear. They discuss how emotional stress manifests physically in the body, why healing...

In this honest and eye-opening conversation, Megan Babcock and Kim Wright explore why so many capable, caring women stay in unhealthy relationships long after they know something isn’t right. Kim shares her personal journey of navigating relationships that slowly eroded her self-worth, revealing how emotional survival patterns can disguise themselves as loyalty, strength, or faithfulness. Together...

Many women don’t realize how much of their life has been built around endurance. Enduring unhealthy relationships. Enduring emotional silence. Enduring leadership, parenting, and responsibility without support. In this episode, we explore what actually changes when endurance is no longer the goal—and healing becomes the priority. This conversation moves beyond survival and into the lived experienc...

What if the strength you’re most proud of is actually what’s keeping you stuck? So many women were praised early for being strong, capable, dependable—the one who holds everything together. But over time, that strength can quietly turn into endurance. And endurance, when rooted in survival, comes at a cost. In this episode, we explore how emotional strength can become a coping strategy rather than...