Episode 13: Katherine Wolf on suffering, hope & meaning

Katherine is a world-renowned speaker and author. She has spoken to crowds as large as 65,000 people and has nearly 250,000 followers on Instagram. Since it's release, Hope Heals, the memoir she wrote with her husband Jay, has sold over 100,000 copies. 

Back in 2008, Katherine was working as a model and actress in Hollywood, and had just given birth to her first baby. One afternoon she was in her living room and suffered a catastrophic stroke, caused by a congenital brain defect she never knew she had. 

After a sixteen-hour brain surgery, forty days in the ICU, a year in neuro rehab, and eleven operations, she miraculously survived and continues her recovery to this day.

Despite all the challenges she has faced, Katherine is one of the leading advocates for hope. In today’s conversation, we explore not only how to walk through suffering, but how to thrive in the midst of it. As you’ll learn, life can be simultaneously good and hard at the same time. Hope is possible for all of us, no matter what we go through.

 

Chapters:
0:00 - 1:33 - Trailer
1:33 - 2:49 - Intro
2:49 - 6:24 - The catastrophic stroke
6:24 - 13:42 - Caught between life & death
13:42 - 17:24 - Did God make a mistake?
17:24 - 22:20 - Finding goodness in a hell haystack
22:20 - 28:27 - Wrestling with our emotions
28:27 - 36:14 - Living survival guides
36:14 - 37:43 - Going outward with pain
37:43 - 40:22 - How to comfort the hurting
40:22 - 44:51 - Does everything happen for a reason?
44:51 - 45:42 - “I don’t want to be inspiring”
45:42 - 48:21 - We all have invisible wheelchairs
48:21 - 54:32 - The invisible wheelchair of body image
54:32 - 59:44 - Bad AND good things keep happening
59:44 - 1:01:08 - The good-hard life
1:01:08 - 1:05:16 - 40th birthday realizations
1:05:16 - 1:06:18 - One day it will make sense

 

Katherine Wolf Links:
Hope Heals (Book): https://shorturl.at/lVfFR
Treasures in the Dark (Book): https://shorturl.at/3QMsT
Suffer Strong (Book): https://shorturl.at/phpJr
Hope Heals (Non-Profit): https://hopeheals.com/
Mend Coffee (in Atlanta): https://www.mendcoffee.com/

 

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