Silent Goodbyes: Understanding and Overcoming Friendship Loss | Ep. 36

Juggling Life, Finding Balance Podcast with Vivian Cumins

Have you ever experienced the heartbreak of a friendship falling apart? Author Elizabeth Laing Thompson sits down with Vivian for a raw, heartfelt conversation about navigating broken friendships and finding healing through faith. Vivian shares her own story of losing friends after rededicating her life to Christ, as Elizabeth opens up about friendships that blindsided her and the challenging journey to forgiveness. Walking through the complex emotions of friend breakups, they unpack the process of letting go and discovering hope when relationships drift apart. From processing hurt feelings to finding freedom in forgiveness, this conversation provides a message of hope and healing.

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Elizabeth Laing Thompson is a speaker, novelist, and the author of many inspirational books for women and teens, including When a Friendship Falls Apart – Finding God’s Path for Healing, Forgiveness, and (Maybe) Help Letting Go, All the Feels, All the Feels for Teens, and the When God Says series. She writes to help others find hope when they're waiting, help when they're hurting, and humor in holiness. Her work has appeared in numerous outlets including Proverbs 31, Power for Living, Focus on the Family Magazine, and Brio Magazine.

After a long struggle with infertility, Elizabeth and her husband, Kevin, became the always exhausted but grateful parents of four children, three of whom are now teenagers. When she's not inhaling Starbucks mochas and plotting her next book, Elizabeth works from home as an editor and church volunteer (that's code for "pastor's wife"), and as a snack maker, couch snuggler, laundry slayer, floor mopper, not-so-gourmet chef, and interpreter-slash-counselor of teenage feelings. She prays the lessons she is learning, trying to wrestle Christ into the chaos of daily life, giving others hope, practical help, and a lot of good laughs.

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POWERFUL QUOTE FROM ELIZABETH

"Friendship is still out there to be had. You are worth loving and there are amazing women out there who, given the opportunity, would love to love you in return.” - Elizabeth Laing Thompson

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