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The GoodHard Story Podcast

Katherine Wolf

Religion & Spirituality

Frequency: 1 episode/18d. Total Eps: 109

The good story and the hard story can be the same story. This is where we’re sharing the proof. Feeling isolated by your hurt and heartbreak? Then this place is for you. Join Katherine Wolf and her most trusted friends as they honor the hardest parts of life while making space for the hope and humor in it all. Your weekly pep talk from The GoodHard Story Podcast will load you up with fresh inspiration, practical takeaways, and the soul-deep sense that you are not alone in the story you’ve been given.

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#47
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#43
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04/09/2025
#57
🇺🇸 USA - christianity
03/09/2025
#98

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Episode 67: Getting Honest About Our Doubts with Andy Squyres

Thursday, September 5, 2024 • Duration 53:11

“Our theories about God and the way he works get confronted with the reality of our lives.”

This is the most refreshing conversation I’ve had in a long time, friends, because I got to talk about some kind of taboo topics without an ounce of the baggage. Joining me this week is Andy Squyres, a brilliantly one-of-a-kind songwriter who never, ever shies away from graciously grappling with the tough stuff. I’ve received so much from his songs and essays, and I received even more from speaking with him about all my favorite things—you know, like suffering, sorrow, and doubt. Normal!

If you join me on this episode of the GoodHard Story Podcast, here’s what you’ll take away:

Comfort for the days that God feels absent
Hope for a new kind of faith after deconstructing
Where to fit doubt into your friendship with Jesus
What to do when God doesn’t come through for you
An alternative response to political anxiety

Looking for a safe place to work through some doubts about who God is and whether he’s good? Then this episode is for you. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or at hopeheals.com/podcast.

Show Notes

Andy Squyres on Instagram: @andysquyres

“Casimir Pulaski Day” by Sufjan Stevens

The Life We’re Looking For by Andy Crouch

“Backwards Kingdom” by Sam McCabe ft. Andy Squyres

“Why It Matters” by Sara Groves

The Cellist of Sarajevo

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Episode 66: Katherine’s Top Takeaways: One Year of Wisdom in 20 Minutes (Solo Episode)

Thursday, May 23, 2024 • Duration 20:26

Before the GoodHard Story Podcast takes a short summer break, Katherine is recapping her favorite moments from Season 3. She’s distilling over 30 hours of conversations and reflections into a potent 20-minute dose of hope!

What you’ll take away from this conversation…

Start a community from scratch
Reframing our emotions as a strength instead of a weakness
Becoming better—instead of bitter—because of our losses

As we prepare for the next season of the podcast, we need to hear what YOU want to hear! Let us know what hurt you’re holding today so that we can start some helpful, healing conversations between Katherine and her most trusted teachers.

If you want to help us create future episodes, email us at resources@hopeheals.com or DM us on Instagram (@hopeheals) with questions you’d like answered or topics you want covered.

Show Notes:

Donate to Hope Heals: hopeheals.com/give

Favorite Season 3 Moments:

Episode 37: Ask Amy Julia

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-37-ask-amy-julia

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ueGdkR3BPASl10PY319Gx?si=e1356478bdc240f7

“Experiencing disability or being in proximity to disability is a way to embrace our own humanity. It can also call us into love, care, and mutual receiving.”

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Episode 39: Putting It Into Practice with Caroline Young

Episode 57: Being Failed by a “Checklist Life” with Russell Moore

Thursday, March 21, 2024 • Duration 37:58

Today Katherine is trying her best to keep her cool as she interviews her longtime hero Dr. Russell Moore, the editor in chief of Christianity Today. You don’t want to miss Dr. Moore’s fresh insights on some of our favorite themes, like dealing with unmet expectations and anticipating God’s future presence and provision in our stories.

If you’re looking for nuanced approaches to some weighty issues in Christian culture and in your personal relationship with God, this episode is for you.

What We’ll Cover:

Why being failed by our idols can actually be a grace
The virtues we can cultivate when we find ourselves in “the wilderness” of life
How to maintain relationships with when your ideologies and opinions don’t align
Finding security within mystery

Listen wherever you get your podcasts or at hopeheals.com/podcast.

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Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America by Russell Moore: https://a.co/d/htjNDnm

“A Christian is one who points at Christ and says, ‘I can't prove a thing, but there's something about his eyes and his voice. There's something about the way he carries his head, his hands, the way he carries his cross—the way he carries me.’” - Frederick Buechner

The Russell Moore Podcast: https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/podcasts/russell-moore-show/

Christianity Today: https://www.christianitytoday.com

Scriptures referenced in this episode:

Hebrews 6:19

Romans 5:3-5

Episode 56: How to Stop Waiting for Your Happy Ending: Celebration 101 with Katherine Wolf

Thursday, March 14, 2024 • Duration 30:37

Be honest. Deep down, are you waiting for a happy ending before you feel permission to celebrate your life? In this solo episode, Katherine is sharing how she stopped waiting for closure and began practicing the spiritual discipline of “joyful rebellion” against fear and despair.

We want to share something that could change everything for you: It’s possible to celebrate the lives we *actually* have, rather than the lives we wish we had.

Because when we celebrate our here-and-now lives, we are taking radical ownership of the stories we’ve been given. We’re thanking God for another day in the land of the living. We’re acknowledging that He is with us in the messy middle.

Today on the podcast we’re talking…

What it looks like to celebrate and mourn at the same time
Katherine’s personal and practical recommendations for hosting your own “brokenness brunch” (which includes a very enthusiastic sidebar on frittatas!)
The life-changing magic of surrounding ourselves with a diversity of hard stories
Why we should NEVER “save the good stuff” for special occasions
How to take radical ownership of the story you’ve been given

If the hope of a happy ending is getting in the way of your healing, this episode is for YOU!

Treasures in the Dark: 90 Reflections on Finding Bright Hope Hidden in the Hurting by Katherine Wolf: https://hopeheals.com/treasures

Adam Young’s research on the healing power of telling your story: https://adamyoungcounseling.com/2019/12/10/why-engaging-your-story-heals-your-brain/

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Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-hard-story-podcast/id1496882479

Epiode 55: Hard-Fought Contentment: Integrating Our Losses into Wholeness with Jerry Sittser

Thursday, March 7, 2024 • Duration 37:38

After Katherine’s stroke nearly 16 years ago, she was desperate for a “survival guide”—some voice to offer real hope in the aftermath of such disorienting loss.

Jerry Sittser, the author of A Grace Disguised, was one of the few trustworthy resources she found after searching far and wide. Dr. Sittser became a bona fide member of the young suffering club when he lost his wife, mother, and young daughter in a catastrophic car accident. The lowest point in his life has developed an astoundingly robust faith and authentic joy.

Sounds like someone we could all learn from, doesn’t he?

What we’ll cover…

The possibility that grief could become integrated into healthier, more whole versions of ourselves
Allowing our responses to loss to become what defines us, rather than the loss itself defining us
Discovering new capacities to develop hard-fought contentment after losing the good things in our lives
Practical ways to offer comfort to the people in our lives who are suffering

If your loss is swallowing you whole today and you’re in desperate need of a survival guide, this episode is for you.

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Episode 54: Normalizing Low-Grade Sorrow: How to Deal with Pain that Lingers

Thursday, February 29, 2024 • Duration 30:53

Let’s acknowledge an uncomfortable reality: No matter how much healing we receive, a low-grade sadness will remain.

In this vulnerable episode, Kathering shares how surprised she was to realize that having a second baby after her stroke couldn’t replace the months and years of motherhood she lost with her first baby. A low-grade sorrow hummed deep in her heart, and she didn’t know what to do with it.

This side of heaven, all the redemption and restoration in the world might not erase our pain completely. A dull ache will always remain. Instead of trying to shake the low-grade sorrow, we can choose to learn from it instead. Today, Kathrine’s sharing what lessons she took away.

What we’ll cover:

Examining the true source of our sorrows
Seeing our pain as proof that we’re made for wholeness
Developing the habit of calibrating the core of our hope daily

If you’re looking for language to wrap around that lingering ache in your heart today, this episode is for you.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts or at hopeheals.com/podcast.

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⁠⁠Sign up for the Hope Note⁠⁠, our twice-a-month digest of only the good stuff, like reflections from Katherine and a curated digest of the Internet’s most redemptive content: ⁠⁠⁠https://hopeheals.com/hopenote⁠⁠⁠

Get to know us:

⁠⁠Hope Heals⁠⁠: ⁠⁠⁠https://hopeheals.com/⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠Hope Heals Camp⁠⁠: ⁠⁠⁠https://hopeheals.com/camp⁠⁠⁠

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Episode 53: Redeeming Anxiety: How the Fear of Loss Can Be An Opportunity for Gain with Curtis Chang

Thursday, February 22, 2024 • Duration 37:20

What if some of our problems were never meant to be solved or eliminated? What if we began reframing some problems as opportunities for knowing Jesus more?

In this episode, author and former pastor Curtis Chang joins Katherine to share how his lifelong experience of anxiety has led him to an entirely new understanding of loss, prayer, surrender, and even parenting.

If anxiety has felt like a barrier to spiritual growth rather than an invitation into deeper relationship with God, then this episode is for you.

What We’ll Cover: -How we know that Jesus experienced anxiety, and why that’s good news for those of us dealing with anxiety today -Biblically supported and science-backed ways to cope with our fear of loss -How to thoughtfully parent the most anxious generation in history - 3 practices that can increase our capacity to hold loss Want a little hope in your inbox? ⁠⁠Sign up for the Hope Note⁠⁠, our twice-a-month digest of only the good stuff, like reflections from Katherine and a curated digest of the Internet’s most redemptive content: ⁠⁠https://hopeheals.com/hopenote⁠⁠ Get to know us: ⁠⁠Hope Heals⁠⁠: ⁠⁠https://hopeheals.com/⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Hope Heals Camp⁠⁠: ⁠⁠https://hopeheals.com/camp⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Mend Coffee⁠⁠: ⁠⁠https://www.mendcoffee.org/⁠⁠ Instagram⁠: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/hopeheals/⁠

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