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In The Seams
by David Heflin
In The Seams is a podcast inviting people with chronic pain and illness to consider how God is "in the seams" of our brokenness and how he mends us through our suffering. The podcast is hosted by Broken and Mended, a nonprofit existing to connect hurting people to Jesus and each other.
Episodes
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Why Chronic Pain Feels Heavier in Africa - and What It Teaches Us
In this episode, Broken and Mended founder and executive director David Heflin gives an update on the podcast and ministry, highlighting the upcoming conference on Oct. 10th. David shares his observations about chronic pain in Africa after his recent trip to Kenya and Tanzania and makes spiritual...
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When Normal Disappears: Dan Finch's Story of Faith
Dan Finch shares his inspiring journey through life-threatening illnesses, faith, and perseverance. His story highlights how leaning into faith during life's most challenging moments can foster resilience and hope, offering encouragement to those walking their own difficult paths. Main Topics...
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A Conversation with Chronic Illness Author Mandy Farmer
In this episode, we welcome Mandy Farmer back to the show to share her remarkable journey through grief, chronic illness, and finding hope in God's grace. Mandy discusses her new devotional book, "Dissonant Chords, Joyful Harmony," and offers insights on lament, the power of music, and authentic...
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The Invisible Struggles of Chronic Illness: A Conversation with Sarah Reid
In this episode, Sarah Reid shares her inspiring story of living with chronic illnesses like POTS, ME-CFS, and fibromyalgia from a young age. We explore how her faith and community support help her navigate daily challenges, and she offers encouragement for others facing invisible health…
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Christians with Chronic Illnesses with L.A. Sprague
In this episode, David Heflin welcomes LA Sprague, the founder of "Christians with Chronic Illnesses," to discuss her inspiring journey with POTS, her faith, and her new podcast aimed at encouraging believers facing health challenges. They explore the impact of chronic illness on dreams, faith…
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Faith and Resilience: A Family's Journey Through Childhood Cancer with Tveen Verano
Tveen Verano shares her family's emotional journey from a joyful, ordinary life to the shock of a childhood cancer diagnosis. Her story highlights the power of faith, community, and the importance of spiritual resilience amid unimaginable hardships. Main Topics Covered: The emotional impact of...
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A Conversation With Miles Washburn About Guillain-Barre Syndrome
In this episode, Miles Washburn shares his inspiring story of battling Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), a rare and severe autoimmune disorder, and how, through this experience, God inspired a mission to support fellow patients. Join us for a heartfelt conversation about resilience, faith, and…
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Biofeedback and Hope with Restore of Ada Founder, Dana Hargus
From www.restoreofada.com: Dana Hargus, M.Ed., LPC Founder Dana Hargus is the Founder of Restore of Ada. She was raised in the Ada area and holds a bachelor's degree in education and special education, and a master's degree in school counseling. After successfully working with students with...
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Broken and Mended Conference Recap with Andres Ruiz
Broken and Mended Vice President, Andres Ruiz joins David Heflin to recap the "Broken Apart, Mended Together" conference featuring Dave Furman, Aren and Trina Bahadourian, Shannon Cramer, and Vaneetha Risner. Before debriefing each of the sessions, David talks with Andres about his chronic…
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Singing Through the Fire: A Conversation with Author Lara Silverman
In this episode, David interviews Lara Silverman, the author of the newly released memoir, Singing Through the Fire. Lara was a high-power attorney just entering the best and most exciting time of her life when she was struck with severe vertigo, nausea, and pain. This mysterious illness…
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My Story With Ankylosing Spondylitis
In this episode, David shares his personal story, starting with injuries to both hips and culminating in diagnoses of Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and Crohn's disease. David shares how disorientation marked the first few years, but with God's help, he eventually made his way to acceptance and...
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Interview with Glenn Newton About Trigeminal Neuralgia
Broken and Mended board member and fundraising consultant, Glenn Newton, talks about his long battle with severe back pain. Not many years after finding relief through a successful back surgery, Glenn was faced with an even more painful disease called Trigeminal Neuralgia. Glenn shares how it...
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God Is With Us
In this episode, Broken and Mended Executive Director, David Heflin, shares four ways from Scripture that Jesus identifies with sinners to fulfill his promise to be with us. Even on the days we suffer the most, Jesus is with us. Sometimes our experience may confirm this, and sometimes that...
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Conversation With Lauren Watt
Lauren Watt has dealt with devastating chronic illnesses and pain since her early teenage years. After experiencing a massive disruption in her life, she graduated from high school at the age of 23. Lauren still struggles with some chronic conditions, but her life is greatly improved. She has…
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Interview with Rachel Lundy (Cranberry Tea Time)
Rachel Lundy has lived with various chronic medical conditions--all under the umbrella term, dysautonomia--since she was a teenager, robbing her of a normal teenage life and a promising athletic career as a swimmer. Rachel began her website and blog in 2007. Today, it is a hopeful collection of...
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Courage For Resistance In Constant Change
Dr. Timothy Gunnells, professor, preacher, and president of Broken and Mended Incorporated, shares from his struggles with the changes and stresses brought on by chronic illness in his Diamonds Conference 2025 talk. Diamond's Conference all-access pass to the 2025 Diamonds Conference and other…
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Interview With Nate Brooks
Professor, counselor, and author Nate Brooks shares about his new book, Disrupted Journey: Walking With Your Loved One Through Chronic Pain and Illness.. Nate shares what he has discovered on his journey in supporting his wife, Kate, through her chronic health conditions. We cover the importance…
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Finding Joy Through Courage -- Diamonds Conference 2025
This is the talk David gave for the Diamonds Conference on 1/24/25. How do you have joy in the midst of pain? Is happiness the same thing as biblical joy? How has the prosperity gospel harmed our ability to experience joy? How can Tolkien's vision of fellowship help us find courage and experience...
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In The Seams 2024 Recap
In our final episode of 2024, we review the interviews and themes from all the episodes of 2024. Some of the dominant themes that emerge throughout all the conversations: embracing weakness as knowing the power of God, the overlap between chronic illness and mental illness, the need for the…
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Conversation with Mandy Dawson Farmer
Mandy comes on In The Seams and shares her story of battling chronic pain for the past 13 years and how God has used her as an author to help others on this journey. Her children's book Soft Hugs For Mommy and her upcoming devotional book take unique approaches to help parents talk to their...
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Conversation with Amber Ginter
Amber has a multi-faceted ministry to help people with their mental health struggles as well as people living with chronic health conditions. Her website is here. Check out her resources and dance ministry (Light in the Darkness). In this conversation Amber shares her own painful struggle with...
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Interview With Remain Founders Aren and Trina Bahadourian
Aren and Trina talk with us about their struggle with chronic Lyme disease and the loss of their son, Ori, after a life-limiting diagnosis. Remainwithus.org Podcast: Remain | Podcast on Spotify Podcast (Honey and Gold): Honey & Gold (Vol 1-3) | Podcast on Spotify Ministry referenced in the...
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Is God Punishing Me? A Conversation With Shannon Cramer
Author and speaker Shannon Cramer shares about her journey with chronic illness (Narcolepsy and POTS), and why many chronic illness sufferers struggle with the question, "Is God Punishing Me?" Shannon's website. Shannon's book: How To Keep Believing When You're Suffering Host: David Heflin...
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A Conversation About Depression With Dr. Terry Powell
Terry shares his journey from childhood depression to developing an impactful ministry to those who struggle with depression. Depression occurs at a higher rate amongst those with chronic illness and pain than the general population It is why we continue to speak out about mental health issues....
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Disease Is Not Your Identity (Diamonds 2024)
Dr. Timothy Gunnells shares his own experience with chronic pain in a vulnerable and gentle way. He teaches us that weakness is to be embraced as a way of experiencing the power of Christ (2 Cor. 12:9). This episode contains the Q&A that followed Tim's presentation, hosted by Sara Willoughby,...
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Embracing a Different Future (Diamonds 2024)
David Heflin's presentation for the 2024 Diamonds Conference. Here's the link for the all-access pass: Diamonds 2024: Journeying Tickets, Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 12:00 PM | Eventbrite
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Chronic Illness and Mental Health -- A conversation with author Pierce Taylor Hibbs
Pierce Taylor Hibbs is the author of over twenty books and other works. Pierce has a unique perspective on anxiety and why getting rid of whatever ails you may not be the solution you need. How can God walk with us through our mental and physical condition? David and Pierce explore these…
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Chronic Illness and the Loss of Dreams: A Conversation with Bethany Honaker
Chronic health conditions are often more than just annoyance. They can alter the course of your entire life. How do you pick up the pieces of shattered dreams and meaningfully move forward. In this episode, Bethany Honaker acknowledges the real losses she has experienced along the way and the...
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Men and The Stigma of Chronic Pain
Timothy Gunnells and David Heflin co-host this episode on the specific struggle of men and chronic pain. Why are men so less likely than women to talk about it? Why do they avoid doctors or connecting with other men who have similar struggles? And how can we change the dangerous downward spiral…
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Interview with Sara Willoughby, Founder of Diamonds Conference
Sara, 22, has struggled with chronic illness since she was 14, but she has used this hardship to reach thousands for God's glory through her book "He's Making Diamonds" and the twice annual Diamonds Conference, an online conference featuring speakers from chronic illness ministries. In this...
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Grief and Chronic Illness
In this episode, David talks about the additional struggles that chronic illness heaps upon us while we still have to go through the usual griefs of life like losing a loved one, relationship struggles, and financial hardship. David talks about three resources we have from our Christian faith…
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Teenage Years And Chronic Illness
We welcome Micah Heflin (my son) and Katum Redfearn on this episode of In The Seams, a junior and senior in high school respectively. They both struggle with significant chronic illness and pain. We discuss how chronic illness changes the lives of teenagers, how their social relationships are...
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How Chronic Illness Impacts Our Spouse: A Conversation With Two Husbands
In this episode, I interview Jeremy Harrison and Jeremy Wright, two faithful Christians and ministers, who have wives living with chronic illness. Both Jeremys open up about their personal struggles with faith and purpose in their loved one's pain and their grief on their behalf. This one is...
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Chronic Pain, Career, and Family Life: A Conversation with Timothy Gunnells
Professor and minister Timothy Gunnells shares his journey with chronic pain and its impact on his family life and career and how his faith has sustained him through his worse days into some brighter days. Tim shares his perspective on how we can stay thankful through even the painful days.
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Surgery, Chronic Conditions, and The Christian Mindset
Reflections from David Heflin on the eve of surgery concerning what the Christian attitude should be toward medical care and expensive interventions in the midst of a land where we take these sort of things for granted. David reflects on our approach to healthcare as a whole, compassionate...
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Conversation With Jessye Wilden
Trigger Warning: This episode deals with a real-life story of homicide and suicide. If you have experienced trauma in you own life, please proceed with caution. Jessye Wilden, author of the upcoming book We Wrote Your Name In Color, joined us to share the story of when her brother-in-law killed…
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How Chronic Illness Makes Us Even More Useful to God
Chronic illness robs people of so much they enjoy doing, but it does it mean we have less value as servants of God? In this episode, David Heflin explores this question through Paul's metaphor of "jars of clay" in 2 Cor. 4. A paradox of the gospel is that the weaker we are the more God's...
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Conversation with Esther Smith: The Mental and Emotional Battle of Chronic Illness
Esther Smith has a book being released on 6/22/22 called A Still and Quiet Mind: Twelve Strategies for Changing Unwanted Thoughts. While the book addresses a general Christian audience, the issue of chronic illness' impact on unwanted thoughts is addressed through Esther's own experience with...
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Interview With Tara Cole: Parenting and Career with Chronic Illness
What happens when your life is going great and chronic illness shows up to crash the party? Tara Cole and I talk about it and more. "God does a lot with our little." Tara's website is https://taralcole.com/. You can subscribe to Tara's newsletter and receive a free e-book here:...
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Conversation With Emily Maurits
Emily is a believer from Sydney, Australia, who has walked with her mother and sister through their chronic illnesses. Emily's journey inspired her to start a website dedicated to ministering to those who are watching their loved ones suffer and offers specific encouragement to their experience....
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Conversation With Nora Ellis
Nora Ellis is Broken and Mended's volunteer professional editor. She has helped the ministry in numerous ways, and she has her own journey with chronic illness. In this episode David and Nora discuss how God places key people in our lives and how he works through the Scripture to point our way...
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Spiritual Warfare and Chronic Illness
Are we under spiritual attack when we suffer chronic illness or pain? If so, how do we fight back? Is my chronic illness by spiritual problem? In this episode we tackle questions like these from a biblical, and we hope, well reasoned perspective.
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Introduction: Story and Mission
This episode introduces the ministry of Broken and Mended and the podcast "In the Seams." Founder and President, David Heflin, shares his story and struggle with chronic pain and illness and how it led to the founding of Broken and Mended, a nonprofit ministering to those with chronic pain and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
In The Seams is a podcast inviting people with chronic pain and illness to consider how God is "in the seams" of our brokenness and how he mends us through our suffering. The podcast is hosted by Broken and Mended, a nonprofit existing to connect hurting people to Jesus and each other.
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In The Seams is a podcast inviting people with chronic pain and illness to consider how God is "in the seams" of our brokenness and how he mends us through our suffering. The podcast is hosted by Broken and Mended, a nonprofit existing to connect hurting people to Jesus and each other.
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