
Solo Parent Podcast
Being a single parent comes with unique challenges, but you don’t have to navigate them alone. Our podcast is a space where you’ll find encouragement, expert insights, and a community that gets it.
This week we’re discussing what it really means to Heal What You Can’t Erase.
For so many solo parents, pain feels like something to avoid, something that has to be buried, fixed, or outrun. But what if healing doesn’t begin by pushing past the ache, but by stepping directly into it? Whether it’s overthinking to stay in control, using willpower to force peace, or burying shame so deeply we forget it’s there, the pain we carry is not a sign of weakness. It’s often the doorway to wholeness. In this powerful episode, we’re joined by Christopher Cook, a podcast host, leadership coach, and author of Healing What You Can’t Erase, who guides us into a deeper understanding of why true transformation can only begin from the inside out.
Today, we cover three main points:
- Why self-help and willpower can’t heal what was never meant to be carried alone.
- How overthinking, busyness, and even good habits can become armor that protects us from deeper wounds.
- Why grief is not the end of the story…it’s the beginning of peace.
RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
- Healing What You Can’t Erase by Christopher Cook
- Win Today with Christopher Cook – Weekly podcast focused on mental, emotional, and spiritual health
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Show Notes
Guest: Christopher Cook, author, pastor, and leadership coach There are parts of our story we wish we could cut out
There’s a kind of loneliness that creeps in when the house finally quiets. The kids are asleep or at their
You’re bone-tired, mentally scattered, barely holding the emotional thread of the day together. So you reach for your phone…again. Not
Guest: Laurie Lokey, Licensed Professional Counselor and Co-Founder of Resilient Love The moment you stop striving might be the moment
Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is… nothing. When life hurts, we instinctively move. We work. We scroll.
When You’re Drowning in the Everyday You ever have one of those days where you feel like you’re just not
Guest: Christopher Cook, author, pastor, and leadership coach There are parts of our story we wish we could cut out
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