What does emotional healing look like after decades of feeling unseen in a marriage?

In this powerful conversation, author Julie Cunningham shares the deeply personal journey behind her book The Orphaned Wife — a story of emotional abandonment, hidden wounds, spiritual awakening, and the long road toward real restoration.

Julie opens up about:

• Growing up adopted and navigating childhood wounds
• Emotional abandonment inside a “good” Christian marriage
• The moment she realized healing wouldn’t save her marriage
• The process of rebuilding her identity in Christ
• Why the church often misses signs of silent suffering
• How her three-book series helps others walking through the same pain
• The difference between surviving… and becoming whole

Whether you’ve experienced emotional abandonment, spiritual discouragement, or simply want to understand how healing really works, this conversation will meet you where you are — and offer hope.

📚 Julie Cunningham’s Books

• The Orphaned Wife
• Ashes on the Altar
• The Kaleidoscope of Butterflies
• Mama Was A Hippie: A Journey to Find True North

The Orphaned Wife Series – Amazon Links

The Orphaned Wife: The story of how one woman survived emotional abandonment in a Christian marriage, and her healing journey toward emotional wholeness (Pub: 2020)

Kindle Edition Link: https://amzn.to/49y0Puv

Paperback Edition Link: https://amzn.to/48d1nnh

Study Guide for The Orphaned Wife

Kindle Edition Link: https://amzn.to/3XKJDdS

Paperback Edition Link: https://amzn.to/4poG4G2

Journal for The Orphaned Wife

Paperback Edition Link: https://amzn.to/43KvEsd

Ashes on the Altar: Insights From a Journey Through the Wilderness (Pub: 2022)

Kindle Edition Link: https://amzn.to/3XbiAIE

Paperback Edition Link: https://amzn.to/4oNJm5U

Study Guide for Ashes on the Altar

Kindle Edition Link: https://amzn.to/48b56kW

Paperback Edition Link: https://amzn.to/486aJRC

A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies: Women Walking in Glory (Pub. 2023)

Kindle Edition Link: https://amzn.to/4o6Oy3x

Paperback Edition Link: https://amzn.to/4ptrGfZ

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This is our first 7 Minute Quest podcast. The word "quest" stirs thoughts about a search for truth or understanding or an adventure. A quest is the kind of story that’s filled with heroes and trusted guides, failures and victories. You may be thinking that seven minutes isn't enough time to flesh out an idea, but sometimes brevity is best.

This Week's Question:
Is coming to faith, becoming a believer in God through Jesus Christ, best defined as a moment in time or more accurately part of a larger process?

When Jesus talks with Nicodemus about being “born again”, having “eternal life” and “that the world might be saved through Him”, what does He mean? Is salvation intended to be a one-time acknowledgement of Christ that covers our sin for all time, assuring us of eternal life, or is there also a broader process that the Lord intends for each of us as a life-long focus?

This Week's Foundational Scripture:
John 3:1-3, 14-17 (ESV)

1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” 3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

( Later in the conversation Jesus tells him:)

14 "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him."

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Have you ever been at a point in your life where you had prayed to God for something important to take place, something to be revealed to you, something that was time-sensitive?

I remember a time when I was in college and like many 20-year-olds I’d hit a wall in my faith and in my understanding of God and how He works. Then an older Christian brother recommended that I take some time to visit the Psalms and suggested a few that he believed would be helpful. He shared with me a powerful image of how I was to drink it in as I read, like using a long straw, and allow the verses to wash over my frustrations and concerns and connect me with the heart of God and His ways.

What happened next would impact the rest of my life.

Foundational Scripture:
Psalm 27:14 (ESV)
Of David.

Wait for the Lord;
be strong, and let your heart take courage;
wait for the Lord!

Community Worship, YouTube Link:
Jordan Sandquist - "Waiting for the Lord" (A Ted Sandquist Song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDFVv9uUa2Y

He is my light, yes the Lord my salvation
With Him as my stronghold whom shall I fear
When evil assails me when I am surrounded
I will find my life in the Lord

There is one thing I will ask of Him and I will seek it forever
Lord my one desire is to dwell within Your household and ever
To behold the beauty of God and to dwell as a son in His courts

Teach me of Your ways, o Lord, and lead me in the path of Your kingdom
Hear me when I cry aloud and answer for You word is my freedom
I believe I shall see the goodness of God in the land of the living

Waiting for the Lord I will be strong and let my heart take courage
I will wait, yay wait for the Lord, I will wait for the Lord

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