What if the ache within us is not something to push through alone, but an invitation toward healing? Stasi welcomes her son, counselor Sam Eldredge, for a tender conversation about loneliness, vulnerability, relationships, and the courage to face our stories honestly. Wherever we feel stuck or alone, Jesus is near—gently inviting us to open our hearts, receive the care we need, and follow him into freedom, restoration, and more life than we imagined possible.

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SHOW NOTES:

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VERSES:

Revelation 1:18 (NIV) – I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.

Genesis 2:18 (NIV) – The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

Proverbs 27:17 (NIV) – As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

Isaiah 61:1 (NIV) – The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.

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SAM ELDREDGE

Website: https://www.nobleworkshops.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nobleworkshops

SAM’S BIO

Sam Eldredge has spent his career in the space where psychology and faith meet. Trained in the modalities that form the backbone of Noble's work such as Internal Family Systems, experiential therapy, somatic practice, attachment theory, and EMDR-informed movement, he has spent over two decades watching what happens when people are given the right conditions to do the work they have been carrying.

Noble Workshops grew out of that watching.

Sam grew up immersed in the world of the heart. His formation was shaped deeply by the work of Wild at Heart, an organization that has spent decades helping people recover their inner lives and understand the story they are living. That foundation shaped his understanding of what people are actually hungering for: genuine movement, not just information. The freedom that comes when something long stuck finally begins to shift.

Noble was Sam's response to a gap he kept seeing: people who had done meaningful work, who had language for their pain and faith in the possibility of change, and who still couldn't find a structure that allowed that change to actually take root. Weekly therapy sessions, however skilled the guide, have limits. Immersion changes what is possible.

He founded Noble to offer something different. A week held with clinical rigor and genuine care, set apart from ordinary life, where the work can finally build on itself rather than reset on longer timelines.

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Painting: The Harrowing of Hades

AndSons Podcast Archives: https://wildatheart.org/podcasts/and-sons

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Continuing their listener Q&A conversation, John and Stasi respond to questions on topics such as discernment, spiritual warfare, and what it means to mature in our walk with Jesus and caring for our souls in a demanding world. With honesty, and wisdom, they explore how Jesus meets us in the realities of everyday life—inviting us beyond fear, pressure, and striving into greater freedom, maturity, and intimacy with Him. Wherever you find yourself today, may this conversation awaken fresh hope and draw you further into the presence, Love, and Hope of Jesus.

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If you haven’t listened to Part 1 — E127 | Parenting Continues: Loving Your Adult Children — you can do so here: https://youtu.be/FIH6S3J3m9w

VERSES:

1 John 2:12–14 (NIV) – I am writing to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name. I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning.

I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, dear children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Matthew 7:16 (NIV) – By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

James 4:7 (NIV) – Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Genesis 1:1–3 (NIV) – In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Colossians 1:13–14 (NIV) – For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

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RESOURCES

Love and War: Find Your Way to Something Beautiful in Your Marriage by John & Stasi Eldredge https://wahe.art/4sfsE0N

Experience Jesus. Really: Finding Refuge, Strength, and Wonder through Everyday Encounters with God by John Eldredge https://amzn.to/4jEwBZ7

Explore the Pause App – Includes the One Minute Pause, 30 Days to Resilience, the Experience Jesus 20-day program, and the Evening Review series. https://www.pauseapp.com/

The Daily Prayer from Wild at Heart – Also available within the Pause App or on the Wild at Heart App. https://wahe.art/4e1NSIg

Lectio 365: https://wahe.art/3Ckq7xG

Pray As You Go: https://pray-as-you-go.org

Ruling Your Kingdom Series – Podcast Series from Wild at Heart: https://wahe.art/4vdea3f

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What does mature love look like as our children grow up, grow away, and build lives of their own? In this honest and tender conversation, John and Stasi Eldredge explore the grief, freedom, forgiveness, and trust woven into parenting adult children. Together they invite us to release control, entrust our hearts to Jesus, and discover the love that keeps the doors open. Wherever this conversation finds us, may we find fresh grace to love with open hands and trust everything, and everyone, to Jesus.

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