- 48
- Episodes
- 21
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Resilient Souls
Through real stories of everyday people, Resilient Souls explores the insights that help us face life’s challenges, find comfort and hope, and build resilient souls. For more resources and weekly reflections, visit resilientsouls.com.au
- Publisher
- Stewart Bogle
- Category
- religion & spirituality
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Feb 2024
- Latest episode
- 13 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
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13 Oct 2026
#46 Finding a Way Forward: Trust, Support and the Complexity of Forgiveness (Part 2)
Episode Summary: In Part 1, Rachel Vince shared how childhood sexual abuse impacted her identity, relationships and faith in ways she didn't fully understand for many years. In this second part of our conversation, we explore what happened when Rachel began facing that hidden pain and what helped her find a way forward. Rachel talks openly about the importance of finding people who listened, believed her and stayed alongside her, even when things were messy. She reflects on the role of professional support, the challenges she and her husband Matt faced as they navigated the impacts of trauma on their marriage, and what it meant to learn self-compassion while also taking responsibility for the ways her pain had affected others. We also explore the difficult subject of forgiveness, including why it doesn't mean forgetting, excusing what happened or having to restore a relationship with the person who caused the harm. It's an honest conversation about the difficult process of facing what's happened, the people who help us along the way, and the hope that our past doesn't have to define our future. In this episode, you'll discover: Why feeling heard, believed and accepted matters when someone begins opening up about trauma The importance of finding professional support from people who understand the impacts of abuse How self-compassion and taking responsibility for hurtful behaviour can go hand in hand What Rachel and her husband Matt learned about navigating trauma within their marriage Why forgiveness doesn't mean forgetting, excusing harm or having to restore a relationship with the person who caused it How acknowledging and grieving what was lost became an important part of Rachel's journey Why facing the past doesn't erase what happened, but can open the door to greater freedom and hope ... and much more! Content note: This episode discusses childhood sexual abuse and its long-term effects. It does not contain graphic descriptions, but some listeners may find the subject difficult. If this conversation raises something for you: If you’ve experienced sexual abuse, or this conversation brings up something you’re struggling with, you don’t have to work through it alone. Consider reaching out to someone safe, such as your GP, a counsellor experienced in trauma and sexual abuse, or one of the specialist support services below. In Australia: 1800RESPECT provides free, confidential support 24/7 for people affected by sexual violence. Call 1800 737 732, text 0458 737 732, or access online support through 1800RESPECT. Blue Knot Helpline provides specialist support for adults affected by childhood trauma and abuse. Call 1300 657 380, 9am-5pm AEST/AEDT, 7 days a week. Overseas: Click here (https://www.helpguide.org/find-help) Explore More from Resilient Souls: Resilient Souls Website (https://resilientsouls.com.au) Resilient Souls Podcast (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/podcast) or search ‘Resilient Souls’ wherever you get your podcasts Resilient Souls Blog on Substack (https://resilientsouls.substack.com/) Stewart’s Book (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/stewarts-book) Follow Resilient Souls on: Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/stewart.bogle.resilient.souls/) / Instagram / (https://www.instagram.com/stewart.bogle.resilient.souls/) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stewartbogle/) Get Involved or Reach Out: (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/) Join the Community (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/) Book Stewart to Speak (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/speaking) Support the Work (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/donate) Contact Us (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/contact) Need Help? In Australia (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/get-help) or for Overseas (https://www.helpguide.org/find-help)
16 Sept 2026
#45 The Hidden Impact of Childhood Trauma: Rachel’s Story (Part 1)
Content note: This episode discusses childhood sexual abuse and its long-term effects. It does not contain graphic descriptions, but some listeners may find the subject difficult. Episode Summary: Rachel Vince grew up surrounded by a loving family, a strong church community and people who cared deeply about her. To those around her, she was bright, capable and happy. But beneath all of this was something no one around her could see. As a young child, Rachel had experienced sexual abuse by someone outside her family, but she didn’t yet have the words or understanding to make sense of what had happened. The joy and love in Rachel’s childhood and young adult life were real. But as she grew older, she began to understand that some of the things she had simply seen as part of who she was, including her drive to be the “good girl”, her perfectionism, anxiety and need for control, also made more sense in light of what she had experienced. In this deeply personal conversation, Rachel reflects on what it was like to begin opening the “box” she’d kept closed for so long, and to recognise some of the ways those hidden experiences had affected her marriage, parenting, relationships and faith. This is Part 1 of a conversation about the hidden and long lasting impact childhood trauma can have. But at its heart, it’s also about understanding: how making sense of what we carry can bring compassion, help us feel less alone, and offer hope for what may lie ahead. In this episode, you’ll discover: How childhood trauma can remain hidden, even within a loving and supportive family How, in Rachel’s story, shame, anxiety, perfectionism and a need for control became ways of coping with something she didn’t yet understand Why fragmented memories led Rachel to question her own experience How Rachel began to recognise the ripple effects of hidden trauma in her marriage, parenting and relationships How Rachel wrestled with where God was in her pain, and came to see his heart breaking with hers Why understanding the impacts of trauma helped Rachel reinterpret things she had once seen as evidence that she was “crazy”, broken or failing Rachel’s encouragement to anyone who senses that something they’ve buried may still be affecting their life … and much more. If this conversation raises something for you: If you’ve experienced sexual abuse, or this conversation brings up something you’re struggling with, you don’t have to work through it alone. Consider reaching out to someone safe, such as your GP, a counsellor experienced in trauma and sexual abuse, or one of the specialist support services below. In Australia: 1800RESPECT provides free, confidential support 24/7 for people affected by sexual violence. Call 1800 737 732, text 0458 737 732, or access online support through 1800RESPECT. Blue Knot Helpline provides specialist support for adults affected by childhood trauma and abuse. Call 1300 657 380, 9am-5pm AEST/AEDT, 7 days a week. Overseas: Click here (https://www.helpguide.org/find-help) Explore More from Resilient Souls: Resilient Souls Website (https://resilientsouls.com.au) Resilient Souls Podcast (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/podcast) or search ‘Resilient Souls’ wherever you get your podcasts Resilient Souls Blog on Substack (https://resilientsouls.substack.com/) Stewart’s Book (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/stewarts-book) Follow Resilient Souls on: Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/stewart.bogle.resilient.souls/) / Instagram / (https://www.instagram.com/stewart.bogle.resilient.souls/) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stewartbogle/) Get Involved or Reach Out: (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/) Join the Community (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/) Book Stewart to Speak (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/speaking) Support the Work (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/donate) Contact Us (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/contact) Need Help? In Australia (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/get-help) or for Overseas (https://www.helpguide.org/find-help)
12 Aug 2026
#44 There Is No ‘Back to Normal’: Ashley Biddick on Rebuilding and the Long Road Forward
Three years after her husband Jake died, Ashley Biddick returns to Resilient Souls as a regular contributor, drawing on both her own experience of loss and insights from her professional work as she explores what rebuilding can look like when life has changed. The focus is on what life looks like beyond the first raw days and weeks, into the months and years that follow when life still hasn’t gone 'back to normal'. Ashley explores the ongoing physical effects of trauma, changed capacity and identity, and some of the secondary losses that can follow a life-changing loss. She talks about grief and joy coexisting, noticing small “glimmers” of hope, finding people who “speak the language of loss”, and sometimes taking the next step before you feel ready: doing it heartbroken, doing it lonely, doing it scared. Ashley and Stewart also return to the question of faith and the wrestle with God when suffering doesn’t make sense. There are no neat answers, just a grounded conversation about living with what cannot be changed while making room for what might still be possible. In this episode, you’ll discover: Why there may be no simple “back to normal” after life changing loss, and what rebuilding can look like instead How grief and trauma can continue to affect your body, energy and capacity long after the initial crisis Why major loss can impact your sense of identity, and how to begin making peace with the person you are becoming How grief and joy can coexist, and why small “glimmers” of beauty and hope can matter What it can mean to “do it heartbroken, do it lonely, do it scared” without simply telling yourself to toughen up How friends, community and faith can help when there are no easy answers and the road forward still feels uncertain … and much more. Explore More from Resilient Souls: Resilient Souls Website (https://resilientsouls.com.au) Resilient Souls Podcast (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/podcast) or search ‘Resilient Souls’ wherever you get your podcasts Resilient Souls Blog on Substack (https://resilientsouls.substack.com/) Stewart’s Book (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/stewarts-book) Follow Resilient Souls on: (https://www.facebook.com/stewart.bogle.resilient.souls/)Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/stewart.bogle.resilient.souls/) / Instagram / (https://www.instagram.com/stewart.bogle.resilient.souls/) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stewartbogle/) Get Involved or Reach Out: (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/) Join the Community (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/) Book Stewart to Speak (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/speaking) Support the Work (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/donate) Contact Us (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/contact) Need Help? In Australia (https://www.resilientsouls.com.au/get-help) or for Overseas (https://www.helpguide.org/find-help)
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