Welcome to This Unexpected Life, a podcast designed to equip and encourage parents and caregivers of children with disabilities so they can embrace their journey with hope, faith, and resilience.
With over twenty years of parenting experience, Carrie M Holt is a story-telling companion for caregiving mothers, exploring the hope and healing found in Jesus Christ—one story at a time.
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Carrie M Holt
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education · kids & family · religion & spirituality
This I Call to Mind: Remembering God's Faithfulness in Seasons of Suffering with Angela Mackey
What happens when the life you imagined looks nothing like the life you're living? In this episode of This Unexpected Life, Carrie welcomes author and speaker Angela Mackey as part of a new November series, Suffering Speaks a Common Language. Angela isn’t a special needs mom, but she does share her journey of suffering through two life-threatening ectopic pregnancies, infertility, and the grief of dreams that didn't unfold as she expected. Together, Carrie and Angela explore what it mea...
20 Oct 2026
What To Do When Disability Parenting Feels Overwhelming: Faith-Based Tools to Reduce Stress and Anxiety with Kristin Faith Evans
As we parent children with disabilities and special needs, we are no strangers to anxiety, stress, and constant decision-making. How can we find calm in the middle of the chaos? In this episode of This Unexpected Life, Carrie M. Holt welcomes Kristin Faith Evans to discuss her new 40-day devotional, The Frazzled Parent’s Guide to Less Stress. Drawing from her own journey as a mother of a daughter with multiple disabilities, Kristin shares practical, Christ-centered tools for managing stress, ...
13 Oct 2026
Raising a Daughter with Spina Bifida: Faith, Caregiving, Grief, and Hope After Loss with Lacy Williams
What does it look like to trust God through the unexpected realities of raising a child with complex medical needs—and how do you find hope after losing a child? In this special Spina Bifida Awareness Month episode of The Unexpected Life, Lacy Williams shares the story of her daughter, Autumn, who lived with spina bifida, autism, and additional medical complexities for 17 years before passing away in March 2026. Lacy opens up about the realities of medical caregiving, how she never expe...
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