Episode 396 - Liz Hall, "Find Meaning In Suffering"

About this episode

Dr. Liz Hall discusses her experience with cancer and insights from her book on finding meaning in suffering.

Dr. Liz Hall is a psychologist and professor at Biola who, at 45, was diagnosed with stage two breast cancer — and discovered that her training had barely prepared her for it. She joins Michael to talk about her book When the Journey Hurts, co-written with theologians Kelly Kapic and Jason McMartin, and what a decade of research and lived suffering taught her about meaning, faith, and staying human in the hard middle. They talk about why the degree to which something threatens our worldview i...

People in this episode

Host: Michael John Cusick

Guest: Dr. Liz Hall

Topics covered

• meaning in suffering
• faith
• psychology
• cancer
• human experience

Keywords

• suffering
• faith
• psychology
• cancer
• meaning

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Biola

Books & works: When the Journey Hurts

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