S8Ep8: Finding Healing Through Faith: Willow Weston on Collide and Running Toward God in Pain

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This week, hosts Mike Nawrocki and Tricia Goyer welcome author, speaker, and podcast host Willow Weston to discuss her powerful new book, Collide: Running Into Healing When Life Hands You Hurt (Tyndale Momentum, March 2026).

In this honest and hope-filled conversation, Willow shares how true healing begins not by avoiding pain, but by bringing it directly into the presence of Jesus. Drawing from years of ministry, mentoring, and her widely followed Collide Bible Study, she offers practical encouragement for anyone walking through loss, trauma, grief, or spiritual struggle.

Whether you are facing heartbreak, searching for purpose in suffering, or simply longing to experience God more deeply in difficult seasons, this episode offers biblical insight and real-world encouragement.

In Collide, Willow Weston invites readers into a transformative journey of faith and healing, showing how God meets us directly in our wounds and uses even our hardest experiences for redemption and restoration.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• How faith plays a role in emotional and spiritual healing

• Why running toward pain, not away from it, leads to transformation

• How God meets us personally in seasons of grief, trauma, and loss

• Practical encouragement for anyone seeking hope and restoration

• The inspiration behind Willow Weston’s new Christian book, Collide

This conversation is perfect for listeners interested in Christian living, spiritual growth, trauma recovery, grief healing, and deepening their relationship with God.

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Meet Your Hosts

As co-creator of VeggieTales, co-founder of Big Idea Entertainment, and the voice of Larry the Cucumber, Mike Nawrocki has been dedicated to helping parents pass on biblical values to their kids for over three decades. Mike is the offbeat brain behind Silly Songs with Larry, and has lent his screenwriting and directing talents to dozens of VeggieTales episodes, as well as both of the properties’ theatrical releases, Jonah and The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything.

His most recent project, an early-reader book series published by Tyndale House titled The Dead Sea Squirrels, has been adapted into a 13-episode animated series now streaming on Minno, with more books and a season 2 of animation currently in the works. Mike also serves as an assistant professor of film and animation at Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN, and co-hosts the weekly podcast, “The Bible for Kids.”

Tricia Goyer is a USA Today bestselling author of over 100 books, including historical fiction, family favorites, and books for children and teens. She co-hosts The Bible for Kids Podcast, where she gets to talk with authors, musicians, and ministry leaders who are passionate about pointing kids to Jesus.

As a homeschooling mom of ten and wife to John, Tricia knows firsthand the joy (and the chaos!) of discipling kids in real life. She's written more than 500 articles, speaks at homeschool and family conferences across the country, and loves helping parents and grandparents pass along a living faith to the next generation. Her recent releases include Twist of Time, co-written with her son Nathan. Learn more at triciagoyer.com.