Healing After Tragedy: Letting Go of a 40-Year Burden

In this deeply moving episode, Scott shares the story of losing his father in a tragic car accident when he was just a young boy, only days after a disagreement that would haunt him for decades.

For more than 40 years, Scott carried a silent and devastating belief: that he may have somehow caused his father’s death. Wrestling with guilt, unanswered questions, and the fear that his father had taken his own life, Scott lived under the weight of uncertainty and unresolved grief.

Everything changed when one of his father’s close friends visited him decades later and shared the true details surrounding his father’s passing, bringing clarity, healing, and freedom from a burden he had carried since childhood.

This episode explores grief, childhood guilt, the stories we hear in our mind, and the powerful healing that can come when truth finally surfaces. It’s a conversation about forgiveness, perspective, and the long journey toward peace.

If you’ve ever carried unresolved pain or blamed yourself for something beyond your control, this episode will speak directly to your heart.

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Facing Fear is a new podcast that provides a space for people to share a fear or fears they have faced in their lives. We all face varying degrees of fear in order to grow and become someone better. In his years of being a therapist, Ben H. Smith has met many people who have experienced fear. It’s a vital part of life and hopefully as we go through this journey, you’ll understand a little more about the fear in your life. Each person who joins this podcast has a powerful story of courage and has faced and overcome fear in their lives. 

As you listen to the stories shared, a stirring may occur in you that will invite you to face your own fears and make some difficult decisions about your own life. An adapted version of the Serenity Prayer offers perspective: “God grant the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, courage to change the one I can, and wisdom to know it’s me.”

“I must not fear

Fear is the mind-killer

Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration

I will face my fear

I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone passed

I will turn the inner eye to see its path

Where the fear has gone

There will be nothing

I will remain."

--Frank Herbert, Dune

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