Fortitude
Everyone has a story of Fortitude! When we tell our stories of pain in adversity - stories of courage, redemption and hope - we give others permission to speak up and get the help they need. Each episode will give the listener a look inside what overcoming adversity looks like no matter what life throws at you. Each story is uniquely different - stories of alcoholism/addiction, infidelity, rape, abuse, loss of a child/children, cancer, rare disease, tragic accidents...etc.! We are in this life together to support one another and build community around hope and redemption. I am your host, Heather Kittelson, and I am so excited to have you here as part of the Fortitude community!
Fortitude
Episode 69: The Man Who Choose to Stay: With Amos Kittelson
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Our newest episode is live, and this one is deeply personal.
So many of you have heard my story.
My healing.
My journey.
My voice.
Today, you get to hear from the man who lived it with me.
Amos steps into the guest seat for a raw and honest conversation about marriage, healing, addiction, faith, leadership, and what it looks like to stay when life gets hard.
Behind so much of my story is the man who chose to stay and still chooses to stay.
A man who kept showing up.
A man who kept leading.
A man who held steady when life felt anything but.
In this episode, we talk about the things people usually carry in silence.
What it feels like to walk into a house and know within a couple syllables that the night is going to be hard.
What it means to love without enabling.
What happens when pain changes the whole atmosphere of a home.
And what healing starts to look like when two people are willing to keep growing, keep telling the truth, and keep coming back to the table.
Amos shares some of the deepest wisdom he has carried in our home for years:
Proximity shapes perspective.
Perspective shapes decisions.
Decisions shape your life.
He also says something that made me laugh and then made me think:
“Screw the series.”
Because sometimes the very thing keeping us stuck is not some giant crisis.
It is the small distraction, the avoidance, the numbing, the thing we keep turning to instead of facing what really needs healing.
This episode is tender, real, and full of the kind of truth people do not always say out loud.
It is for the ones who have loved someone through pain.
The ones who stayed strong because they had to.
The ones who kept praying when nothing made sense.
The ones who never really got asked how they were doing.
I am really honored to share Amos with all of you.
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