039. All The Feels with Elizabeth Laing Thompson

<p>The one where I sit down with author <a href="http://www.lizzylife.com/" target="_blank">Elizabeth Laing Thompson</a>!</p>

<p>Elizabeth Laing Thompson writes at LizzyLife.com about clinging to Christ through the chaos of daily life. As a minister, speaker, and novelist, she is always seeking humor in holiness and hope in heartache. Her new books, When God Says "Wait" and When God Says, "Go," are now available from Barbour Publishing (Shiloh Run Press). Elizabeth lives in North Carolina with her husband and children, and they were totally worth the wait.<br />

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When God Says "Wait" is Elizabeth's first book through a traditional press, although she has previously published through independent presses. Some of her other books include a young adult novel, The Thirteenth Summer, and a book for mothers of preschoolers, The Tender Years: Parenting Preschoolers (coauthored with her mother, Geri Laing). Elizabeth's essays and poetry have appeared in The Huffington Post, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Power for Living, Mamalode, Coffee + Crumbs, and BonBon Break.<br />

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Elizabeth married her college sweetheart, Kevin Thompson, after spending several years swooning over him from the passenger seat of his Dodge Avenger on the drive to church every Sunday. Together the newlyweds went to work serving campus ministries in North Carolina and Georgia. After a long struggle with infertility, Kevin and Elizabeth became the always exhausted but totally grateful parents of one large dog and four loud kids. Now after 19 years of marriage, they still like each other even though Elizabeth beats Kevin at Ping-Pong and buys too many scandalously overpriced mochas.<br />

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We chat about:</p>

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<li>The 3 different kinds of "feelers"</li>

<li>Whether or not God cares about our emotions</li>

<li>How being a feeler can be frustrating at times</li>

<li>Are we allowed to truly express our emotions to God</li>

<li>How to create emotional boundaries</li>

<li>How understanding emotions can lead to a more meaningful prayer life</li>

<li>The best piece of advice she's ever been given</li>

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