A Priest Overcoming PTSD | Fr. Sam Medley | Episode #350
The BeatiDudes
Father Sam Medley is back with the BeatiDudes to share the deeply personal story of his own trauma, healing, and physical transformation. While serving as one of a small number of priests entering COVID hospital wards during the height of the pandemic, Father Sam regularly encountered death, fear, grief, and families facing unimaginable uncertainty. The experience eventually left him struggling with PTSD, emotional breakdowns, and the realization that he had been carrying far more than anyone around him understood. Father Sam explains how his own wounds gave him what he calls a “library of consolation” that now allows him to accompany others through trauma. He discusses the importance of a loving, listening presence, the courage required to mourn, and the need to bring Jesus directly into the places of pain that people often try to avoid, medicate, or ignore. Sometimes the most powerful thing a person can say is not an explanation or a solution, but simply, “Jesus loves you, and so do I, and we are going to walk out of this together.” Paul Kolker, Nick Bezner, and Jeff Schiefelbein also explore Father Sam’s remarkable 130-pound weight-loss journey, the physical and spiritual discipline of fasting, the formation of virtue through exercise, and the relationship between bodily healing and interior renewal. The conversation somehow also includes autophagy, homemade saunas, excessive earwax, an airborne camping mug, and Nick’s newly discovered second forehead. SUPPORT THE BEATIDUDES https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheBeatiDudes Our Partners: His Way At Work Sock Religious (10% Discount) Solidarity HealthShare Aquinas Wealth Advisors Lucid Private Office Divine Comedy Undivided Life Follow The BeatiDudes: BeatiDudes Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Twitter Jeff Schiefelbein on LinkedIn BeatiDudes Theme Song and Music By The Pencil Bureau Dave Moore Music