Not everybody believes “it’s going to be okay” is the right advice to give people in tough situations. Listener Rebecca Edwards shares that as a minister, she was discouraged from saying “it’s going to be okay” to people who were sick…until it was the exact advice she needed.

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114. The "False Hope" of Being Okay