Always Somewhere Else: Chronic Displacement, Faith, and Coming Home | Yours Truly Pod

🎙 Episode 118 — Always Somewhere Else: Chronic Displacement, Faith, and Coming Home

🎧 DESCRIPTION

In this deeply personal episode, Christian and Meg Baxter reflect on the emotional toll of chronic travel, the impact of arrested development, and the long road home—to marriage, family, and faith. Prompted by a quote from a Chris Williamson interview with members of the band Underøath, they explore how Christian's past in touring worship bands and recent years as a travel nurse have shaped their relationship and spiritual life.

From NICU trauma to marriage fatigue, from fan culture in Christian music to the quiet pain of disconnection, this conversation is as raw as it is redemptive. It’s a love story shaped by absence and return, confession and rebuilding—a testimony of grace that can only come from living it all the way through.

Whether you're wrestling with your own version of "chronic displacement," or trying to abide more fully where you are, we invite you into this honest space.

⏱️ Episode Themes

The Quote That Hit Us – Chronic displacement, fight-or-flight, and life on the road

Touring, Marriage, and Arrested Development – How early ministry shaped us

The Cost of Absence – Travel nursing, disconnection, and placelessness

Coming Full Circle – Returning to the NICU where our daughter was born

Postpartum and the Fog of Shame – Meg’s honest reflection on bonding and grief

Confession and Collapse – When truth shattered everything and became the path to healing

Learning to Come Home – Reintegration, small talk, and invisible labor

Faith After Failure – Why Christian still believes after betrayal, burnout, and brokenness

Peace in the Valley – Meg on unshakable peace and the presence of God in darkness

The Practice of the Better – Ending with poetry, presence, and a vision for wholeness

👥 PEOPLE MENTIONED

– Chris Williamson (Modern Wisdom) @ChrisWillx

– Underøath (Spencer Chamberlain & Aaron Gillespie) @underoathmusic

– Jordan Peterson @JordanBPeterson

– Esther Perel

– Michael Tate (DC Talk / Newsboys)

– Jonathan Pageau @JonathanPageau

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