By Andy Hale
This week’s CBF Podcast Conversation features Megan Febuary, founder of For Women Who Roar and author of the transformative new book Brave the Page: How Writing Our Hard Stories Brings Healing and Wholeness. A narrative trauma care practitioner and creative visionary, Megan invites readers—and listeners—into a journey of healing that begins not in silence, but in story. Through poetic insights and grounded practices, she shows how storytelling isn’t reserved for writers—it’s for every body that carries memory, pain and hope.
In this rich conversation, Megan explores how the body serves as a sacred archive of our lived experience and how writing becomes a way to reclaim agency, name grief and encounter God’s healing presence. From breathwork and inner child altars to breath prayers and Ezekiel’s valley of dry bones, her work weaves together theology, psychology and creative practice in deeply accessible ways. With compassion and clarity, she addresses common fears about writing hard stories and offers gentle guidance for navigating the path of narrative healing.
Whether you’ve journaled for years or have never written a word, Megan’s invitation is simple and profound: if you have a body, you have a story. And that story deserves to be told. Listen to this week’s episode to learn more, and discover how churches, small groups and spiritual communities can become spaces of collective healing through the sacred act of storytelling. Learn more at megafebuary.com and forwomenwhoroar.com.
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- The Gardner-Webb School of Divinity: The Gardner-Webb University School of Divinity aims to equip, nurture, encourage, and support men and women for their very best service in the Kingdom of God.
- The Center for Congregational Health: Strengthening congregations through consulting, leadership coaching, and intentional ministry.
- The Baptist House of Studies at Union Presbyterian Seminary: Exists by God’s grace to educate, inspire, and support generations of bold, faithful servant leaders as they seek actively to participate in God’s mission in the world.
- Community Transformation Center: Through educational opportunities, community conversations, and research initiatives in collaboration with universities and local leaders, PBACTC is at the forefront of integrating spiritual care into holistic community development.
- Creation Justice Ministries: Creation Justice Ministries equips churches to turn conviction into faithful action with Scripture-based resources, worship guides, and community support to pursue environmental justice and care for God’s creation.
- Dawnings: Through prayerful discernment, storytelling, and collaborative visioning, Dawnings helps churches rediscover their calling and imagine their next chapter—guided by trained facilitators and grounded in God’s ongoing story.
- Congregational Ministries Team of CBF Global: Through coaching, resources, and collaborative support, CBF’s Congregational Ministries Team helps churches and ministers cultivate the five traits of thriving—Rooted Relationships, Compelling Clarity, Holy Tenacity, Strategic Agility, and Dynamic Collaboration—for faithful and flourishing ministry.
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Andy Hale is the creator and host of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Podcast. Hale is the Associate Executive Coordinator of CBF North Carolina. He’s also served as CBF’s Church Start Specialist, the founding pastor of Mosaic Church of Clayton, and the senior pastor of University Baptist Church of Baton Rouge. Follow on Twitter @haleandy.