When Your Body Breaks but Your Faith Holds: Stephanie Franklin-Suber's Journey of Hope, Healing & God's Purpose!When Your Body Breaks but Your Faith Holds: Stephanie Franklin-Suber's Journey of Hope, Healing & God's Purpose!
Anchored by the Sword
Stephanie Franklin-Suber shares her experience of cancer, chronic illness, deep grief, and surviving cardiac arrest, alongside a faith that stayed steady through it all. She and host Gina Fox talk about her triune temple journey framework, focusing on caring for body, soul, and spirit so health and faith can work together.
36:01•7 Jul 2026
When Your Body Breaks and Faith Holds: Stephanie Franklin-Suber’s Triune Temple Journey
Episode Overview
- Trust in God becomes deeply personal in seasons of illness, grief, and uncertainty rather than staying abstract or theoretical.
- Neglecting self-care through perfectionism and constant striving can leave the body vulnerable and limit the ability to serve others.
- Viewing yourself as a triune temple—body, soul, and spirit—encourages balanced stewardship of physical health, emotions, and spiritual life.
- Simple, honest prayers and steady engagement with scripture can anchor hope during long periods of suffering and recovery.
- Apparent interruptions through illness may be God’s way of redirecting life toward his purpose rather than an end to usefulness.
“When you're in a struggle, you're in the middle of a miracle that has yet to manifest in his way, in his timing, according to his will, not our expectation.”
What drives someone to seek a life that honours both their health and their faith? This conversation on Anchored by the Sword follows Stephanie Franklin-Suber, a certified Christian health coach, cancer conqueror, and cardiac arrest survivor, as she talks through a body that has broken multiple times while her faith stayed firm.
You’ll hear Stephanie describe being diagnosed at 48 with a rare, aggressive breast cancer and being told she had five years to live, right after losing her mother to cancer at 49. She shares how pushing through exhaustion, perfectionism, and people-pleasing left her vulnerable, and how Psalm 23 and healing scriptures became her lifeline. Twenty years later, she’s still here, and she credits God’s presence in every valley.
The episode gets even more intense as Stephanie recounts years of chronic illness, the sudden deaths of her sister and brother-in-law, and a cardiac arrest where she survived 50 minutes of CPR and extensive surgery. Gina Fox, the host and a nurse by trade, brings a practical, medical perspective and genuine amazement at Stephanie’s survival and ongoing recovery.
Out of this long road of suffering and rebuilding, Stephanie explains her "triune temple journey" and five-book faith and health collection, built around caring for body, soul, and spirit as a "holy temple". She talks through the outer court (body), inner court (soul), and holiest of holies (spirit) as a simple, scripture-centred way to prioritise health so you can actually live out your calling.
This episode suits anyone juggling faith, stress, illness, grief, or recovery, and especially those who’ve learned the hard way that ignoring your health comes at a cost. It’s honest, gentle, and full of practical encouragement about rest, self-care, and trusting God’s redirection. If your body is shouting at you and your spirit feels worn out, could this be the nudge to rebuild your "temple" differently?
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