As Whittle and her husband entered the empty nest stage, they were struggling with their relationship. She made a “list of all the things that [she was] mad at him for,” rationalizing that it would be helpful in a counseling session.
“I want you to throw out the list,” Whittle heard God say. “I’m going to help you work through your bitterness.”
Whittle knew she heard God correctly. She shared, “Interestingly, when I stopped making that list and got rid of it, the rash went away.”
Bure pointed out that the “rash was a manifestation of your bitterness.”
“I’m not telling you that your chronic health issue is because you have a broken relationship in the body, because you’ve had church hurt, because you’ve been mad at the church for 25 years,” Whittle continued. “I don’t speak things like that. I’m not a physician.” She also asked viewers not to “disregard that.”
Whittle made the distinction between clinical anxiety and anxiousness. She and Bure both fully support getting help for clinical anxiety. With the lesser form of anxiousness, Bure and Whittle advocate for Scripture meditation as a helpful solution.
Bure offered specific verses, such as 1 Peter 5:7, Psalm 94:19, and Matthew 6:25-34, as starting points for meditation.
Bure shared her own experiences of when her body was overcome with stress. She experienced her first panic attack in a cab in New York City—recognizing it was from stress years ago when she left her position on “The View.”
“When I left ‘The View,’ my very last episode, it was under some really difficult, traumatic circumstances for me,” said Bure. The very next time she was in New York City, several months later, she realized the previous trauma was still affecting her body.
She was overcome with anxiety sitting in the cab, afraid she was “having a heart attack.” With her head between her knees, and after deep, slow breathing, she began to calm down.
“My body is going through trauma because of the last time I was here,” Bure recalled.
