When Life Brings You to Your Knees w/ Gina Gellings (EP #68)

Jun 23
2 min read

Updated: Jun 29

Rebel Rootz Show Episode #68 with Gina Gellings.

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Gina Gellings is a mom, maker, creative, model, and physical therapist living in Denver, Colorado. When she is not raising her family, she is baking sourdough, sewing, crocheting, modeling, and finding beauty in both the handmade and the imperfect.

In this episode, Evonne Varady sits down with Gina to talk about the life moments that bring you to your knees and the growth that can come from them.

Gina shares the story of suddenly losing vision in her left eye after a retinal stroke, the fear of not knowing why it happened, and the reality of navigating a disability that people cannot see. She also opens up about learning to ask for help, leaning on her community, and how her faith grew stronger when she did not have the strength to carry everything on her own.

The conversation also explores Gina’s broken engagement after an eight-year relationship, meeting her husband through a former physical therapy patient, moving to Colorado, infertility, motherhood, modeling, and the moment during a photo shoot when she realized that losing part of yourself does not mean you are no longer whole.

Gina’s story is a reminder that growth often happens in the uncomfortable, and sometimes the moments that feel like the end are actually the beginning of becoming who you were designed to be.

Timestamps:

[00:00] Trailer + Intro

[02:20] Meet Gina Gellings

[03:30] Sudden Vision Loss

[04:51] Retinal Stroke Scare

[07:07] Invisible Disability

[09:55] Brought to Her Knees

[12:29] Asking for Help

[13:27] Gina’s Early Life

[14:43] Broken Engagement

[16:07] Taking a Chance on Love

[20:38] Infertility and Motherhood

[24:43] Finding Modeling

[27:36] Feeling Whole Again

[31:30] Lessons from Hard Seasons

[32:00] Growth in the Uncomfortable

[33:23] Saying Yes

[34:38] Your Story Matters

Key Takeaways:

• “There’s always a story behind a story.” ~ Evonne Varady

• “I’m healthy, I’m young, I’m active, I’m fit, and yet here I am navigating vision loss.” ~ Gina Gellings

• “I have a disability, but it’s not one you can see.” ~ Gina Gellings

• “We can lose parts of ourselves along our journey, but it doesn’t make us not full.” ~ Gina Gellings

• “Growth happens in the uncomfortable.” ~ Gina Gellings

• “Push forward through the discomfort, because that’s where growth happens.” ~ Gina Gellings

• “I wish so many more women knew that what they had to share was so worth hearing.” ~ Evonne Varady

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