Season 1, Episode 10. What I Learned When I Couldn’t Ignore Polycystic Kidney Disease Anymore. An Interview with Khaiah Thomson.

We are interviewing all our regular contributors in Season 1 for you to get to know them better. Khaiah Thomson is a social worker and the author of the Blackwood series.

In today’s episode, we explore:

• Turning your creative hobby into your job and finding ways to get unstuck

• Growing up as a pastor’s kid in the country. Khaiah believed she was a Christian, but when she moved to Perth as a teenager she wrestled with feeling alone and unlovable. God said to her, “You don’t know me.”

• In a time when people want to outsource discipleship of their kids, the value of growing up in a big family where she felt like it was a safe place to wrestle with all her big questions about faith and life. 

• Working as a hospital social worker on the renal transplant team whilst also diagnosed with Polycystic Kidney Disease. We discuss coming to terms with eventually needing a kidney transplant when she wanted to ignore it and learning to rest in the fact that God is in control.