How One Woman's Faith Led a to a Gigantic Pro-Life Movement — An Interview with Tricia Roos

Tricia Roos is a wife and mother who built her career coaching young athletes in Dallas, Texas. Multiple state volleyball championships pale, however, next to what she gained through tragedy.

Against the advice of medical experts, Tricia completed her pregnancy with a child diagnosed with a fatal chromosome condition. That season her team won, the child in her grew, and eventually, for six miraculous days, Tricia held and loved Annabelle Marie, the daughter no one expected to live.

Tricia and her family rewrote the medical chapter on Trisomy 18, living out a story that galvanized the large high school she worked in, and local media.

On April 18, 2015, the Roos family was honored as the Pro-Life Persons of the Year at the 22nd Annual Bishop's Pro-Life Dinner.

Tricia penned a memoir that delves deep into that unbelievable time in her life. The book is called When Wishes Change: What If the Thing You Feared Most Brings More Than You Dreamed? It was released on August 22, 2021.

Find out more at:

https://www.whenwisheschange.com/

...and follow Tricia and the Roos family on Instagram at:

https://www.instagram.com/whenwisheschange/

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Episode Preview
02:26 - Introduction to Tricia Roos
03:44 - Tricia's upbringing and where she got her love of God and family
07:10 - Tricia and Annabelle's story
14:49 - Tricia's experience writing her memoir, When Wishes Change
19:51 - Going through the pregnancy while coaching at the same time
24:59 - Changes that Tricia hopes to see in healthcare and society
28:34 - The power of stories and having the faith of a child
36:04 - How Psalm 139 strengthened Tricia's faith
38:36 - What Tricia and Annabelle's Army is up to now
41:24 - How women going through something similar can find support
45:27 - Why Tricia only decided to write her memoir five years later
47:58 - Would Tricia want her experience to be made into a movie?
52:26 - Tricia's definition of a "sovereign human being"
55:35 - How to connect with Tricia and get her memoir

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