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The Path
In 2023, I wrote this poem to describe what it has felt like for me to find my own Path through the Wilderness. There is an unmarked road the begins just outside your door…
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Cultural Reappropriation of the “Feminine”
As our world becomes more nuanced and diverse in terms of gender identity and representation, it is good practice to question our gendered language and why we use the terms we use, especially if…
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Embodied Transitions: 6 tips for Easeful Religious Deconstruction
For me, the right time for de-conversion was in 2020. I had been born and raised Mormon and more than just following the program set for me–I really, thoroughly, earnestly believed my dogmas of…
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Discontent with Content: My break up with Social Media
A year and a half ago, I finally took the plunge. I warmed up with LinkedIn, my barely-used online resumé. That was easy enough. Delete. Then, Twitter (it was still Twitter, at that point).…
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Triggers and Self-regulation : 2024 Election Aftercare
Every effort we make to individually regulate our own triggers, is thus, a gift of healing we give back to our community, as well.
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I’m not risking my Eternal Family just because you had a faith crisis.
Q: “I’m not risking my Eternal Family just because you had a faith crisis.” I want to sit with this feeling for a moment. 🌖It’s real. 🌗It’s big. 🌘It’s scary. 🌑 Allow me to…
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The Church is a huge and complex organization, it’s doing the best job that can be done, under the circumstances.
🍫In the midst of our faith crisis (aka “trust-in-the-Church crisis”), this line brought me comfort, too. 🔬Every time I ran into another story of an Apostle lying to our faces, or another story of…
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We used to be friends. I don’t know how to talk to you, anymore.
I got a message recently. It said: “We used to be friends. I don’t know how to talk to you, anymore.” ♥️ Something I love about having grown up in the LDS Church, is…
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Aren’t you doing more harm than good through talking about this?
I recently received this question: “Aren’t you doing more harm than good through talking about this?” This is a fall-back question that most of us in faith-crisis get to, also. Although, from the crisis-perspective…
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Why can’t you just be content to have your journey and let Church members be?
“Why can’t you just be content to have your journey and let Church members be?” 🌞To me, agency is sacred.🌞 It’s something I think a lot of Church members agree with me on (at…
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How can I NOT End Up Apostate Like You?
I hope everyone is grateful that I haven’t gotten more messages like this. Because I would probably not choose my words as carefully as I have so far, if I had. Anyway, I recently…
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The #Givethanks Anti-Polygamy Posts: Intro
Day 1 In honor of D&C 132 coming up for study in “Come Follow Me” I will be turning my Facebook into a week long #givethanks stream for all the sources and stories that…
Written Words
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Cultural Reappropriation of the “Feminine”
As our world becomes more nuanced and diverse in terms of gender identity and representation, it is good practice to question our gendered language and why we use the terms we use, especially if…