Where did your spirituality end up after your faith crisis? If you are like many of us, we are still trying to figure that out! Today I sit down with Celeste Davis, one of my very favorite ex-mormon content creators! If you don’t already follow Celeste, you should be! She […]
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Dissident Daughters Episode 045- Interview with Sophronia
Today we get an inside glimpse into the barbaric practice of excommunication. Sophronia shares her story of being a life long, fully believing member of the church and how that church eventually kicked her out. Sophronia has written a book relating to her excommunication in which she tells the story […]
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Dissident Daughters Episode 044: Weeeee Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together…Like Ever.
Do you ever think about whether you could ever go back to the church? What is the thing that keeps you from ever going back? In so many ways, the church is like an abusive spouse who makes you feel like you can never be happy without them. This episode […]
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Dissident Daughters Episode 038-A Conversation with a Mormon Medium-Nanette Wride
Today I got to sit down with a very interesting new friend! Nanette Wride is the widow of Sgt Cory Wride of the Utah County Sheriff’s Office. He was killed in the line of duty in January 2014 and this was the beginning of a roller coaster of grief, trauma […]
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Dissident Daughters Episode 037-Stories Of My Life Part 2
Here is Part 2 from this series of stories from my life. This follows my life from marriage at 21 to present day. I share details about marriage, jobs, family, and all the other stuff that goes along with Mormon life. I share a lot of my experiences of being […]
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Dissident Daughters Episode 033: What I Actually Want to Say (Uncensored Version)
This is my uncensored thoughts when thinking about what I want to say to my Mormon family and friends. In the last episode number 32 I tried to create a safe episode to be able to be shared with Mormon family and friends but I finished that project and felt […]
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Dissident Daughters Episode 032- What I Wish I Could Tell My Believing Family and Friends
Today I recorded an episode that hopefully you can feel safe sharing with your believing family and friends or at least take away some thoughts or ideas about how you could approach the subject of your changing beliefs if you need to have those conversations. So much of the heartache […]
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Dissident Daughters Episode 030- Feel All the Feelings
Today I just jumped on totally unplanned to talk through a wave of emotions I had come up for me. This happens from time to time and I feel a bunch of grief for everything I lost in my faith crisis, mostly relationships that have changed and will never be […]
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Dissident Daughters Episode 029- Mixed-Faith Marriage with Kattie Mount!
Today I had the amazing opportunity to interview the wonderful Kattie Mount from Marriage on a Tightrope! I think she is doing just incredible work and I really wanted her to be able to share her thoughts and experiences with us about navigating a mixed-faith marriage. Come listen to our […]
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Dissident Daughters Episode 027- Confessions of a Mormon Asshole
Today I sit down with “Nancy” and confess our worst regrets in the church. We had a great time just talking and laughing about all the stupid things we said and did in the church. Laughter is the best medicine. Sometimes if I don’t laugh about something I’ll cry and […]
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Dissident Daughters Episode 026: Random Ramblings
Just an update on life and some of my random ramblings. Life is good. The podcast is good. Just took a few weeks off and starting back feels good! Looking for feedback, ideas, questions, concerns, opinions and more. And sending love to all of my listeners, thank you for listening!
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Dissident Daughters Episode 025- Patriarchal Blessings
Today I sit down with Jezebel again and discuss our patriarchal blessings. Are they inspired words from God? Do they tell us the future? Do they help us know what God wants for us? Or are they just a weird tradition that sets us up for anxiety and despair? Do […]
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Dissident Daughters Episode 024: The Power of Apologies
Today I talk about reflecting on past harms that we may have caused as Mormons (for me that means evaluating my parenting and mistakes I made in that realm). But also learning how to give and receive apologies when that was never modeled to us in a healthy way. The […]
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Dissident Daughters Episode 023- Change is the Only Constant
Today’s episode is all about change, the good, the bad and the ugly. The fact that we’ve gone through such a significant change in our beliefs also means that our very lives change significantly. And if you’re anything like me, those changes have been hard but good. And when you […]
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Dissident Daughters Episode 020: Life Coaching with Amy Logan
Today I got the opportunity to interview my very favorite ex-mormon life coach! Amy Logan is the creator of the podcast Exmormonology and a Life Coach here to talk to us about how to rewire our brains after a faith crisis! She has personally coached me in my deconstructing mormonism […]