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Building a life after
Meaning, spirituality, community, identity and purpose once the Church is no longer the centre.
The Church gave you a calendar, a community, a moral code, a purpose, an identity and an answer to death. When it goes, you build your own, and nobody hands you the plans. This is the slow, unglamorous, best part. These guides are about the pieces most people find they have to rebuild, and how the ones who did it well went about it.
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Healing & Joy Beyond Mormonism – David Bokovoy Pt. 4 | Ep. 1878
No Nonsense Spirituality w/ Britt Hartley | Ep. 1890
Finding Joy After Mormonism w/ Sharon Beesley | Ep. 2079
1390: Undefining ‘God’ with John Hamer
Finding Joy After My Mormon Dream Collapsed – Allison Shiffler | Ep. 1929
From Mormonism to Progressive Christianity – Randy Bell | Ep. 1533-1534
Resources for this path
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Sunstone
Sunstone Education Foundation
A magazine, a podcast and a yearly symposium where believers, doubters and former members talk to each other in the same room.
How to Leave the Mormon Church: An Exmormon's Guide to Rebuilding After Religion
Alyssa Grenfell and John Dehlin, 2024
The practical manual: deciding, telling people, protecting your mental health, sex, dating, politics, the first coffee. John co-wrote it.
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Faith After Doubt
Brian D. McLaren
A four-stage model of faith (simplicity, complexity, perplexity, harmony) from a former evangelical pastor. Many Latter-day Saints find their own story in it.
Uplift Kids
Uplift Kids
A values-and-wisdom curriculum for families that want something like family home evening without the doctrine. Built by nuanced and former Latter-day Saints.
Recovering from Religion
Recovering from Religion
A helpline you can call or chat with any time (84-I-DOUBT-IT), peer support groups around the world, and the Secular Therapy Project. Not Mormon-specific, and that is sometimes exactly what you want.
The Gifts of Imperfection
Brené Brown
Shame, perfectionism and worthiness, which is most of what a high-demand religion leaves behind.
The Power of Vulnerability (TED talk)
Brené Brown
Twenty minutes that many people in faith transition say changed them.
Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
Elizabeth Lesser
On the idea that the crisis is the doorway. Margi's book for the grief stage.
Affirmation
Affirmation: LGBTQ Mormons, Families and Friends
The oldest organisation for LGBTQ Latter-day Saints and former Latter-day Saints, with local chapters and a yearly conference.
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