Latter Day Struggles

So grateful for this podcast coming into my life. I’ve gone through a faith stretch this last year and it’s been both incredibly heartbreaking and beautiful. This podcast has helped me dig into the issues I struggle with and give me new ways to view them. I’m thankful to have found community and education through this podcast and realize I’m not alone and it’s ok to have questions. What a relief!

As I’ve started to really take a look at my LDS faith and how I’m personally trying to begin to own my faith journey and start trusting myself, Valerie and this podcast have been immensely helpful. I can’t wait to start attending her weekly support group soon!

I am so grateful to have found the Latter-Day Struggles podcast and community. It has been such a beautiful space full of support, inclusion, and expansion. I had a spiritual awakening a few years ago when I realized that my faith approach was no longer in alignment with my values and life experiences. It was really difficult and terrifying to sit in the discomfort of deconstructing what was no longer helpful to me. I was surprised to find that on the other side of that discomfort came some of the most profound and sacred experiences of my life. I have reconstructed something even more precious and sacred to me- my own spiritual path. I feel secure in my relationship with my Heavenly Parents and Savior as well as the relationship I have with myself and others. Thank you, Valerie, for providing this safe space that supports spiritual stretching and faith expansion. It has helped me and so many others along our personal faith journeys.

Dear Valerie, I am so grateful to have found your podcast. You bring me peace in so many ways, I can’t even begin to tell you. I’ve been a member of the church for 50 years. I’ve always had so many questions about the church but have had no way to find the answers. Your podcast is a gift to me. Not only do you articulate in a way I never could what is going on inside my brain, you then answer all the questions I’ve been storing over a life time. I finally feel seen and heard by you even though you have no idea who I am. I don’t feel crazy anymore. I don’t feel ostracised anymore. I finally feel at peace with who I am and the way I think. There is a place for me, and I am truly grateful to you for making that place here in your podcast. Thank you! And also to your husband who is amazing as well. ☺️❤️