Exmormonology Ep. 03 Grief & Pain & Your Mormon Faith Crisis

Walking through a faith crisis paradigm shift is hard to describe. In its wake can be intense pain and grief. Today we are going to explore ways to process our pain that comes from our mormon faith crisis.

There will be pain during your mormon faith crisis. It hurts like nothing else you have experienced.

The hardest part of your faith crisis is processing it all. We are human and the last thing we want to do is FEEL our pain. We will find a million ways to ignore the pain. But, the truth is, the pain from your faith crisis is like a big beach ball you try to push down under the water. The problem is that it will not stay down. It will keep popping back up until you look at it square in the eye and deal with it.

It is okay to do an avoidance dance for awhile. Grief and pain are funny that way, they will wait. They will keep coming back around to see if it is time to open up that door.

This process cannot be rushed.

The good news is, this is not a race.

Be patient.

Be gentle with yourself.

Show yourself so much compassion.

Be willing to process the grief and pain you are feeling.

In this episode of Emormonology, I walk you through a few tools to help you with this very heavy process.

THIS is why you are a hero to me. A mormon faith crisis is not for wimps. This is some of the hardest work you will do, processing grief and pain.