It is a Whiskey and Wine night on this episode of The Irreverent Sessions. (recorded on March 14th)

Tonight Jim is drinking Jack and Coke and I am drinking a fabulous Chardonnay, Sonoma-Cutrer. (so freaking good!)

In this session of Irreverent, a few of our topics include...

Murder Among The Mormons.

Mormon Temple Remodels and The Temple Murals.

God and The Holy of Holies, a spot for God and Jesus.

Kolob, near Kolob.

Amy reeealllly loves this wine.

GenExers putting the X in Exmo.

A different mormonism now???

The church morphing into mainstream Christianity.

Finding ourselves defending mormonism to outsiders who do not know what they are talking about. Weird in so many ways.

Why my podcast name was very intentional.

The set up of being labeled an apostate.

And more! You really have to listen to the whole episode! We meander. :)

Rewriting your own personal narrative is a completely different process now that you have left the mormon church. What do you believe now? What is true for you? What are the words you use to talk about yourself? I want to talk a bit more about the framework we build from, once we have had a religious faith crisis. You and I both know that this is about way more than just the mormon church and the narrative "they" had for you. So, I am moving the focus to YOU today wildflower. What is your story now that you have a blank slate in front of you. Let's play in this thought playground for a little while, shall we?!

As mormons, we were raised that there was one right church and one right way to live your life. Just stay on the mormon plan and you will be good. Then, boom, you stumble along and run smack dab into your own personal faith crisis.

The deep conditioning you have experienced bleeds over into this new paradigm you find yourself in as you navigate life post mormon. Is there one right and true way to get through your faith crisis and your new post mormon life?

Let's talk about this interesting dichotomy you are experiencing in this week’s Exmormonology Episode.

In this weeks episode of Exmormonology, I want to share with you a time table of my life since my mormon faith crisis. I have had different milestones along my path that have helped shaped my life and I have a feeling you will relate to many of them. I discuss my faith crisis, a wee bit of my marriage, my youtube channel Soul Searching Girl that changed to Amy Logan Post Mormon Life. I discuss my emerging awareness of patriarchy, intersectional feminism, life coaching and more. Grab cup 'o something and talk a journey with me. Exmormonology Ep. 50 Where I am now, 15 years post my mormon faith crisis.

Jim and I sat down, had a few drinks and pontificated about mormonism. Some of the topics up for discussion...

Seeing things with your spiritual eyes.

TikTok @exmormonology and @brashreligion

Whiskey Sour

Polygamy

Amy is old

Ordering drinks

Why people drink

Church distractions

Second Anointing

Initiatories

Brochure upon name removal from church records

Doubts are of the devil

Cozy up and laugh loudly with us.

A&J

Exmormonology Ep. 49 ~ So many stages to this leaving the mormon church experience.

You rode the first wave of complete shock and you are feeling a bit stunned, and then, the second wave hits you. Ouch. I know it feels overwhelming, because you don't want to be feeling these emotions. You want to resist these feelings. What if this is exactly how it should feel?

In this episode I want to talk about the "second wave" for a bit. A second wave is coming, so to speak. But I have good news for you! You learned something from the first wave and you are already stronger.

I love Exmormonology and that we have crossed life paths because of our common life experience of leaving the mormon church. I love spending time with you as you are working through a very very very huge life change. I will say it again, LEAVING THE MORMON CHURCH IS NOT FOR WIMPS. Yes, yelling that from the roof tops. It will challenge you and stretch you and offer all sorts of opportunity for growth. In this episode, I reflect on the past year (again) and I also discuss some of my intentions with moving forward. I know it can feel like you are stagnant tho, as you process all that you are going through. The truth is you have an amazing big beautiful life ahead of you and you will be a better person for this transition in your life.

So many stages of life after mormonism. The truth is, it is and always will be an on going journey. Being mormon was a part of you through and through, and because of that you have a lifetime of experiences to always remind you of the life you created as a latter day saint. And, part of your life journey post mormon, will be the pieces of the choices you made as a member. For me, it was standing out side of an LDS temple, while my son was getting married for time and all eternity. Here is part two of my son's temple wedding day.

Is your active mormon son or daughter getting married in the Mormon Temple and you can't be there because you left the church? Yeah, me too. Let's talk about how to manage your mind around this potentially emotional experience. When I left the church back in 2006, I knew that one day I may have to deal with this and now I am, tomorrow. I recorded this podcast last week discussing some of my thoughts and self coaching around this very happening. Exmormonology Ep. 46 is the story of my temple wedding back in 1990 and now my son's temple wedding in 2020.

Time to let our hair down around here! Let the Irreverence begin in Exmormonology land. This week James and I dive into...

Chartreuse

Wine and Whiskey

Thinking for Yourself

Paul H. Dunn

Believing Verses Knowing

The New Apologists

I, Amy, am always right (obviously)

Cherry picking the Bible

Tithing is the fee....

James quotes the New Testament

Exmormonology Podcast Facebook Page

and more!

Fear is a powerful feeling. It can consume us and keep us stuck in so many areas in our life.

Religions, including Mormonism, use fear to keep people in line, in the boat, and doubting your doubts. You don't see this, until you see it.

When one leaves the mormon faith, they start to see the effect fear has played in their life. But, then fear is so powerful that it works to keep you frozen….still. Fear keeps doing what it does.

You and your brain are in a little battle. It is hard to see because the “feeling” of fear is so strong and can be so paralyzing.When you sit down with your fear and let it be there, without making it mean anything about you, you are beginning to break the fear cycle.

Let's talk about how we "feed the fear" with our looping thought patterns created from our ancestor's need to survive and our religious and social conditioning we are living, right now, in our lifetime. Let's dive into Exmormonology Ep. 45.

Someone asked me the other day, "Amy, what have you done with all of your mormon "things?" Garments, Temple Clothing, Scriptures, etc. etc. etc. Great question! I love this Q so much.

I want to share with you what I did/do, and I also want to know what you have done with your mormon paraphernalia?

In this episode of Exmormonology, let's talk about all of your options. We really do collect a lot of things over our lifetime of being mormon, don't we? It was our life AND our lifestyle, so it makes sense that we have some decisions to make with all the THINGS!

We have wrapped up the first year of The Exmormonology Podcast and we are celebrating over 20,000 downloads! What??? So exciting!

Today is all about celebrating and reviewing all we have accomplished together over the course of the past year.

If you are a post mormon, progressive mormon, active mormon but wanting to understand your exmormon friends and family, or full on exmormon, this podcast is for you.

Learning how to life live after mormonism or while you are questioning mormonism, can be challenging. It has always been my goal to help you navigate this path in healthy ways, paying particular attention to your mental health.

Thank you for being a WILDFLOWER! I celebrate you!

Thank you for listening to Exmormonology. Make sure you sisten all the way to the end of this episode for a special Wildflower Bonus, just for YOU.

Were you triggered by your social media feed being inundated with #givethanks posts? It was a lot, wasn't it. Let's talk all about it in this week's Exmormonology Episode. I address a lot of the reasons why you were triggered, but also I am going to give you a little tough love. If you are a regular listener to Exmormonology it is because you are looking for ways to heal and not be so triggered, so this means you can handle a little tough love from me, your life coach. Let's dive in.

Time and time again we give our emotional power away every time someone says something that sends us over the edge, especially when going through a mormon faith crisis.

In this episode of Exmormonology, I am going to tell you what is happening, what to do, and how to feel more empowered during and after your faith crisis.

You are fully capable of growing stronger through this process. I believe in you. So, grab a pen and paper. You will need to take notes during this episode.

I was in a major car accident a few weeks ago. I have been recovering from a concussion. While I have had a lot of down time and very limited screen time, I have had a few thoughts (okay, a lot of thoughts) about my post mormon journey , my life and how life can change in an instant. I hope you tune in as this episode of Exmormonology is me being very human and vulnerable.

When you start down the yellow brick road of your inquiries into mormonism, you could never have imagined what was coming. AmIright?! As humans, we fear the unknown. We want and crave certainty. We probably do not even think about it much because we just assume we have a certain level of control over our lives. Nothing like a religious faith crisis to show you how much you want certainty in your life. Our brains hate uncertainty. We try to avoid it at all costs and we panic when we do not have it. Diving into all things uncertain in this weeks episode of Exmormonology.

Let's talk about sex, baby! On this bonus edition of Exmormonology, The Irreverent Sessions, we talk about sex and the mormon church's influences on how we have been conditioned, accepted or not accepted, within the roles presented to us. We laugh, (I) get teary, and of course all things irreverent. Everything from how to make a Michelada (a Mexican beer), hope chests, being a virgin, purity culture, hypocrisy, Mitch Shira and apostle's impersonations, @talkpuritytome and so much more.

This week is a quickie Exmormonology Ep.

I want to share a few tender feelings that RBG's death brought up for me. I am curious if since you have left the mormon church, do you have moments of feeling ignorant on topics you paid no attention to when you were BUSY being mormon?

Yeah? Me too.

Let's take a moment and honor Ruth Bader Ginsberg and talk about her legacy and how we can use her life as fuel to light a fire under us to learn all we can about women who have paved the way for you and me.

Do you love coffee as much as me? Did you start to drink coffee in the closet, so to speak, when you felt too guilty to drink it openly around your mormon family? Yeah? ME TOO! Guilt and shame often run the show when you are in deconstruction mode out of the church. Let's talk about the psychology and mind control the church had over you, all under the guise of obedience. This week, I am coming at you from a coffee shop in Texas. Can't wait to dive in with y'all!