Hi, Latter Day struggles, friends and fans.

We know that navigating a faith crisis can feel overwhelming, especially when it impacts our closest relationships, our parents, our partners, and our kids.

That's why Valerie has created two online self-paced classes to help.

The first is a couple's guide to faith crisis and expansion.

This class is here for a partner

or couple who want to navigate faith shifts with mutual respect and deeper connection. Next is

a family's guide to mixed faith parenting. This class offers tools to help parents develop

greater harmony and understanding when belief differences arise within our families. Both classes are

packed with helpful tools and perspectives that can

give you hope and a way forward. So if you're looking for a little guidance on this,

visit laddarday struggles.com to learn more. And now let's start the show.

Hey, everybody, welcome to Latter Day Struggles. This is Valerie, and I am happy to be here with you today.

I am on my own, and I wanted to visit with everyone today, really just let you into some of my own personal musings

and some experiences that I've had lately that have to do with the topic of cynicism.

Okay, so I'm going to give you a little bit of backstory as I sort of walk you through my own

thoughts. My hope here is that I have some really good thoughts

and they're even fairly well organized in my brain. Let's just see if it works out to where

it becomes organized and it feels organized after I've actually tried to say these things.

I'm sure many of us have had the same experience where we plan something and we have this

idea of what we want to

communicate and at the end of the day we walk away from something and go, oh, that didn't even go

nearly as planned. Let's just see how I'm able to do today. I went on a little silent retreat

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