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Mormon Stories Podcast

1240: The Witbecks: A Conscientious Family’s Journey Through Mormonism Pt. 5

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode we interview Dave, Keri, and Alyssa Witbeck as they discuss their navigation through Mormonism as a family of very conscientious members. Themes in today’s episode include parent/child dynamics, perfectionism, religious orthodoxy, spousal abuse, eating disorders, divorce, depression, and faith crises. We will also discuss the basic THRIVE questions around healing and growth beyond Mormonism.

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Hello everyone and welcome back.

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My name is John DeLin.

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It is January 10, 2018.

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It's a Friday night.

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We've done five, six hours with the Whitbex and we just had dinner and we're here to

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finish our interview with Dave, Carrie and Alyssa Whitbeck.

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For those of you who are bored on a Friday night or super fans of Warmest Stories podcast

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and who are going to be joining us for the close of this interview, we just spent five

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hours interviewing the Whitbex.

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It's an epic story.

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I'm not going to repeat it.

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Suffice it to say it was really powerful and important.

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You should all go back and listen if you haven't yet.

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But where we left off, Dave and Carrie, who are here with us, Whitbeck, they had lost their

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