1522: Surviving Purity Culture at BYU-Idaho - Chandler Roberson Pt. 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 152 minutes

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Summary

Chandler Roberson was raised as a devout Mormon, and always wanted to be the best Mormon she could be. In her teenage years Chandler had a few abusive relationships with Mormon boys, where she felt forced to “repent” for “sins” she never committed. Her senior year Chandler felt pressured to break up with a non-LDS boy whom she genuinely loved, and to attend BYU-Idaho to follow the ideal Mormon path.

While at BYU-Idaho Chandler was sexually assaulted by her Family Home Evening “brother,” which led to her leaving BYU-Idaho early, ultimately attempting to serve an LDS mission with untreated PTSD (returning home early).

Chandler eventually became a nationally-known fashion blogger at “Days of Chandler.” Later, Chandler attempted two young LDS temple marriages, both of which ended in divorce. In her view, she was too young to attempt marriage, but felt intense pressure from LDS Church members to marry young.

This is Chandler’s story. Major themes include:

- Pressure to be a “good Mormon girl” (all on women’s shoulders)
- BYU-Idaho (dating/sexism, sexual assault problem at BYU schools)
- Fashion Blogging (similar pressure to be a certain way – inauthentic/beautiful)
- Personal impacts of being raised in the church ( codependency, sexual shame, etc)
- Pressure to get married (twice).

We are super grateful to have Samantha Shelley (Zelph on the Shelf) as co-host for this interview.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host, John Delin. It is November 10th
0:06.9	2021 and
0:08.4	There are so many reasons I am over the moon excited for today's episode one of which being I have a special guest
0:18.0	Co-host today, so normally I
0:20.6	Have these days care brawl with me on Mormon Stories podcast and I adore my co-host care brawl
0:27.3	But today we have a special co-act, I should say and not but I should say and I have a special co-host today on
0:36.0	Mormon Stories podcast it is the one the only
0:40.2	Samantha Shelley from self of the show face Samantha. Hi. Hello. Welcome
0:45.7	Why do we have the pleasure of your your attendance today your participation to what do we owe this?
0:52.8	That's a good question. Well our guest today has been a friend of mine for
0:56.4	I want to say like eight years and
0:59.5	You know, I'm a big fan of the podcast just happy to be involved. Yeah, and
1:06.0	Sometimes care is not available, so I really like having a field of
1:10.7	co-host to draw from when Cara is
1:13.6	So famous you know talking to the New York Post or other media outlets. I need a backup
1:19.6	So you're basically cares back up. It is an honor to be cars back up
1:23.3	Now of course Samantha you
1:26.5	Runs off on the shelf which is an amazing
1:29.5	YouTube channel and you also do TikTok and Instagram am I forgetting anything we should be plugging just to sort of let people know you
1:37.2	You and Tanner have new and Tanner Gilleland have one of the most epic Mormon Stories podcast interviews ever called
1:45.0	Losing Mormon millennials
1:46.9	Which even helped bring Tyler Glenn of Neon trees out of more than story and many many other people not that that was the point
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