1598: Overcoming Religious Shame and Scrupulosity - Marc Oslund
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
Join Margi and John for our next episode of Thrive Stories tomorrow, Tuesday May 24th, at noon (MST). Marc Oslund will be joining us in the studio! Marc spent most of his young adult life and the entirety of his time in the Mormon church trying to fit in. After converting to Mormonism, Marc’s tendency to be hard on himself grew into scrupulosity--a form of religious OCD that made his self-worth plummet. Marc began to believe that he was never good enough--a belief that took a steep toll on his mental health. After years of suffering, Marc acquired skills that aligned with principles of innate worth, shame resilience, mindfulness, self-compassion that allowed him to overcome his scrupulosity. This episode conveys Marc’s experience ending the hustle to find worth and the lessons learned in the process of coming home to himself.
Disclaimer: although Marc is a mental health professional and therapeutic principles are conveyed in this episode, this not meant to be considered mental health treatment or professional advice.
Thrive Stories is a new podcast series where Margi (alongside John or Jenn) will be interviewing a member of the community twice per month. The interviews will be shorter (1-2 hours), story-based, but will be focused on a particular aspect of healing and growth AFTER a Mormon faith crisis (thus the THRIVE name). They will happen on Tuesdays at noon (MST). Some examples of areas of thriving include: Family Relationships, Healthy Boundaries, Finding Community, Finding Meaning/Purpose, Dealing with Grief/Death, Religion after Mormonism, Health Sexuality, Parenting, Improving Physical Health, Identity, Health Marriage/Relationships, Secular Spirituality, Word of Wisdom 2.0, and Women Finding Their Own Voice after Mormonism. If you would like to nominate someone you know who would be a great candidate for a THRIVE interview, please nominate them (or yourself) HERE.
Show Notes:
- Marc’s MS series
- Scrupulosity MS Episodes:
- Lance Allred MS episodes
- Redefining masculinity with Lance Allred
- Tattoos on the Heart
- Greg Boyle Book Series
- Brene Brown Book Series
- Secular Buddhism
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to Mormon Stories, Thrive Stories edition. I am your host, Margie Dillin, |
| 0:06.6 | and I am joined by my co-host, John Dillin, over there. How you doing? |
| 0:10.4 | Hey, Margie, it's good to be back in the saddle with you. |
| 0:14.0 | How are you feeling this morning? |
| 0:15.4 | I just spent five days in the UK at Thrive UK, and I have to say those post-Mormon Brits |
| 0:24.2 | know how to have a party. So, you know, the US drivers are going to need |
| 0:29.5 | up their game a little bit, especially in the karaoke department. |
| 0:32.2 | Oh, it's so good to have you back. And we had a nice walk this morning, didn't we? |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah, I love coming home to Margie and having our walks and talks and watch our shows. |
| 0:43.4 | That's right. Bring it back on home. So, welcome. If you're new to Thrive Stories, |
| 0:49.4 | maybe I'll give a brief introduction to kind of the idea behind Thrive Stories. |
| 0:53.6 | They're shorter interviews. They tend to be one to two hours long. |
| 0:58.6 | And the idea is to pick an area of thriving after a faith transition. |
| 1:03.7 | And so, you can pick any area. Some sample areas would be parenting or healthy marriage |
| 1:11.0 | or finding community or finding purpose. When am I leaving out? |
| 1:15.4 | Yeah. Give me a couple. |
| 1:16.2 | We're all mental health, physical health, female empowerment, career change, |
| 1:22.8 | just any big transition finding community, any big transition that accompanies a faith crisis, |
| 1:27.4 | trying to kind of help give people tools and tips and tricks to rebuild and to heal and to grow. |
| 1:33.4 | Yeah. That's right. And you can, so you can nominate someone you know, |
| 1:37.2 | and you can also nominate yourself. And I encourage you to do that, especially if you find yourself |
| 1:42.2 | watching, you know, the interviews we've done so far. And you don't feel like you are represented |
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