1636: Finding Peace with Infertility - Jessica Parker
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 147 minutes
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Summary
Join us as we welcome Jessica Parker to the Thrive Stories podcast to discuss her journey of accepting and finding peace in infertility. As a woman who was raised in a faithful Latter-day Saint home, Jessica absorbed all the messages about the role of women and her divine purpose to bear children. She served a mission, got married in the temple, and gave her time and energy to the church for years. All of this came into question when Jessica began her faith journey--which then led to deconstructing and rebuilding her innate sense of value, identity, and purpose as a human being.
Thrive Stories is a podcast series where Margi (alongside John or Jenn) interviews a member of the community once per month. The interviews are shorter (2-3 hours), story-based, and are focused on a particular aspect of healing and growth AFTER a Mormon faith crisis (thus the THRIVE name). They generally 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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to Mormon Stories Thrive Stories edition. I am your host, Margie Dillin, |
| 0:05.9 | and I am joined today by not just one co-host, but two, count them two. I've got John Dillin |
| 0:12.9 | in the house, hey there. Hey! How you doing, babe? |
| 0:15.9 | Two co-hosts is too too many or maybe one too many. I don't know. I'm feeling like it's |
| 0:20.9 | just like today. You're feeling good? I'm feeling good. I'm also. |
| 0:23.3 | Whatever you want, love. And we have the fabulous Jen as well. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello everyone. Jen got her hair did. |
| 0:30.6 | It does look gorgeous. I did. |
| 0:36.0 | Well, we are really excited for today's podcast. And I just kind of want to jump right in. |
| 0:43.5 | What I'll say, if you're new to Thrive Stories, go ahead and jump below to the box. You can |
| 0:48.8 | read all about Thrive Stories and how they work below. If you have a submission, you can |
| 0:53.4 | also see the link there. So we'll just we'll just dive right in because that's how excited |
| 0:58.1 | we are to have Jessica Parker with us here today. |
| 1:00.9 | Hi, hey Jessica. Hi, Margie. |
| 1:03.4 | We are beyond thrilled. I'm so excited. Can't wait. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:07.8 | Thank you for being here. So why don't we start maybe with a little bit of an introduction |
| 1:13.7 | for people just a real general sense for you? Where you live right now, what you love, |
| 1:20.2 | what your life looks like. Anything you want to share that you think would be helpful |
| 1:23.2 | before we kind of dive into a bit of your journey today. |
| 1:26.9 | Yeah, for sure. So my husband and I just moved to Oklahoma about two and a half months ago. |
| 1:32.1 | So I flew out here to celebrate my birthday and but obviously to be here because me and |
| 1:36.8 | you've been in talks about it for about four months. So live in Oklahoma, very healing, |
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