1852: My Troubled Teen Center Nightmare - Becky Loveless Pt 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 187 minutes
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Summary
Becky Loveless shares her personal story of growing up in a devout Mormon family and community. She discusses the immense pressure she felt to be perfect and avoid any behavior considered sinful. This culminated when, at age 17, her parents discovered she had been intimate with her boyfriend and secretly sent her away to a strict religious behavioral modification camp called "Lifeline" in Salt Lake City without her knowledge or consent.
Becky recounts the traumatic experiences at this camp, including the rigid rules, lack of credentials among staff, and the emotional manipulation tactics. She explains how the ordeal negatively affected her self-worth and strained relationships in her life for years after. Becky emphasizes the lack of understanding about normal adolescent behavior in these religious communities, the damage caused by guilt and shame, and the need for more open, understanding parenting. She hopes that increased awareness and support for youth might prevent this from happening to others.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I am your host |
| 0:03.8 | John Delinn. It is January 15th, 2024 and today we are super excited to be covering a really important topic that we've known about for years, but we haven't yet covered. |
| 0:18.0 | Utah is known as sort of the national capital for what's called the troubled teen industry. |
| 0:26.0 | And I think there's a new Netflix documentary out called Hell Camp that I haven't seen yet, |
| 0:32.1 | but I think it's about kind of these wilderness troubled team |
| 0:35.3 | camps in Utah. I think we plan on covering that episode later, but in the meantime, my dear friend Samantha Shelley from Self on the Shelf, hey Samantha? |
| 0:46.6 | Hi. |
| 0:47.6 | You brought to me the story of Becky Lovelis and her husband Alex, thank you for doing that. |
| 0:54.6 | Yeah, I think it's going to be a great story. |
| 0:57.0 | And it's great to have you back on Mormon stories. |
| 0:58.6 | We have missed you. |
| 0:59.4 | Yeah, I'm happy to be back. |
| 1:00.8 | And I'm glad you're covering the troubled teen industry. |
| 1:03.4 | Yeah, it's kind of a big deal. |
| 1:05.1 | Paris Hilton's been waiting for you. |
| 1:07.6 | Right. |
| 1:08.6 | She's next. |
| 1:09.6 | Paris Hilton is tomorrow. |
| 1:10.6 | Paris, we're ready. Yes, Samantha, you are a co-host of self-on-the-shelf podcast and you also do kind of life coaching, is that right? |
| 1:20.0 | Mostly faith transitions coaching, yeah, it we are on YouTube at self on the shelf. All right well |
| 1:28.5 | thanks again it's great to have you why hast thou forsaken us? |
| 1:31.8 | Don't be such a stranger. |
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