1857: Overcoming Depression as a Mormon Mom - Tara Herbert Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Summary
Tara Herbert recounts her challenging journey within Mormonism and motherhood, reflecting on the societal pressures and personal struggles she faced. Despite feeling unprepared, she experienced the birth of her first child within the confines of Mormon teachings, grappling with the disconnection she felt towards motherhood and the expectations placed upon women. Tara delves into the erasure of women's roles within Mormon theology, feeling disrespected and marginalized. She confronts the sexist doctrines and rituals of the faith, ultimately realizing the toxicity of the environment and its limitations on her identity and well-being. Through personal and familial trials, including PTSD and infertility, Tara navigates her disillusionment with Mormonism, finding solace in stepping away from its constraints and embracing a more liberated perspective on life and motherhood. Despite fluctuating emotions towards her past experiences, Tara prioritizes her mental health and autonomy, recognizing the importance of complexity and personal growth over the pursuit of a simplistic notion of happiness propagated by her former faith.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Mormon Story's podcast. I'm your host |
| 0:04.2 | Sean Delinn. I'm here with my partner Margie. Hey Margie. |
| 0:07.7 | Hey Margie. It is January 23rd, 2024 and we're super excited to have back for part two of what I think is an epic |
| 0:16.0 | Mormon stories interview Tara Herbert hey Tara welcome back thank you for |
| 0:20.9 | having me for those who didn't join us for part one, |
| 0:24.2 | stop this, pause it. |
| 0:26.0 | Go watch part one, listen to part one, |
| 0:28.5 | and then come back for part one. |
| 0:30.6 | We talked about Tara Herbert being adopted into a Mormon family as a person of color. |
| 0:37.5 | She was raised in South Jordan, Utah. |
| 0:40.7 | We talked a lot about how she dealt with being both an adopted kid and a black child and black adolescent kid in |
| 0:49.0 | Ultra Mormon Utah playing basketball and doing all the normal teen stuff but feeling a lot of normal |
| 0:56.4 | Mormon teen shame. |
| 0:58.5 | And we also talked about her going on a mission to Atlanta and the trauma that she experienced on her mission and having a friend died by suicide and eventually coming home pretty broken in her own words from her mission meeting her husband and |
| 1:15.8 | getting married not in the temple at first the shame parade that followed and |
| 1:21.6 | then finally getting sealed in the temple to her husband and to |
| 1:26.4 | their newborn baby. |
| 1:28.4 | And that's kind of where we left off and what we're going to be talking about in part two of this epic interview |
| 1:36.3 | is her mental health, having kids, her marriage, and meeting her biological mom and then sort of her Mormon journey that included kind of a |
| 1:50.4 | faith crisis. Yeah. |
| 1:53.0 | And so that's going to be what we're, I think we're going to cover, what did I leave out? |
| 1:57.0 | No, that covers pretty much all. |
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