There is a golden picture of rain hanging upon empty walls hunting the heart of my brain

Painting pictures while we're in the dark night

Love rain here comes on under Tracy. Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Story slash Mormon Transitions podcast. I'm your host John Dillin. I'm joined by the lovely Margie Dillin. Hello everyone.

It's good to have you sweetie. It is March 7th, 2017 and we are doing another live podcast. Now as we mentioned last time we've been doing this podcast as a part of the Mormon Transitions brand.

As we mentioned we have received some feedback that that brand is causing some confusion because there are people who are believing in active in the church that don't consider themselves transitioning and we want them to feel like this is for them.

And then there's people who have left the church who no longer think of themselves as transitioning but who definitely are valuing just this general content that we're providing.

So what we asked our listeners last week was to give us feedback on whether we should continue the Mormon Transitions brand or just fold these into Mormon stories and have it be kind of an integrated product.

So there'll be Mormon stories podcasts just on people's stories, some on tertiary stuff and then some on just sort of health and well being.

So today we're going to be broadcasting this is part of the Mormon stories brand. If you guys hate that those of you who love the Mormon transition stuff, please let us know because this is a direction we're moving unless we get feedback otherwise.

Those of you on Mormon stories, if you like the idea of us just folding this in, we want to hear that feedback to or if you don't like that, give us feedback.

So enough of that we are so super excited for today's topic. It's a bit of a sober topic. It's an important topic.

And it's one of the most common ones that comes up for people once their Orthodox religious worldview falls apart. And this applies to an Orthodox believing members.

This applies to people questioning and it applies to people who've left Mormonism or religion altogether. The topic is around navigating loss and death.

And we're going to get into that in just a second, but we do have a few announcements to make.

So our next healing and growth retreat we can call it that or Mormon transitions retreat or whatever we want to call it is this Friday Saturday and Sunday March 10th through 12th.

It's going to be amazing. It's in Salt Lake City. We have a great venue. It's pretty much full. There are a few openings left to somebody really wants to come, but I consider it a fully bent.

And we're going to be talking about understanding a faith transition, understanding the holes to develop.

Once the transition happens, we're going to be talking about secular spirituality, healthy communication with believing family and friends.

We're going to be talking about healthy relationships, intimacy, emotional intimacy.

So many great topics, attachment.

It's just going to be an amazing event. So if any of you want to try and sneak in, Mormon transitions dot org slash events is where you can read about it. Join up.

We're always looking for panelists, especially active believing members or one of the docs attending members. So please email us at right now at Mormon stories at gmo.com if you want to participate as a panelist.

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