We're listening to the beautiful mess podcast. This week we're starting a two-part

series about our evangelical Christian upbringing.

This is the first episode where I,

Elsie, share my story, which is traumatic and hurtful,

but also just bonkers at certain parts. It's vulnerable and we truly hope that it helps

someone or is just interesting and a new perspective that maybe you haven't heard

of before. So in many ways, these stories shaped our lives

and who we are today, and we're excited to jump in

and share this with you.

We've kind of mentioned that we were going to do these episodes and we you know decided to

break them up into like LC story and my story and really you'll see that some of

them are kind of similar because we did go to the same church and we're similar age

and all that.

But I think we both have a lot of anxiety around sharing around it.

One, because it's vulnerable.

But two, I just feel nervous to, I would never want to take away from somebody else's experience when I'm sharing my own.

You know, I just want to share my story and I think you feel similar but there's a lot of anxiety there because I think people

can take things the wrong way or I don't know take your story and then somehow apply it to their life which is really not

always the best thing so I don't know yes on that note I'll start my disclaimer

now so you know we love a disclaimer. It's one of our signature moves. So my thing I ask, this is a very

vulnerable episode. It's horrible to talk about this stuff, but I do think it's important. I do think it's interesting and at this point in our lives I think we're far enough removed where like it makes sense for us to talk about it.

What I would ask is like please just let this be my story and in Emma's episode, let it be Emma's story.

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