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Mormon Stories Podcast

917: Mormon Bishops and the Handling of Abuse - Jen and Todd's Story Pt. 2

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this gripping interview on Mormon Stories, we interview Jen and Todd who share their personal experiences when bringing issues of abuse to the attention of Mormon Bishops.  Throughout her life, Jen suffered through periods of abuse that greatly impacted her physical, emotional, and spiritual health, including severe bouts of anorexia.  In this interview, we learn of the failures to deliver the help Jen needed from some Mormon bishops, but also the success of another Mormon bishop, Todd.  We learn how Todd helped Jen during her darkest time, and what tools Jen used to begin living her best life.

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Part 1: Jen shares her abuse story and the impact it had on her life

Part 2: The abuse continues into her marriage, and Jen details her unsupportive experiences with Mormon Bishops

Part 3: Jen finally has a positive experience with a Mormon Bishop, Todd.  We also explore Todd's experience losing his faith

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We've talked about warm and women just not ever considering themselves sexual beings.

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So all the messaging around sex within warm and asm as a young girl is don't wear this, don't wear that.

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Behave, it's your job to keep the warm and boy pure and healthy.

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So there's nothing around sex is great.

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You can really enjoy sex someday.

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It can be a really important healing part of your life or a really nurturing part of your life.

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Get to know yourself, get to know your body, masturbate even if that helps you get in tune with enjoying sex and sexual size faction.

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Knowing what your arousal template is and then helping you come into a marriage,

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knowing and believing that you're sexual being, knowing what does turn you on or work for you in terms of arousal.

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None of that is allowed.

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And so you're just stuck in the situation where you don't even think of yourself as supposed to be enjoying this.

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It's sort of your duty to allow your husband to pleasure himself.

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