Consistency is Key w/ Claudine, ex-Mormon - S4E7pt1

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🗓️ 3 September 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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After her grandmother passed away, Claudine found peace in her new reality through her faith in Mormonism. Her oldest son, Ian, didn't find the same comfort and began distancing himself from her. When Claudine finally got him to open up, the two went on a journey to better understand their doctrine. Active in the church for 27 years after growing up without associating with a denomination, the sudden loss left Claudine searching for answers. She attended a Mormon funeral and later when missionaries came to her door, she related to the way they processed loss. Claudine's faith was put to the ultimate test when Ian became depressed. Together they began researching areas of the church's history that they had not fully examined before. Eventually they left Mormonism over several contradictory "translation issues" and discrepancies between the teachings on polygamy and the way that it was practiced. Stay tuned, Before You Go: What could be a problem with a belief system that offers itself as the only sanctuary? Rachel reminds us that people tend to hide important parts of themselves in order to remain part of a community. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Welcome to indoctrination, a weekly conversation series about protecting yourself from systems of control.
0:11.2	I'm your host, Rachel Bernstein.
0:13.8	My guest is Claudine Gallagher, and she wants to be able to talk about her experiences with the Mormon church.
0:24.0	She's going to be speaking this week and also next week when you hear more about her life
0:30.2	and the life of her children as her life started to go through some changes.
0:36.3	She was born and raised in the Seattle area and now
0:39.4	lives in Santa Barbara. She's married and has three adult children, two boys and a girl. And she was
0:45.3	an active Mormon for 27 years. She was baptized at the age of 19 and got married in the temple at 23.
0:53.5	And she has a master's in English from B.Y.U.
0:57.6	Brigham Young University.
0:59.0	Her faith in Mormonism was put to the ultimate test, she says, when her oldest son began
1:05.2	showing what she calls signs of church-induced trauma.
1:11.0	And in her effort to help her son, she began researching areas of the church history that
1:16.5	she hadn't looked at before.
1:19.0	And what she says she found were patterns of deception, and then she experienced her own
1:26.9	religious trauma.
1:29.0	And it was something that was the catalyst for her to suddenly question things and to make a change.
1:37.4	She's only speaking from her experience and can't speak about others, but she has done a lot of
1:42.4	research about what can help people who are
1:45.6	leaving what she refers to as high demand religions. She's also become certified as a life coach
1:52.0	and began one-on-one work with those who have left hard-to-leave religions, like Mormonism,
1:59.1	as she describes it. And she wants to be able to see what she can share
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