EP 27: Navigating The Messy Middle Of Faith Transformation with expert Thomas McConkie & my friend Rebecca Moore Johnson
The Betrayed, The Addicted, The Expert
Ashlynn Mitchell, Brannon Patrick, Coby Mitchell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Thomas McConkie is the founder of Lower Lights School of Wisdom and has a passion for the world's Wisdom traditions. Raised Latter-day Saint, at 18 years old he discovered Buddhism, which remains a wellspring of inspiration over 20 years later.
He is trained as a developmental researcher, facilitator, and mindfulness teacher. He hosts the Lower Lights Sangha in Salt Lake City and has been featured on NPR, Religion News Service, Tricycle Magazine and the 10% Happier Podcast with Dan Harris.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Ashlyn, former co-host of the top 10 recovery podcast that betrayed the |
| 0:07.7 | addicted in the expert. |
| 0:09.4 | I have had my challenge this, but I am also living proof that joy is possible, even when |
| 0:14.3 | life does not go as planned. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm excited to share with you real examples of living a life full of adventure, true healing |
| 0:21.3 | and freedom, no matter how messy life gets. |
| 0:25.4 | Which episode I will introduce you to someone I love in respect, to talk about ways to |
| 0:30.2 | be the buffalo and to face your storms in different areas of life. |
| 0:34.8 | Welcome, we are here with my friend Becca Johnson and my friend Thomas McConkey, and we are |
| 0:43.9 | going to talk about our faith transformation. |
| 0:47.4 | It's kind of messy, and so we brought in the expert, someone that is like five million steps |
| 0:53.5 | ahead. |
| 0:55.4 | He wrote this book that I loved called Navigating a Mormon Faith Crisis, and also he did a program |
| 1:02.3 | that Becca is currently doing, and a program that I did and loved. |
| 1:07.6 | And so we're going to talk about that today. |
| 1:09.5 | So Thomas McConkey is the founder of Lower Lights School of Wisdom, and has a passion for |
| 1:15.6 | world's wisdom traditions. |
| 1:17.6 | He's raised a Latter-day Saint, and at 18 years old, he discovered Buddhism, which remains |
| 1:23.2 | a wellspring of inspiration over 20 years later. |
| 1:26.5 | He's trained as a developmental researcher, facilitator and mindfulness teacher. |
| 1:32.0 | He hosts the Lower Lights Sangra in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has been featured on NPR, Religion |
| 1:38.5 | News Service, Tricycle Magazine, and the 10% happier podcast with the Adherence. |
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