Hey, this is Glenn, and today on Infants on Thrones, I sit down once again with psychotherapist Josh Neal.

How do we live a meaningful life in the face of psychic emotional injury.

To continue a series of reflective discussions about what our ongoing experience

with the Mormon faith crisis has been teaching us about our own mental health,

vulnerability, authenticity, acceptance of reality,

and the power that we all have

to create emotional well-being through all of it.

The question is, how does that person live a good life

in light of things that happen to them which are awful,

which is really what we're discussing at the core of this.

We're using the Mormon lens of how Mormonism might specifically inflict psychological suffering on people.

What I think the healing process is,

is it's really about responsibility and need resolution.

That's what I would say is healing, and living a life of healing means the person could meet the emotional need which is

I'm angry at the church I have a need to express myself I have a need to be

understood I have a need to express myself, I have a need to be understood, I have a need to be seen, I have

a need to express this sadness.

And that's how the need resolution can begin again, and that's how you can start to take on responsibility for your life

meaningfully. It's about awareness, it's about acceptance and acknowledging and

living. So that's really what for me it's about and it's inappropriate to look at healing as now you will

become ideal as you wish you always work. Yeah. Now if you find yourself on a similar journey and you're looking for someone to help you along the way

You can find Josh at Capitol Hill Therapy in Seattle, Washington and you can find me right here at

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