Hey, friends, this is our second Navigating Transitions bonus episode, highlighting your stories and your voices.

We asked listeners to answer the question, what triggered your faith journey?

Here are a few more of the responses we've received.

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we'd love to hear from you. Just click voicemail in the menu on our website. All right, let's get to it.

Hello, Cynthia and Susan. My name is Stacy. I am a lifelong member of the church from Pioneer

Heritage. My faith deconstruction started about two years ago when my third child went through an extremely severe mental health crisis. I will never forget lying on the floor with him one night and realizing I did not believe in a God who would plan this for any of his children. I remember that moment vividly because it felt like the ground dropped out from beneath me and I started to free fall.

It took a long time before I would look up and realize that what actually happened was the sky opened up as well to endless possibilities.

My previous self would call it a miracle that this was happening at the same time that all four of my children started to step away from the church.

Instead of panicking,

I was able to be curious and explore the endless possibilities with them. My husband is still attending,

but has been extremely open-minded about the fact that his wife and all four children have significantly shifted their beliefs. I turned to him after sacrament meeting last Sunday and let him

know I was taking a sabbatical from church for a while.

I don't know how long. Right now I am grappling with the question of whether or not this institution

is one that I want to use as a tool in my own spiritual journey. I am aware that I have a lot of negative

thoughts about the church and have spent the last two years trying to find the good and the reasons

to stay. But my brain just isn't buying

stay because it's good to feel uncomfortable or because you need to speak up anymore. It truly

feels like no one actually wants to hear what I have to say. And I am burnt out on feeling uncomfortable

and just needing to lie down on the bench each week. Thank you both for all you do. You've

provided a community when I have felt very alone.

When I was a child, I had some serious struggles with mental health that combined with church

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