Episode 377: Wendi Jagerson, Active LDS, Bipolar, MS, Family Left the Church

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

My friend Wendi Jagerson, married mother of two and one grandson, bravely shares her journey with complicated life challenges that started after her successful mission in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. Wendi starts with her journey with Bipolar II Disorder which was diagnosed in 1994. Wendi talks about how it eventually became very difficult to leave her own home and how she wasn't able to enjoy church or social contact for several years. Wendi talks about her journey to find hope and healing. Wendi continues with her husband John opening up about his unbelief in 2012 (he is an atheist) and her two adult children also leaving the Church. Wendi talks about how she loves and admires John and how she is keeping the family circle strong and together, while leaving all this at the Savior’s feet. It is a remarkable love story including the birth of their grandson. Wendi also shares about her MS diagnosis in 2013. Wendi’s life is very different than she envisioned flying home from her mission in 1994. But Wendi’s story, like many of our stories, is about the realities of mortality—and how to find hope and healing living with those realities—and the role of therapists, medication, friends, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ to give perspective to move forward. If you are in a tough spot, please listen to Wendi's story. It will give you hope and better tools to move forward. Thank you Wendi for the courage to share your story. You and your family are awesome.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.8	My guest on today's podcast, joining me via Zoom is my friend Wendy Jagersen.
0:15.8	Welcome to the podcast, Wendy.
0:17.8	Thank you.
0:19.3	As background, Wendy is an active Latter-day Saint, a married mother of two
0:24.8	kids and one grandson. She's going to talk about three parts of her life that have occurred over
0:31.9	her lifetime. She's going to talk about her diagnosis with bipolar 2 disorder. That diagnosis occurred in 1994 the year after
0:41.0	her mission to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She's going to also talk about living with MS, and that
0:48.6	diagnosis was official in 2013, but she had symptoms before that. She's going to also talk about her husband.
0:56.3	They've been married 25 years, have a wonderful marriage.
1:00.0	They both serve missions together, well, not together, but in the same mission.
1:05.5	And he is now an atheist, and that all happened in 2012.
1:10.5	I call that a mixed faith marriage, and she's going to
1:13.6	talk about just how to keep a marriage strong and healthy when one spouse no longer believes.
1:20.5	And so this is the podcast platform where we talk about kind of complicated stuff, and it's
1:25.0	really my guests like Wendy that are brave enough to come on
1:29.0	and share their story that helps all of us. Some of you may be in these worlds that Wendy's been in
1:36.6	and perhaps our joint prayers, some of the things that she shares in her perspective and her journey
1:43.2	on these roads will give you perspective
1:45.4	and hope and healing and help you feel like you're not alone.
1:49.8	We offered a prayer and that's our prayer.
1:52.4	So if I do a good job as a podcast host, listeners, I will do very little talking from here on out
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