Episode 49: Surviving Conversion Therapy and Suicide and Moving on With Life's Journey with Nathan Winterton

Therapy Thoughts

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

TRIGGER AND CONTENT WARNING: PHYSICAL ABUSE, TORTURE, SEXUAL ABUSE, SUICIDE

This is a deep and emotional episode of Therapy Thoughts this week. Tiffany spoke with Nathan Winterton about his experiences growing up gay in the Mormon Church and his direct experiences with conversion therapy and suicide. There are graphic and detailed descriptions of conversion therapy and suicide in this episode so please listen to this episode when you are in a place to do so and have coping skills available to you. Nathan also talks to Tiffany about how he's doing now living his truth. And how he is now happy and on a life journey. This episode is an amazing interview that you don't want to miss.

More About Nathan:

Nate Winterton is 25 years old. He was born in Salt Lake City, UT and raised in the Mormon faith. He is a suicide survivor, a conversion therapy survivor, and gay. He is a public speaker on suicide awareness, LGBTQ+ awareness, and self-love.

You can find Nathan on Instagram at @nate_win and on TikTok at @nate_win.

If you'd like to donate to Nate for his emotional labor and work his venmo is: @Nathan-Winterton

© 2020. All Rights Reserved Tiffany Roe, LLC. The Therapy Thoughts Podcast is for general informational purposes only. Not intended to diagnose or treat any condition, illness, or disease. Not intended to be financial, legal, medical or therapeutic advice.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Therapy Thoughts podcast.
0:08.8	This is Tiffany Rowe.
0:10.5	I'm a clinical mental health counselor and psychology teacher in Utah, and I want to change
0:15.3	the mental health game.
0:16.9	The Therapy Thoughts podcast is all about breaking down therapy-related topics and making mental
0:22.1	health information easy to understand and super accessible. So join me for quick and direct
0:28.4	educational episodes and some deeper dives with experts from around the world. Together, we are
0:34.6	going to break down stigma. We're going to help each other make peace with mind,
0:38.2	body, and food. We're going to make therapy cool and invest time in our mental health.
0:43.5	Let's do it here, one therapy thought at a time. What's up, everybody?
1:01.2	Welcome to the Therapy Thoughts podcast.
1:03.4	This is Tiffany Rowe coming at you live.
1:06.0	And today I have the great honor to interview and talk with Nate Winterton. He's a 25-year-old born here in Salt Lake City, Utah, and raised in the Mormon faith. Nate is a suicide survivor, a conversion therapy survivor, and gay. He is a public speaker on suicide awareness, LGBTQ plus awareness and self-love. Now, Nate and I talk about some
1:29.9	really heavy topic. So this is a trigger warning and content warning for anyone listening.
1:34.2	We have graphic descriptions of torture, abuse, trauma, assault, suicide. There's some heavy emotional work done in this podcast. So make sure if you
1:51.4	listen that you're in a space to do so, you have good coping skills, a good support system.
1:57.5	Nate is really generous with his vulnerability and sharing a topic that we all need to know about
2:04.2	conversion therapy. And very sadly, that comes with some really graphic depictions of
2:13.0	literal torture and literal abuse. So there's the warning for you. Thank you, Nate, for coming on and
2:21.2	speaking about such a hard topic. You're a badass. And anyone listening today, thanks for supporting
2:26.8	the podcast and being here fighting for mental health and education here in 2020. Okay,
2:32.9	y'all, stay tuned.
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