Episode 532: Teresa Myers, Age 24, Bisexual Latter-day Saint

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

My friend Teresa Myers (BYU grad, RM, Recently Married, Active LDS) shares her story as a bisexual Latter-day Saint. Teresa starts with difficult years (including suicidal ideation) that has a component in her sexual orientation. Teresa talks about her decision come out to others, importance of therapy and her decision to share her story to help others. Teresa talks about exploring all possible roads and then feeling personal revelation that her path forward was to marry a man and fully participating in the Church. Teresa talks about opening up to her husband Corbin during the dating process and how that ended up strengthening their relationship and developed a better foundation for honestly, vulnerability and community. Their story is a wonderful love story. If you are a LGBTQ Latter-day Saint, please listen to Teresa’s story. It will help you. If you are a parent of someone wanting to better support LGBTQ Latter-day Saints, Teresa’s insights will help you. Thank you, Teresa for being on the podcast and your courage to share your story. You are strong and brave and you being honest gives hope to others. Links mentioned in the podcast: LDS Living Article: https://www.ldsliving.com/what-can-you-say-when-a-family-member-comes-out-as-gay-7-ideas-from-a-latter-day-saint-mom/s/10712 Meghan Decker Book: https://meghandecker.com/tender-leaves-of-hope Richard Ostler Faith Matters Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/114-are-we-listening-learning-and-loving-a/id1307757928?i=1000561389883 ** Please Check Out My LGBTQ Book At: ** Deseret Book: www.deseretbook.com/p/listen-learn-and-love-embracing-lgbtq-latter-day-saints Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/1462135773 ** Want to develop church-supported LGBTQ activities in your local area? Please join our FB group below ** https://www.facebook.com/groups/1433556613672143

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.4	Before I introduce my guest, I just wanted to let you know about my second book.
0:13.9	It's called Listen, Learn, and Love Improving Latter-day Saint Culture.
0:17.8	And I was recently on the Faith Matters podcast talking about this new book with my friends
0:24.5	Aubrey and Tim Chavez. If you wanted to hear more about that book, I will link in the show notes
0:30.1	to the Faith Matters podcast. They're doing great work at Faith Matters and honored to be a part of
0:35.3	their platform and talk more about this book.
0:38.7	But that's the only plug I'm giving.
0:41.3	I usually try to get right to our guests.
0:43.7	But that's a book I think you'd find helpful as we're trying to improve Latter-day Saint culture
0:48.8	so that more can connect with our beautiful restored doctrine and find hope and healing in their life. But we do lots of
0:56.8	LGBTQ podcasts and I'm honored to have Teresa Myers on the podcast. And she is going to share
1:04.8	her story as a bisexual Latter-day Saints. And as you know, I kind of give a little bit of an intro
1:09.4	and then turn it over my guest to kind of expand out that intro, clarify that intro and get into her story.
1:15.7	But Teresa grew up in Massachusetts.
1:19.4	I'm not how far from Boston?
1:21.8	You're west of Boston.
1:23.1	About half an hour.
1:24.7	An area where I used to go for work quite a bit.
1:27.4	So we were reminiscing about where she grew up.
1:29.5	And I love that part of Massachusetts.
1:31.8	It's green.
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