How can I better connect and communicate with my orthodox family now that I’ve left the LDS Church?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

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🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In this episode, I talk with Rebecca and answer the question “How can I better connect and communicate with my orthodox family now that I’ve left the LDS Church?” Rebecca left the LDS Church and came out as gay. Her family has been accepting and supportive, but she has noticed they tend to be awkward and avoidant when her girlfriend is around. To Rebecca, it feels like she is being rejected.I ask Rebecca if there is room for people to be awkward around her and her partner without rejecting th...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to
0:23.2	prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your faith. I'm your host,
0:29.2	Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women
0:34.5	all over the world heal themselves and their relationships.
0:38.3	Join me here every week as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them with tools to find healing.
0:45.3	With me today, I have welcome to the podcast.
0:49.1	Thank you so much, Dr. Hanks.
0:50.9	It's great to be here.
0:52.2	Well, thanks for taking the time.
0:54.0	What is your question for me today?
0:56.6	So I would like to know how to connect and communicate better with my Orthodox family since I've left the church.
1:08.7	Okay. So what's been happening? Like what's not working? Sure. I've left the church. Okay. So what, what's been happening? Like, what's not working?
1:14.0	Sure. I feel like, you know, a lot of changes have happened in my life. And I feel like the part
1:22.2	where we come into conflict is when, when those changes are kind of more confronting. So, so I'm gay and, and it's when my
1:33.1	girlfriend is in the picture that things become the most difficult. And I think, I don't know if that's
1:41.1	because, because of the church's teachings that it's okay to be gay,
1:46.1	but it's not okay to be gay.
1:50.0	You know what I mean?
1:50.7	Yes, right.
1:51.9	It's okay to feel gay but not act gay.
1:55.3	Yeah, because my family, like, I feel like the Orthodox people in my life, friends and family, you know, have tried to support me.
2:04.9	But then there's kind of a limit that I'm running into.
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