How can I talk with my spouse about my faith transition?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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In this episode, Dr. Julie Hanks coaches Blakelee and addresses the question "How can I talk with my spouse about my faith transition?" One of the patterns I’ve noticed when couples talk about faith transitions is we often lead with facts instead of feelings which can sometimes lead to our partner feeling defensive or shutting down.During this episode, Dr. Hanks guides Blakelee through how to focus on expressing her feelings about the church to her husband, and how she can acknowledge the pai...

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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
0:43.0	with tools to find healing.
0:45.1	I'm so excited to welcome Blakely to the podcast today.
0:48.5	Welcome, Blakely.
0:49.9	Hi, thanks for having me.
0:51.4	What is your question for me today?
0:54.0	My question is, I guess a little
0:56.6	background first. I am kind of recently going through a faith transition or a faith journey.
1:03.2	Sometimes it feels like a crisis, so I use the word crisis. And it's just really hard to talk to
1:09.8	my husband about.
1:11.9	It's very, I guess, triggering and hurtful for him when I try to ask him questions or discuss new things that I'm learning.
1:19.4	And so I'm just wondering if you have any tips or advice about how to start a difficult conversation and if boundaries crossed,
1:31.6	like how to say that that hurt my feelings or I need to stop talking about it or something.
1:39.7	Yeah, yeah, that's a tough one.
1:42.5	And I worked with a lot of couples who've been in that situation.
1:47.8	So just to clarify, your members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
1:52.9	That's correct.
1:53.7	Okay, just want to make sure that our listeners are all on the same page.
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