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Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women

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I am so happy to welcome Caitlin to the podcast. Welcome, Caitlin.

Hi, Julie. Thanks for being here. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so grateful. Oh, good. Well,

wonderful. What is your question for me today? So my question, it's kind of long-winded,

but I hope I can kind of get it all in one. So my faith journey, I'm choosing to kind of call it more of a faith journey right now,

is leading to me struggling with garments, tithing, church attendance, things historically in the church, things like that.

I'm just struggling.

Okay.

And can I just clarify that Caitlin's talking about the Church of Jesus Christ

of Latter-day Saints and religious practices just so in case people don't have a context.

So, okay, keep going. Sorry to interrupt. Thank you. No, no. I appreciate that. Thank you,

Julie. And when I think about this, I think of like the possibility

of what this means in the future. And I realize that there's a possibility that maybe I step back

or maybe I leave. I can hardly even say the word leave. But my question, it's scary it's scary yeah yeah my question is how do I I'm going

to get emotional this one I knew I would okay that's okay it happens how do I handle this fear

of not just temporal like the familial side of things, the societal side of things of, you know,

what happens if I leave, but also the eternal consequences of my actions. And it's super scary.

Yeah, yeah. Because like, what if it's, what if you leave and then you find out it's true

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