Mormon Mom Identity Explosion - Fran Grover | Ep. 1961
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 159 minutes
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Summary
In this heartfelt conversation, Fran Grover shares her journey through life within and beyond Mormonism, from her early upbringing in an orthodox Mormon family to navigating grief, identity, and faith. She opens up about losing her sister, grappling with religious expectations, and experiencing deep personal and spiritual shifts while pursuing law school and marriage.
Topics covered include the complexities of a mixed-faith marriage, her evolving views on agency, motherhood, and partnership, and the challenges of leaving the Church. This discussion dives into mental health, deconstructing religious beliefs, and finding empowerment by trusting oneself. Join us as she reflects on rebuilding her identity, embracing uncertainty, and choosing authenticity.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon stories podcast. I'm your host, John DeLinn. It's November 1st, |
| 0:06.2 | 2024. And today we're going to be answering the question, what happens when your identity as a Mormon woman explodes? |
| 0:14.0 | Your identity as a human being, as a wife, as a spouse, as a mother, as a non-student or a student, what happens when you go through a faith transition and you have to kind of reconstruct all of it, including being a mom. |
| 0:32.3 | And we have today as our guest, we're super excited to have Fran Grover with us. |
| 0:37.8 | Hey, Fran? Hi. Thanks for having me. Thanks for have Fran Grover with us. Hey, Fran. |
| 0:41.0 | Hi. Thanks for having me. Thanks for being willing to tell your story. |
| 0:48.2 | Oh, of course. I'm so happy to be here. Yeah. Fran is currently, she's married, three kids, |
| 0:55.0 | but is currently in law school. And we'll be talking about how all that happens and happened. And to help us in that journey is my amazing co-host, Margie. |
| 1:00.5 | Hey, Margie. |
| 1:01.0 | Hello. |
| 1:02.0 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:03.0 | Yes, my pleasure. |
| 1:04.0 | All right, Fran, we always begin with an intention why you would want to tell the story, |
| 1:10.0 | because there'll be believers and people questioning and |
| 1:12.1 | people who have left and a ton of non-Mormons. So why did you want to tell your story? What's your |
| 1:17.4 | intention? I have kind of two intentions. One's a little more outward facing and the other one is |
| 1:24.1 | inward. Outwardly, I felt very validated by listening to Mormon stories |
| 1:30.0 | and other people's stories, and I wanted to share that validation with others, especially women, |
| 1:36.4 | especially moms. I think a faith deconstruction can uproot everything about your life, everything you think about your life, |
| 1:46.6 | everything you think about yourself. And to validate that it's hard, but being able to make |
| 1:54.4 | choices for yourself for the first time is amazing, even if it's when you're 30. |
| 2:00.9 | And to start out with wearing a tank top or trying that coffee, but also realizing that |
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