What if I'm totally and completely devastated?

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🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Ben and Charlie talk about the pain associated with being a gay Latter-day Saint and how they find beauty and hope at their lowest points.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Questions from the Closet. I'm Ben Shalatti.
0:09.0	And I'm Charlie Bird. Each episode, we discuss a question we commonly get asked as LGBTQ
0:13.5	Plus Saturday Saints.
0:14.5	We're not trying to answer this question or come to a consensus, but simply sharing
0:17.5	our perspectives. Today's question is, what if I'm feeling totally and completely
0:21.1	devastated? And this question was submitted by listener Ben S. and Bravo Utah.
0:27.0	Ben and I are not terribly diverse. And we share many opinions on my experiences.
0:33.0	For example, we both, we both cried in our offices this week.
0:38.0	Well, actually, we cried for different reasons. That's the difference. But I, mine was a few weeks ago.
0:43.0	Oh, really?
0:44.0	Yeah, I didn't cry this week.
0:45.0	You all talk about it.
0:47.0	I do.
0:48.0	I actually feel like really heavy about this. But this question, like, wasn't actually submitted.
0:53.0	I wrote the question, but I feel like it represents a lot of the questions that we do get submitted.
0:57.0	Like, what if I'm still sad? Like, what if I'm not okay with who I am?
1:00.0	Like, what if I don't know how to move forward? Like, what if I'm crushed by this thing that happened?
1:04.0	And I just kind of want to talk about how I've been feeling.
1:07.0	Yeah. Great. Well, let's jump into it. How you've been feeling?
1:11.0	You know, we probably should have recorded this a couple of weeks ago when I was feeling totally
1:14.0	and completely devastated. Right now I'm feeling really good.
1:17.0	But it's been a rough few weeks. It really has been super rough.
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