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Girlscamp

WHY I LEFT THE MORMON CHURCH

Girlscamp

Hayley Rawle

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals, Religion & Spirituality

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Three years later, I’m revisiting the question that kicked off the whole Girlscamp podcast. I talk about how my answer to why I left the Mormon church has evolved, and reflect on how this podcast has helped shape me. Here’s to three more years!  The first Girlscamp episode Russell M. Nelson quote on the historicity of the Book of Mormon The Trevor Project Utah LGBTQ+ mental health statistics Sober Mormon TikTok post Tishmal “Leaving for Love” episode YouTube Tishmal “Leaving for Love” episode Join the Girlscamp: After Dark Patreon account ⁠⁠here⁠ for two bonus episodes per month and more. For more Girlscamp content follow along on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. For ad inquiries please email girlscamppodcast@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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G-I-R-L-S-C-A-N-P-S-G-G-E-N-P-S-G-G-G-E-S-G-G-C-E-E-S-G-G-C-L-K-L-K-L-E. A&P, it's girls camp. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the girls' camp podcast. I'm your host, Haley Rawl, and it has been

0:54.4

three years of girls' camp. Can you believe it? I honestly can't believe it's been three years.

1:00.6

Time is so weird. Time gets weirder. I feel like also the

1:08.4

older you get. I feel like having kids makes time go by in strange ways. And three years is a lot of

1:13.1

time to have been coming on this podcast every single week. Wait, I did miss like four weeks in July of last year. But other than that,

1:20.1

coming on this podcast every single week and talking to you, deconstructing Mormonism together,

1:30.9

beginning to reconstruct spirituality. It has been such a joy. I really feel and have been feeling so emotional because today,

1:37.2

this episode is a little bit of a reflection on three years of girls camp, but more so,

1:47.0

it is revisiting the very first episode that I put out, which was titled Why I Left the Mormon Church. I have not listened to this

1:53.0

episode since I released it all those years ago. I've actually intentionally avoided listening to

2:04.1

that episode because it feels like reading an old diary entry, which is already like kind of

2:10.5

cringy when you're reading like

2:16.9

something you wrote three years ago. But it's also a public diary entry that people have listened

2:18.3

to and can still listen to. And there's nothing I can do right now anymore to change it. So I

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