Trigger warning: This episode speaks about self harm and suicidal ideation.

What happens when the life you were promised starts hurting your body?

In this episode, Braadyn — creator, photographer, wife, mother, and survivor of religious conditioning — shares her story of growing up Mormon, internalizing the “temple dream,” and realizing that worth, happiness, and belonging were tied to obedience instead of choice.

Her husband Bryce joins the conversation to share his perspective as a convert — entering the church without the lifelong conditioning she carried — and what it was like to witness the imbalance of expectation, freedom, and shame inside their marriage.

Together, they unpack mental health, self-harm, the temple experience, perfectionism, motherhood, parenting, and healing outside rigid rules — through joy, creativity, and learning to trust the body again.

If you’ve ever felt broken for questioning, anxious in obedience, or silenced by faith, this episode is for you.

You didn’t fail.

Your body isn’t betraying you.

You’re allowed to choose for yourself.

Hot Topics💋

Religious conditioning

Leaving Mormonism

Ex-Mormon stories

Faith deconstruction

Religious trauma syndrome

Mental health and religion

Purity culture and shame

Mormon temple experience

Women and religious control

Trusting your body and intuition

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