*** This episode talks about suicide. If you are suicidal, please call/text/chat *988 ***

My friend Jenn Curtis (late 40s, lives in California, experiences same-sex attraction) joins us to share her powerful story out of a desire to help others including:

* Sexual assault survivor which led to unhealthy coping behaviors and immense shame

* Falsely concluding “God is disappointed in me”

* Falsely concluding (at age 17) that death would be a better option

* Feeling unlovable and that “no one could love the real me”

* Finding more hope—but two subsequent decades of living in a “form of internal hell”

* Powerful spiritual experience where God told her she is a “bullfighter”

* Honest about sexual orientation with God, herself, and husband

* Helpful friends—part of the process to remove shame

* As friends loved/accepted her, Jenn considered “I might be lovable—and God may love me too”

* My story is a “beautiful love story”

* Finding joy

* Powerful EFY experience

* North Star

This is a super-powerful, spiritual, and vulnerable podcast providing principles to help us better understand God’s love, how shame has no place in the Gospel, and how Jesus helps heal us. If you are in a hard spot, please listen to Jenn’s story. It will give you more hope. And if you are looking to better support our SSA/LGBTQ friends, please listen and share Jenn’s podcast.

Thank you for being on the podcast, Jenn! You are so brave—you are bullfighter—and your courage is helping so many!

Links:

youtube.com/@LatterdayWomenWarriors

https://www.northstarsaints.org/voh-jenn

www.youtube.com/@TheApocrypharules

www.northstarsaints.org/voices-of-hope-profiles

North Star: www.northstarsaints.org/

Jenn’s Facebook: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007513065761