Life Transitions

I got home from the Mormon Mental Health Association conference recently and couldn’t stop thinking about one sentence. A woman in the audience raised her hand and described something she called “the mistress of the patriarchy.” My friend sitting next to me and I both got goosebumps at the same time. She was talking about […]

Continue reading to find perinatal mental health care in Gilbert, Arizona. I Wasn’t Okay After My Babies Were Born. I Don’t Think I Was Supposed to Be Either. And sometimes I look back at the woman I was when they were little, with everything I know now after getting a master’s degree and spending years […]

Healing is not about abandoning your values. It is about building intimacy without fear, coercion, or self-abandonment.

And why we hope the next generation won’t have to wait as long On June 29, 2026 — the last day of Pride Month — Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Layla Taylor sat down on Jay Shetty’s On Purpose podcast and said something she’d been carrying for most of her life. “I’m gay and […]

Who am I, if I’m not who they told me to be? One of the most common things I hear from clients who have left a high-control religion or cult isn’t ‘I don’t know what to believe anymore.’ It’s something quieter and more disorienting: ‘I don’t know who I am.’ Not what they believe. Not […]

And What It Means for Your Healing Have you ever tried to explain your experience in a high-control religious group to someone who wasn’t there — and watched their eyes glaze over? “But wasn’t it your choice to stay?” they ask. Or: “Why didn’t you just leave?” These questions, however well-meaning, miss something fundamental: leaving […]

Leaving Mormonism does not just change what someone believes. It can change the entire structure their life was built on. For many post-Mormon couples, this can be one of the most painful and confusing parts of a faith transition. A couple may have spent years, sometimes decades, believing they were working toward the same life, […]

He didn’t disappear because he doesn’t care…
He disappeared because he didn’t know how to stay.
For a lot of post-Mormon men, emotional conversations don’t feel like connection…
They feel like something to get right.
And when there’s no clear answer… the nervous system taps out.
That’s not indifference.
That’s overwhelm.

Emotional Overwhelm After Leaving Church: Anxiety, Depression, and Mental Health Effects Leaving a high-control religion or belief system changes more than your beliefs. It changes your entire life, your social world, your identity, your relationships, and how you see yourself. For many people, leaving means starting over in every area of life at once. And […]

Codependent Marriage: The Real Cost of Getting Married Too Young in Religious Culture How Codependent Marriage Develops in Religious Culture In many religious and high-control spaces, young women are encouraged to marry early, often in their late teens or early twenties. This is usually framed as protective or spiritually wise. But when marriage happens before […]