Can Love Survive a Faith Transition?

How to Find Your Identity After Leaving Religion, Work, or Old Roles

How do you find your identity when the thing that defined you is gone? Leaving religion. Losing a job. Becoming a parent. Shifting roles in a marriage. All of it can leave you feeling like… who even am I now? In this episode of The Mystic and the Saint, we talk about identity loss and what it actually looks like to rebuild your sense of self after everything changes. We get into: * how to find your identity after leaving religion * identity crisis after job loss or career change * losing yourself in motherhood or becoming a stay-at-home parent * mixed faith marriage and identity conflict * feeling lost in life and trying to figure yourself out again * separating your identity from roles (mom, provider, religion, career) * how to start reconnecting with who you actually are

I Resented My Spouse… and Didn’t Even Realize Why

S1E5 What happens when your partner can’t see the pain you’re living in? In this episode of The Mystic and The Saint, we talk about resentment. Where it comes from, how it builds, and what it actually feels like when you're in a marriage where your beliefs, experiences, and reality don’t match.

How Do You Raise Kids in a Mixed Faith Marriage?

In episode 4 of The Mystic and the Saint, we talk about one of the hardest parts of a mixed faith marriage: raising kids together. When one parent believes in organized religion and the other doesn’t, how do you decide what to teach your children? How do you respect each other’s beliefs while still guiding your kids spiritually?

Can Love Survive a Faith Transition?

What happens in a mixed-faith marriage when one spouse leaves the LDS Church and the other stays? In this episode, we talk honestly about faith transition, Mormon marriage, fear, control, divorce conversations, counseling, and how we learned to stay connected despite major belief differences.

Stereotypes That Nearly Broke Us

Today we discuss how stereotyping each other's religious beliefs stopped us from understanding them.