The LDS Church Gave Me Inadequate Career Advice
Ann August 3, 2023 20 Comments
In the Young Women program I often heard phrases like, “you’ll want an education, but only so you can fall back on it if your
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In the Young Women program I often heard phrases like, “you’ll want an education, but only so you can fall back on it if your
When I was a little girl, my mom sat me down and shared one of the most impactful tidbits of knowledge with me.
“If your
omen haven’t been theologians? This was not true at the time Elder Maxwell wrote it, and it isn’t true now. What is true, however, is
Consciously connecting to your wanting eliminates so much of the unconscious living that happens when we’re disconnected from ourselves. It becomes a compass that is
It seems the church wants me to act as a buffer to keep my children in the safe, shallow end. But I would rather train
Women theoretically don’t get the priesthood because our all consuming role here on earth is to just be mothers. We can’t be distracted in any
For the last few years, a female friend and I have compared Perimenopause symptoms the way that our younger selves compared rock bands. I have
Here are some particulars of the divine. Vestigial values sprout from me, planted in my chest by the gentle hands of my Biblical sisters.
I would never, ever tolerate a gendered disparity between my son and daughters like what they experience at church in any other context. So why
So, through the practice of baptism, we accept we are sinners, we accept that Jesus chooses us, and we accept that we are choosers who
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