Wannabe Balanced | MINDSET Coach

Margi Dehlin is a co-host on The Gift of the Mormon Faith Crisis podcast and a Certified Life Coach. In her work she explores life transitions (involving religion, death or loss, divorce, illness, or empty nest syndrome) as they impact marriage, parenting, identity, family relationships--and one's ability to find a renewed sense of purpose amidst daily living. In this episode we discuss the emotio...

Sean and I discuss some pitfalls when it comes to our ever changing beliefs and opinions. *Trying to create harmony as we navigate our different interests and understandings around the meaning of life. *How we are growing together EVEN when we disagree on so many things. *Is it okay to ONLY consume information that makes you feel good, and to what extent is that just ignorance?

What is TRUTH? "Does it light you up? Or does it put you into fear? It is an impossibility to know THE TRUTH. Meaning there are so many perspectives . This multidimensional universe is far more complex than the human is allowed to experience. There is only so much that you are supposed to, or are designed to access. Yes, you can have cosmic multidimensional experiences. But if you are looking for...

What story do you choose to believe? In this episode I share my persepective on this world wide crisis we are faced with and the story I'm choosing to believe.

Leah Young and I discuss some of the ways our parenting has changed since leaving Mormonism. *How to allow our children to make their own choices while still maintaining rules and boundaries. *Ways to have better communication with our teens. *Overcoming the Mormon mentality around comparisons and feeling we're never measuring up as parents.

C.S. Lewis on pandemics and other horrors: “In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How are we to live in an atomic age?” I am tempted to reply: “Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, a...

Rachel and I discuss some of her thoughts and new beliefs since leaving the church about 4 years ago. "I left the church in November 2015 when "the policy" was announced. At the time I still believed that Joseph Smith was involved in the restoration of truth, but that over 200 years the church had gone into apostasy because the moment I heard the policy, another voice loudly sounding off in my hea...

When you feel you have been lied to it can be very difficult to trust again. You start to believe that everyone is using manipulation tactics in order to get what THEY want. In this episode I'm talking about how I'm learning to trust again.

My conversation with Andrea Riggs, sharing some teachable moments with her teens since leaving the church 4 years ago.

Sometimes I fear I’m missing out on something but I'm realizing that the belief that others are experiencing something more enriching than me is all just an illusion. That's when the focus is on LACK and not abundance. If we choose not to look at the beauty in our own lives, then THAT is what we are really missing out on.

My friend Dusty Jacobson and I discuss the topic of the divine feminine, gender equality, and empowering women as we raise our voices together in love and unity. We reflect on our former mentality, some of the things that got us fired up in the past as we began to recognize the ways in which we felt suppressed as women. "You are being presented with a choice or remain. If you choose to remain unch...

"You promised the world and I fell for it I put you first and you adored it You set fires to my forest And you let it burn Sang off key in my chorus Cause it wasn’t yours I saw the signs and I ignored it Rose colored glasses all distorted You set fire to my purpose And I let it burn You got off on the hurtin’ When it wasn’t yours We’d always go into it blindly I needed to lose you to find me This...

Giving you an update on WHY I disappeared from podcast land for a bit, and what my plan is moving forward. Also, celebrating 5,000 members in our Mormon Enlightenment Facebook group by running a contest. Leave us a review or share the podcast on social media to be entered in the drawing. And we are going to take the winner out to dinner or send you $100 cash if you're not in Utah. Sign up for our...

OBEDIENCE... what does that mean? Is it better to choose obedience over knowledge? Doing what you are told regardless of what feels right to your soul? Obedience is a principle I’ve had to really question since stepping away from the Mormon church. What I’ve concluded is that obedience no longer fits into my moral code. Is teaching our children obedience to an authority figure really in their best...

What is the purpose of life? To pass the test? To overcome the natural man? To serve others? To multiply and replenish the 🌍? 🤔 To align ourselves with God/the Universe? To strive for perfection? To discover, remember, create...??? I believe the purpose of life is to Experience, Expand, and Express! I no longer believe I’m here to pass a test in order to receive my reward in heaven such as etern...

We felt a lot of pressure growing up in the Mormon church. In this episode we share some of the pressures we felt, as well as other former members who submitted their feedback around this topic.

Since trying to be open minded around sexuality after leaving Mormonism, I found myself questioning marriage in general. Wondering for a moment if monogamy was just another tradition we absorbed through religion, social pressures, insecurities, co-dependency, and fear of being alone. In this episode I share some of my discoveries and how I'm feeling about marriage now.

Have you ever been hurt by someone? Been rejected, turned down, left out, judged, misunderstood, or mistreated? Of course you have. We ALL have. I want to tell you about a recent experience I had that triggered a lot of anger and resentment in me. About the thoughts I chose to believe about myself and how I turned them around. Don't believe a single thought that comes when you're feeling any of th...

Everything outside of us is a reflection of our own thinking. So many of us, including myself, are giving our power away. Anytime we allow a negative comment, response, or reaction from others to upset us, we are choosing to believe a STORY, therefore causing our own suffering. Whenever we are suffering, that is our signal to STOP! Take a look at the beliefs we have attached ourselves to and evalu...

We had a few drinks and decided to record a podcast. You're welcome!

My interview with Morgan and Jared Higdon. After years of issues stacking up on Morgan's 'shelf', it suddenly came crashing down. Morgan and her husband Jared (a.k.a. Sister Jensen) started a YouTube channel called, "My Spiritual Life". In their vlogs and humorous skits, they share their perspective and problems during their transition out of the Mormon Church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter...

Emotions are just energy and all energy can be transformed. Today Sean and I talk about our anger. How we've been learning to channel that powerful energy into a constructive purpose. Why we left the church and still almost a year and a half later, "can't leave it alone". "Use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it." ~ Maya Angel...

"It was 2006 and my faith crisis was at its peak. I remember laying on my front room floor wishing the earth would swallow me up. It would be so much easier than walking this path of confusion. I knew life would never be the same again.   [side note] I was born and raised mormon. I was a good mormon girl. I did all that was expected of me. I was on the path since day one. I held all the callings,...

Being consistent and persistent in your pursuits over a long period of time will reap beautiful rewards. Determination to stick with something will eventually turn it into a habit which then requires less discipline to get yourself to do it. It becomes so much a part of your routine that you no longer deal with the internal war of deciding whether or not you are going to do it.

For those moments you feel lost, alone, depressed and scared. I want this episode to be one you can return to anytime you are triggered. One you can share with others who are fresh out and going through the most intense part of a faith transition, which in most cases, escalates into an existential crisis. Suddenly you realize everything you once THOUGHT you knew to be true, is nothing more than a...