A Mormon faith crisis is rarely a sudden decision. It's a gradual process of discovering information the church knew and didn't share — inside a system engineered to make every question feel like a moral failure. A Mormon faith crisis is rarely sudden. It's discovering information the church knew and withheld — inside a system that makes every question feel like a moral failure.
Common triggers: the full scope of Joseph Smith's polygamy; the DNA evidence against the Book of Mormon; the Book of Abraham papyri identified as a common funeral text; the November 2015 LGBTQ policy and its 41-month reversal; the $150 billion investment portfolio. Hannah walks through Dr. Marlene Winnell's five recovery phases from Leaving the Fold — Separation, Confusion, Avoidance, Intense Mixed Feelings, and Rebuilding — nonlinear, always beginning before the previous phases are complete. In Mormon culture you don't just lose a religion. You lose your community, your identity, and a cosmology with charts and diagrams for planetary rulership. Life on the other side: you get your Sundays back, your 10% back, and eventually — the question "what do I want?" For many, that question is revolutionary.
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