David Archuleta Did Everything the LDS Church Asked. It Almost Killed Him.
You were taught that your resistance was the problem. David Archuleta did everything the church asked — for thirty years. This is what that actually looks like from the inside.Jess and Hannah use Davi...
12 Apr 0s
Why Mormon "Revelation" Arrives Right On Time
How the Mormon Church Turns Institutional Policy Into Divine Revelation — With Receipts When the church shortened sacrament meeting for Palm Sunday 2026, they called it inspired. When they reversed th...
5 Apr 40min
Your Body Kept the Score: Somatic Healing After Leaving
Why Your Body Stays Stuck in Fear After Leaving Mormonism — And What Actually Helps You've left intellectually. Done the reading. So why does your body still brace when you disappoint an authority fig...
29 Mar 0s
Healing After Leaving Mormonism — Identity, Grief, Self-Trust, Relationships, and Joy
At 17, Jess sat in sacrament meeting hiding bruises on her neck and did the math. She knew she would have to leave. This is the episode she and Hannah wish someone had handed them on the way out the d...
22 Mar 0s
Built to Stay: How Leaving Mormonism Feels Impossible
Why Leaving Mormonism Is So Hard — The Psychology of Identity, Belonging, Cognitive Dissonance, and Sunk Costs Intelligent, thoughtful people stay in the Mormon church long after encountering evidence...
15 Mar 0s
The Missionary Murder the Church and the Benson Family Buried: Elder James E. Christensen
Elder James E. Christensen was beaten for months and scalded to death in his bathtub by his mission companion in 1977. His killer, Douglas Bjelde, served zero days in prison. The case that made Hanna...
10 Mar 0s
Why Your Mormon Family Can't Hear You — Three Institutional Mechanisms That Make Listening Impossible
Your Mormon family isn't ignoring you because they don't love you. The church built three specific mechanisms that make hearing you institutionally impossible. Jess and Hannah break down the architec...
8 Mar 0s
The Psychiatrist & The Psychopath: Dr. Jess Groesbeck and The Ant Hill Kids
The Mormon Psychiatrist Who Declared a Child Killer Cured — Then Visited a Sadistic Canadian Cult Leader In 1985, Dr. C. Jess Grosbeck declared Rodney Lundberg — who had stabbed his 11-month-old son a...
1 Mar 29min
