Leaving The Mormon Church - Alyssa Witbeck Alexander | Deep Drinks Podcast #13

🌱LINKTREE: linktr.ee/deepdrinks Alyssa Witbeck Alexander is a writer currently studying a master of fine arts in creative non-fiction writing at the University of Montana. Alyssa is an ex-Mormon with a heart-rending & touching story. Alyssa has a strong interest in the relationship between institutional and personal truth. Alyssa is working on her full-length memoir, but today you will get a bit of a sneak peek at Alyssa’s Journey.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Coming Up
0:59 Welcome
2:49 What Is Mormonism?
11:10 Growing Up Mormon
19:06 Religion From The Outside
22:47 Strange Mormon Beliefs
35:55 Getting Married in Salt Lake Temple
41:00 Abusive Marriage
1:03:36 Questioning Faith
1:15:44 Getting Married
1:26:24 Losing Faith
1:33:07 First Sins (Coffee, Wine)
1:39:01 Personal Truth v Institutional Truth
1:48:55 Questions & Answers
2:09:35 Outro

[@MichaelGranado1]

Really enjoyed this, thanks.

[@DeepDrinks]

Glad you liked it, I really enjoyed this one and it’s great to see someone like Alyssa come out such a hard shift in belief and still be respectful and kind when talking about her previous world view.

[@ebudworth]

Fairly new to your channel, but I was drawn to this video because I used to be mormon.
One part that I experienced and another ex-mormon experienced was the lack of understanding that there were other religions. As in, the existence of other religions didnt seem to exist in our minds.
I recall at one point when I was very young being friends with a non-mormon christian, and having a conversation with him trying to understand the difference between mormon and non-mormon christianity, and was unable to find a difference (I dont know how the mormon exclusive beliefs weren't brought up) and I determined that this wasn't another religion, just the same religion under a slightly different name.
I had had some issues with the religion, I thought a lot of the beliefs and stories were BS, but if everybody believes it then I thought I must be failing to understand something.
Then, in middle school U.S. history, my teacher was discussing something and mentioned something that conflicted with what I was taught (I dont recall the specifics, it was forever ago). I tried correcting him and he said, "well, thats what mormons believe" and then he continued on. For me, it was like loosening the rock that starts the avalanche. If this was what mormons believe, then that means there are non-mormons that don't believe this. This led me to looking at other religions and slowly realizing that my initial assessment wasn't far off.
It took me a long time to fully consider myself an athiest, and then progressing from there (I understand what I don't believe, but what do I believe). Many mormon habits persisted well after my deconversion. While I started my separation at age 12, I didnt start using "swear words" until I was 18/19, I didn't start drinking until I was 27, and I didn't start drinking coffee until I was 28/29.
It feels crazy how lasting an effect the church had on me, despite me exiting from it relatively early.
Thank you for this video! So far I've enjoyed every video of yours that I've watched.

[@DeepDrinks]

Thank you and thanks for sharing. I relate to some of your experiences.

[@Sylvia754]

thanks Dave for this story and thanks for sharing Alyssa, so good to hear . Time for a naughty coffee lol

[@DeepDrinks]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@ignaciojvargas]

A mormon therapist is craaazy, lmao what does he know

[@IrishHoopers]

This is so unbelievably disturbing

[@DeepDrinks]

I know right

[@martinnyberg9295]

4:47 He died 1844, so the “revelations” was in the late 1820s, right? Smith was riding the New York wave of “the second great awakening” to start his grift. 🐳🐳🐳

[@DeepDrinks]

True!!!! I never even thought about that. 🐳🐳🐳