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Come Back Podcast

After returning to the faith she was brought up in, Katie shares her experience going through a divorce and being a single mom in the church

Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone

Religion & Spirituality

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

"I will never forget my kids being dressed in all white and being brought to us at the altar. It will always be one of the most amazing moments of my life because I knew we were going to be together forever."

Come Back Team: Director, Founder & Host: Ashly Stone Producer and Senior Editor: Lauren Rose Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Editor: Michelle Berger Art Director: Jeremy Garcia

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Ashley Stone and you're listening to the Comeback Podcast.

0:07.0

I'd love to just jump in and start from the beginning. First I'd like to hear a little

0:19.1

bit of background about you you know where you live maybe a a little bit, just of context.

0:23.3

So as you're telling your story, we kind of know who you are.

0:26.3

Okay, I am in Northern California.

0:30.7

I'm in Sacramento, and I've born and raised here all my families here. I haven't

0:36.1

really traveled too much. I've just been here. I work in a hospital in my scrubs right now

0:41.6

kind of just taking over a break room to do this real

0:44.1

quick. I am just turned 46 I I'm number six of seven kids. My parents were LDS. My mom was a member. Her family goes like, I mean all of her family history is done. My dad's a convert, so I'm like like I have to do all of his I was raised in the church I would

1:07.2

say I had a very good childhood my parents were awesome they were a really good

1:10.8

balance of like my mom pushing it and my dad like you know I don't have to do you know everything and so it was a good balance we we go to church every Sunday.

1:22.5

It was kind of just expected, you know, I mean,

1:24.5

if we were sick and stuff, we had to kind of prove it,

1:27.0

you know, just like, you better be sick for the day.

1:29.8

I really didn't go to seminary.

1:31.5

I think with the older kids,'s three older kids there's my middle

1:34.8

sister Amy and then there's the three younger kids which is my sister Jenny me and

1:38.8

Tara and I feel like meeting with the three older ones she probably pushed seminary and things like that a lot more because I think my oldest brother graduated from seminary and my other brother went on the mission and then I mean by child number six which was me she was probably like you know just do what you have to do.

1:55.4

It's hard. Yeah we had a great childhood my sister Amy who's the middle child in between that the sets of three. She had cancer when she was four, so that wasn't before I was born and it damaged the left side of her heart with radiation pretty bad.

2:11.0

So she was six years older than me, as I was growing up I knew that she

2:15.8

have limits. You know I always I never thought she wouldn't live a full life but I knew like she

2:20.3

couldn't run. We would kind of have to tailor what we did, you know, to make sure she'd be okay.

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