Episode 219: Embracing Your Journey | A Conversation with Linda Hamilton

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Religion & Spirituality, Feminism, Motherhood, Ldswomen, Spirituality, Lds, Thechurchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaints, Mormonwomen, Religion, Marriage, Mormon, Faith

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Linda Hamilton explains, “I spent my whole life believing that spirituality was in big things. Visions from heaven, angels, signs. We always say in Mormonism, don't wait for a sign. You won't get a sign; you won't get a miracle. We say that...and then we go up in testimony meeting and talk about some sign we received." She describes having spent much of her youth wondering how to get things like signs, or a surefire testimony. "And now," she says, "I've really embraced [that] spirituality is small things. It's yoga, it's going for a walk, it's my cats, it's going to a Taylor Swift concert and feeling in communion with thousands of women." In Episode 219, Linda joins Susan and Cynthia for a conversation about where she’s been, what she’s learned, and how her experiences inform the path she’s walking now.

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0:00.0	I think a really other big part of it was realizing that I didn't need the church to be true anymore, nor did I need it to be untrue.
0:12.5	It just sort of exists.
0:15.5	Right.
0:16.4	Wow.
0:16.8	That has been a huge shift for me because my testimony is that Jesus Christ loves us and we should
0:24.4	love one another.
0:27.5	Hi, I am Cynthia Winward.
0:29.7	And I'm Susan Hinkley.
0:31.5	And this is at last she said it.
0:33.7	We are women of faith discussing complicated things.
0:36.8	The title of today's episode is
0:38.9	Embracing Your Journey, A Conversation with Linda Hamilton. Welcome, Linda. Hi, Linda. Hi. We're so
0:48.2	grateful to have you here today to talk about how you have embraced your journey. And can you
0:53.3	just give us a quick little bio? We'll get
0:55.6	into the meat and potatoes in a little bit. But tell us who you are, where you live, what you want
1:00.4	our audience to know to kind of preface this conversation. All right. Well, I am a California
1:08.1	girl through and through. I was born and raised in Southern California.
1:13.6	I was a pretty good Mormon girl, got married young, but I got really lucky.
1:20.0	I married Amazing Man, who is very supportive, willing to grow and change with me.
1:25.2	And we've been through all sorts of things on this journey together.
1:28.2	We have four kids, ages 13 to six. And they are actually all named after Beatles songs. That is our
1:35.3	family fun fact. Can we hear the, can we hear those names? Yeah, I want to know. Yeah. We have Jude,
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