Owning Your Choices When Others Disagree (with Ben & Charlie)

All Out in the Open

All Out in the Open, Questions from the Closet

Latter-day Saint, Christ, Society & Culture, Mormon, Gay, Religion & Spirituality, Faith, Lgbtq, Transgender, Church Of Jesus Christ, Christianity, Lgbt, Lds

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🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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OPEN Up: Ben Schilaty and Charlie Bird dive into the challenges of making authentic, personal decisions—especially when those choices are misunderstood or rejected by others. They discuss the pain of breaking the status quo and share personal stories about navigating loneliness, rejection, and the weight of following personal revelation as LGBTQ+ members of the Church. Together, they explore the importance of setting boundaries, processing past trauma, and finding healing through community an...

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0:00.0	Welcome to All Out in the Open. I'm Ben Shalati. And I'm Charlie Bird and we are so excited for this
0:04.7	episode. This is one of our open up episodes. And today we're talking about how to own your decisions
0:09.0	when other people disagree. And it just is so relevant for I think what's happening in the space.
0:14.4	There's a lot of, it's hard when you feel like you're doing what you want, but you're
0:18.4	disappointing someone or someone's pulling away from you.
0:21.7	It's real stuff.
0:25.7	In this episode, we talk about our different experiences and you've experienced more rejection than I have.
0:26.9	But still, it's just, it's hard for everyone.
0:29.6	And I think you shared some good principles to help people in similar spaces move
0:32.7	forward.
0:32.9	Yeah.
0:33.4	And I shared the scripture that has helped me get through feeling rejected by people I love.
0:39.1	So look for it. It's pretty obvious. If you miss it, you didn't listen. But we hope you do listen. So we'll just roll right into it.
1:00.4	Okay, so a few days ago, I had this really enlightening conversation with someone I know, and they shared this Emily Dickinson poem with me. And I was like, wow, this is exactly how I've
1:06.3	been feeling. So I sent it to Ben thinking he would like love it.
1:12.5	You didn't even reply.
1:14.0	I was actually, didn't even read this?
1:14.7	I was actually whistamara.
1:15.9	I was like, oh, Charlie sent me this.
1:17.5	I was like, I read that loud to my friend.
1:19.3	And he was like, what's that about?
1:20.5	I have no idea.
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