This podcast was recorded with some technical & emotional difficulties. Ashlynn had found out her partner of 5 years was cheating on her on her way to this recording. The message is still a beautiful one worth sharing, hope you can hang with us despite how it sounds.
Heather Holmgren is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and founder of Simple Modern Therapy, a therapist collective in Salt Lake City specializing in relationships, LGBTQ+ affirming care, and faith transition.
Over a 20+ year career, she's developed a clinical framework for understanding what high-control religious systems do to identity, attachment, and the capacity to know yourself - and built a public following on Instagram by giving clinical language to experiences that ex-Mormons and people in faith transition have carried without words for years. S he grew up in rural Northern Utah inside majority religion and majority culture. She knows from the inside what it costs to belong to something that requires you to stop being yourself, and what it takes to build a life on the other side.
Find her HERE & HERE
Ashlynn Mitchell is the voice behind This Is Ashlynn, where she tells the truth about relationships, reinvention, midlife, and becoming wildly more yourself.
A former cohost of the top 10 podcast The Betrayed, The Addicted & The Expert, Ashlynn has spent more than a decade helping people navigate betrayal, divorce, and starting over. Now she’s sharing the story she never expected to live: her own true-crime romance.
With humor, honesty, and zero interest in pretending she has it all figured out, Ashlynn explores what happens when you trust yourself, reclaim your voice, and build a life that actually feels like yours.
Find her at thisisashlynn.com & @this.isashlynn
