A brief introduction to me

I’ll start this journey with some basic facts about myself and what I am aiming to achieve with this blog. I was born a 3rd generation, female, Mormon in 1985. Some of you will know that means everyone, your whole family, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents also practice Mormonism, and that usually means wholeheartedly and unquestionably. I was born to loving and generous parents in England. Even though as I have grown into my own version of myself, my feelings and opinions towards my parents have changed somewhat.

I was always a little different to my family and church friends, like something didn’t quite fit. My mum likes to tell the story of introducing a blue eyed, golden haired two year old to a new church member, and how I chastised her for calling me sweet. Oh how fast I was to correct her that “i am not sweet!” I obviously do not remember this but the story has stayed with me, maybe even then I was destined for more but my path was already laid out the minute I was born.

I want to share my secrets, my feelings and experiences as things happened to me and my friends.

Now I am a parent, I have chosen a new path, but what I am searching for is still a mystery, me, who am I? Who should I be? Sweet me or tough me? Can I be both? How much of my feelings, reactions and choices are a reflection of my experiences in the church? This is what I intend to find out, and if you want to, please take the journey with me, I know I cannot be alone in feeling this way.