Former Protestant Pastor, Jennifer Roach is Baptized and Became an LDS Abuse Expert | E0015

From an ordained Protestant Pastor to a passionate mental health therapist in the LDS community Jennifer Roach overcame her own traumatic experiences in high school at the hands of her church pastor and now offers her expertise to support trauma survivors.

On this episode of Let's Get Real with Stephen Jones, I sat down with Jennifer Roach, a licensed mental health Therapist and Senior Research Associate at FAIR Latter-day Saints.

She shares her personal story and research, providing invaluable perspectives on preventing abuse. Her narrative is both enlightening and poignant, serving as a guide to resilience and self-protection.

⚠️ Viewer Discretion: The content includes references to past abuse.

Watch and learn how we can collectively foster safer environments.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro | "Secrets destroy you from the inside out."
01:08 - "My Abuse happened Freshman year through Junior year.
04:00 - "I barely knew how to talk about it. . . I started college unmedicated disaster. "
05:50 - "I spent most of my 20s trying to get my feet underneath me."
06:22 - "In a million years thought I would never talk to someone in the media, but maybe that's what makes sense right now."
08:30 - "I needed to trust him to have some religious conversations too."
10:22 - "The reporter said, 'I have scriptures about Moses you don't have.'"
13:32 - "Once I started reading the Book of Mormon, my feelings started to change, like oh my goodness this might be scripture."
15:21 - "The spirit is telling me, 'Turn around your car and just go back and have a conversation with them.'"
21:40 - "The hardest question for me was the idea of a prophet. . . The idea of a man . . . setting 800 miles away making decisions about my life, I was nervous."
31:00 - "Knowing what I know now I would have still got baptized."
33:30 - " I stumbled upon an idea, and it has to do with the Boy Scouts" | Measuring how much abuse happens in what churches
42:26 - "That's the big question, what do we do? . . Background checks are not what people think they are."
45:50 - "In childhood, we say abuse is detected way more than it is reported."
50:49 - "Some people say, 'If we do mandate reporting there will be more to check on backgrounds.'"
53:37 - "We have practices that the average member has no idea are protections, but they work."
1:06:00 - "Adults think they know how kids report."
1:11:50 - "If a kid does that, you should file that away in your brain."
1:13:56 - "They hear news stories and it breaks their hearts . . . here's how I address that as someone who has been a victim of abuse."
1:16:24 - "How has redemption come for you?"
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#HealingThroughUnderstanding #TraumaAwareness #faith #abuse #mentalhealth
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Jennifer Roach Research
Fair Latter-day Saint Presentation 2023 - https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/c...
Jennifer Roach on Saints UnScripted -    • Mormon child abuse article by the AP ...  
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