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Real Life After the LDS Mission

Real Life After the LDS Mission

Di: Elizabeth Amorino & Rosemay Webster
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Transitioning home from a mission is one of the most meaningful and surprisingly complicated experiences in an LDS family’s life. Returned missionaries often feel lost, overwhelmed, or unsure of their identity. Moms feel the weight too: wanting to support, guide, and understand their missionary while also navigating their own worries, hopes, and expectations.

This podcast is here to make that transition easier for both of you.

Each week, we tackle the real questions moms are asking:
“How do I help my missionary adjust emotionally?”

“What do I say when they seem stuck, unmotivated, or withdrawn?”
“How do I strengthen our relationship without overstepping?”
“How do I handle my own worry, confusion, or disappointment?”

We also speak directly to the struggles returned missionaries face but don’t always know how to talk about, identity shifts, self-confidence, mental health, decision fatigue, spiritual transitions, loneliness, and the pressure to “be the same person they were in the field.”

But this podcast isn’t just about problems it’s about solutions backed by research, real-life experience, and compassionate, Christ-centered support.

You’ll learn:
✨ Practical communication skills that actually work at home
✨ Tools to rebuild confidence, purpose, and motivation
✨ Ways to create emotional safety and connection during the transition
✨ Strategies for managing worry, expectations, and family dynamics
✨ How to navigate school, work, dating, and spiritual growth - without pressure
✨ Simple ways to strengthen your relationship with your RM

We know first hand how challenging this transition can be because we’ve lived it.

Rose, a therapist with years of clinical experience, has supported countless missionaries as they navigate coming home, reentering “real life,” and adjusting to new emotional and spiritual landscapes.

Elizabeth, a mom of a returned missionary, has witnessed the mix of joy, confusion, and change that comes with welcoming your child home. Through her service on a stake council, she has heard dozens of missionaries share their stories each one unique, tender, and deeply meaningful.

Together, our experiences have ignited a shared desire to support returned missionaries and their moms with tools that actually help, conversations that heal, and guidance that lifts instead of overwhelms.

If you’re a mom who wants to understand, support, and truly connect with your returned missionary; or a missionary wanting to feel seen and anchored again; you’re in the right place.

This transition doesn’t have to feel lonely, confusing, or heavy. Together lets learn, love and let God lead us.

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Episodi
  • 006 I When Faith Feels Fragile: How to Support Your Missionary Through Doubt

    006 I When Faith Feels Fragile: How to Support Your Missionary Through Doubt
    Jan 25 2026

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    • Why faith questions commonly emerge during or after missionary service
    • How faith development frameworks can help normalize spiritual questioning without prescribing outcomes
    • What strengthens connection—and what unintentionally creates distance—during belief differences
    • How mothers can remain grounded in their own faith while honoring their child’s agency
    • Why relationship safety matters more than certainty during seasons of spiritual change
    Referenced Works & Frameworks:
    • Brian D. McLaren, Faith After Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It A developmental framework describing how many people move through stages of faith, doubt, and reintegration, emphasizing compassion, humility, and integrity rather than fear or coercion.
    • Patrick Q. Mason, Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt Explores how belief, doubt, and belonging interact in modern religious life, especially within the Latter-day Saint tradition, and why questions do not disqualify faith or devotion.
    • David B. Ostler, Bridges: Ministering to Those Who Question Offers practical and relational guidance for supporting loved ones who question their faith, focusing on empathy, listening, and preserving connection over debate or correction.
    • James W. Fowler, Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning A foundational theory describing faith as a lifelong process of meaning-making and trust, rather than a fixed set of beliefs, helping normalize spiritual development across the lifespan.
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    22 min
  • 005 I Life Skills After the Mission: The Basics and How to Teach Them Without Lecturing

    005 I Life Skills After the Mission: The Basics and How to Teach Them Without Lecturing
    Jan 18 2026

    Returned missionaries often need support rebuilding everyday life skills after leaving a structured environment. In this episode, we explore which basics commonly need re-teaching and how moms can teach them without lecturing, nagging, or damaging connection.

    In this episode:

    • Why missions don’t translate directly to adult life skills
    • What basics often need re-learning
    • A respectful coaching approach instead of lecturing

    If you’re a mom navigating this in-between season, this episode will give you practical tools and peace of mind. Join the Returned Missionary Moms Facebook Community
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    11 min
  • 004 I 5 Truths About Missionary Culture Shock & Why “Just Get Back Into Life” Isn’t Helping

    004 I 5 Truths About Missionary Culture Shock & Why “Just Get Back Into Life” Isn’t Helping
    Jan 12 2026

    Returned missionaries often struggle with reverse culture shock and pressure to “move on” can make it worse. In this episode, we explore five truths about post-mission adjustment and why understanding matters more than urgency.

    In this episode:

    • What reverse culture shock really is
    • Why pushing forward backfires
    • How moms can support healing and re-engagement

    If you’re a mom longing to help your child re-enter life with confidence and peace, this episode is for you.

    Join the Returned Missionary Moms Facebook Community
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    13 min
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