Real Support for Your LDS Faith Expansion Journey
Resources, conversations, and community for navigating faith transitions with integrity and psychological insight.
The Latter Day Struggles Podcast addresses beliefs and issues within the LDS faith that are challenging to talk about but vital to discuss for those trying to navigate their relationship in or around the church. Valerie and her guests invite psychological maturity, theological health, and institutional integrity.
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A Podcast for Faith Transition, Clarity & Emotional Growth
These conversations help you understand what you’re feeling and why. Psychologically informed, spiritually grounded discussions to promote healing in and around the LDS church.
You’re Here Because Your Faith Is Changing, and You Don’t Want to Do It Alone
If You’re New, Start Here
Welcome to Latter Day Struggles, these episodes will get you started on your faith expansion journey.
Reclaiming Identity & Spirituality
If you want community and psychological support on your own terms.
Navigating Faith Transitions
If you want support for navigating family and identity changes.
How to Stay Connected During Faith Changes
Tips for Parenting Through Faith Transitions
How to Successfully Navigate
Faith Differences in Marriage
eBooks
Tools & guidance for inner and outer change while navigating faith transitions.
Support Groups
Live, therapist-led groups that help you process the complexities of faith expansion.
Audio Books
Curated audio conversations that invite reflection, healing, and growth
Go Deeper with Friday Fellowship
When you enroll in Friday Fellowship, you unlock full access to Friday bonus episodes, where Valerie takes a deeper dive into:
- Transcending and Including Mormonism
- The emotional layers of faith transitions
- Difficult, often-taboo topics that deserve to be named and healed
- Spiritual growth tools rooted in psychology, boundaries, and self-trust
- Finding community support during faith transition
It’s more than content — it’s companionship for your faith journey.
Stories from Listeners Walking their own Faith Expansion Paths
Valerie has a rare gift for naming the exact pain points many of us carried silently for years within the LDS Church. Through her work, she helped me go places I was afraid to face, bringing language, compassion, and healing to anguish that had long gone unspoken. Her podcasts, courses, and textbooks have been more restorative than anything else I’ve tried—offering both deep insight and ongoing support I can return to again and again. I truly don’t know how I would have navigated my faith crisis without Valerie and Nathan’s guidance.
I was raised deeply devoted to my faith, and it was painful when sincere questions were met with oversimplified answers that caused harm rather than healing. Latter Day Struggles helped me reclaim respect for myself and release the pressure to be perfect. I was tired of feeling angry, and through the podcast and support groups I found community that gives me the words for what I experienced and helps me move forward with integrity.
I feel myself learning and growing as I listen to this podcast. I find myself judging less and I believe I care more about others through what I learn from Valerie’s podcast. I do believe she and Nathan are voices of reason, respect, accuracy, and love. I can tell that they don’t hate the church, they genuinely want to help others grow and care deeply about their work.
Explore Growth Resources for Your Journey
Tools and guidance for reclaiming spirituality, navigating faith transitions, parenting through faith shifts, and more.
Protected: Friday Fellowship 2.0 Pilot Group
Navigating Family & Faith During the Holidays
Reclaiming the Sacred After Faith Deconstruction
Meet Valerie Hamaker
Valerie is a licensed professional counselor who uses her experience and expertise as group facilitator, coach, and consultant in faith expansion, mixed-faith relationships, and high-demand religion recovery. As the creator and host of the Latter Day Struggles Podcast, she combines clinical expertise with lived experience to guide listeners through the psychological, spiritual, and relational challenges of changing belief systems.
Valerie also offers coaching, online courses, and live events for those seeking personal or relationship support outside traditional religious frameworks.
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