Lunch and Learn: When Reality Hits Close to Home- The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives & Managing Multiple Identity Intersections

When Reality Hits Close to Home- The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives & Managing Multiple Identity Intersections

Dr. Kimberly Applewhite, PsyD and Dr. Lashawn Williams, LCSW

What can reality tv teach us about who we are and what we value? And for Mormon-adjacent people reacting to the new Secret Lives of a Mormon Housewives, could we be entering a new “Mormon moment”? Join Dr. Williams and Dr. Applewhite for a discussion on what we learn when religious identity intersects with media discourse, and what we as therapists can do to facilitate religious identity exploration in functional context with the era of reality television.