Margi Dehlin’s THRIVE Story - Coming Home to Myself - 1547

Margi Dehlin’s appearance on Mormon Stories Podcast episode 1547 marks something rare in the documentation of Mormon faith transitions: a detailed, first-person autopsy of how religious orthodoxy consumes female identity. As the inaugural installment of the “THRIVE Stories” series, her narrative tracks what she calls “coming home to myself,” a journey that required dismantling the very structures Mormon culture had presented as salvation. For researchers and members alike, her account offers a granular look at the psychological architecture of Mormon womanhood.

Background: The THRIVE Series and the Mormon Gender Experiment

The THRIVE series, hosted by John Dehlin alongside Margi, emerged to fill a persistent gap in post-Mormon discourse. While countless episodes have tackled historical discrepancies and doctrinal contradictions, fewer have examined the practical reconstruction of life after belief. Margi’s story anchors the series in the lived reality of prescribed gender roles.

She entered marriage at age 22, armed with a master’s degree in English and a brief college window where she had touched something like autonomous selfhood. Then the machinery engaged