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Cultivating Joy Amid Trauma: Gospel Study with Katie Rich

September 8, 2024

How does trauma impact memory? What are some things we can do to encourage remembering the things that are most important to us? How can we use memory triggers to cultivate joy in a body that keeps the score? Katie Rich explores these questions and more in this Gospel Study lesson.

Katie Ludlow Rich is a writer and independent scholar of Mormon women’s history. Her work focuses on centering women’s voices and their agentive decisions even when functioning within a patriarchal tradition. She has a bachelor’s in history and a master’s in English, both from Brigham Young University. Her work has appeared in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, the Journal of Mormon History, and she is the co-writer of Fifty Years of Exponent II, newly released from Signature Books. She lives in Saratoga Springs, Utah.