Meet Chris Davis
Chris Davis
Author, Speaker, Mentor, Chris Davis Proud
SESSION | Breakout Session Three (Afternoon)
Bust Out of Your Britches!
HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU BEEN TOLD YOU WERE TOO BIG FOR YOUR BRITCHES?
Women are socialized to stay small and quiet in a world that demands big and loud, to be noticed. Let's challenge the ways we show up, and explore more meaningful avenues that bring greater fulfillment and increased satisfaction. Our foremothers would want us to choose paths that don't girdle our passions, but allow for free expression and discovery. Then they would want us to pass that empowerment on to our daughters.
ABOUT CHRIS
Chris Davis was a lifelong devout Mormon who checked all the expected boxes of wife, mother, teacher, leader, follower, and believer until 2020 when she left her family and her church to find her purpose and live her truth.
In Worthy: The Memoir of an Ex-Mormon Lesbian, Davis tells her story of growing up in a Mormon household in Maine. Her nostalgic and sometimes humorous childhood memories of family and friends provide life lessons that influence her during the traumatic experiences she has as a woman and as a closeted queer person in the church. It isn’t until one of her children comes out that Davis is forced to choose between religion and family. She chooses love.
Currently, you can find Chris cruising up and down the State of Maine in her orange Subaru, sharing her hopeful message of empowerment with women who were also told they were too big for their britches.