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February 2016

February 06, 2016

Voices from Child Abuse Survivors – Day 3

For whatever reason, an article that was published by the Church in 2010 titled Effectiveness of...

February 03, 2016

Voices from Child Abuse Survivors – Day 2

For whatever reason, an article that was published by the Church in 2010 titled Effectiveness of...

February 02, 2016

Voices from Child Abuse Survivors – Day 1

For whatever reason, an article that was published by the Church in 2010 titled Effectiveness...

January 2016

January 31, 2016

Suicide Awareness and Prevention: 10 Things We All Can Do

It's one thing to advocate for awareness of the discrimination against LGBTQ members that is...

January 28, 2016

Double Binds Hurt Us

The Deseret News published a lengthy article today, LDS Church Leaders Mourn Reported Deaths in...

January 20, 2016

Guest Post re LGBT Policy

The following is published with permission and written by Wiktoria Heinz, MD. Dr. Heinz is...

January 12, 2016

Why Pour Salt in Wounds?

I am once again left confused and flabbergasted as we see the continual insistence by...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

How do we Support our Gay Teen?

Our teenager has come out to us as possibly being gay. We are pretty sure...

November 2015

November 25, 2015

Making Sense of the Research on Homosexuality

I was recently invited to be one of the panelists on a Mormon Matters Podcast episode...

November 16, 2015

When What is Normal is Declared Sin

I have made many points as to why I take the stances I do in...

November 14, 2015

Now We’re Blaming the Victims?

Michael Otterson recently wrote an article for LDS Newsroom, Understanding the Handbook where he states:...

November 13, 2015

Clarification is Deficient

The First Presidency came out with a 'clarification' letter today regarding the policies that were released...

November 12, 2015

Families Post #5

These stories are very personal and can be emotionally and psychologically triggering. Anonymous Last night...

November 12, 2015

Families Post #4

These stories are very personal and can be emotionally and psychologically triggering. Alyssa Carlson Paquette...

November 10, 2015

Families Post #3

These stories are very personal and can be emotionally and psychologically triggering. Posted Anonymously My...

November 06, 2015

Mama Dragons Respond to Harmful Announcement

I have permission to publish the following official response drafted by the Mama Dragons Board:...

October 2015

October 15, 2015

SAMHSA Takes Groundbreaking Position on Conversion Therapy

SAMHSA took an historic position today by releasing the following publication: SAMHSA: Ending Conversion Therapy...

July 2015

July 01, 2015

Compassion Called For Please while Reading of the “Letter”

This has been a historical week for those in the United States - with the...

February 2015

February 01, 2015

Respecting Agency in Parenting

I love the following from Chieko N. Okazaki. What wise wisdom from one of our...

August 2014

August 26, 2014

How do I teach my kids about pornography?

How do you teach your kids about the bad that pornography can do but not...

April 2014

April 02, 2014

New Podcasts

Please check out the latest podcasts over at Mormon Mental Health which share some extremely important...

February 2014

February 13, 2014

New Podcasts Available

There are two new podcasts up on Mormon Mental Health: Powerful Puberty: How Self-Care of...

November 2013

November 08, 2013

Advocating for Your Gay Mormon Family Member

I recently had the opportunity to interview Wendy and Tom Montgomery and their two children,...

September 2013

September 16, 2013

I am cutting myself…

I am the only person in my family who believes in the lds church. I...

August 2013

August 17, 2013

Teaching about Chastity to the Youth

This is an email I wrote in reply to the Young Women's presidency in my...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Part of Panel on Mormon Matters re Virtue

I was recently involved on a panel discussion over at Mormon Matters regarding "virtue." Here...

August 2012

August 25, 2012

Great Book for Boys

A long time ago, somebody asked me if I knew any books out there written...

December 2011

December 02, 2011

Teen Masturbation

I have a question about my son having a hard time not taking long showers...

September 2011

September 22, 2011

Resources for Teen Sexual Education?

Natasha - thanks for a great blog. My husband and I have a toddler son,...

May 2010

May 11, 2010

Do my siblings know I masturbated?

Here is an answer I gave to someone who was not comfortable posting their question...