1304: Mormon Faith Crisis Retreat Pt. 7 - Healthy Sexuality After a Faith Transition
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Five years years ago, upon completing my Psychology Ph.D., I began holding retreats and workshops to support Mormons in faith crisis, and specifically to help reduce anxiety, depression, suicidality, family strife, and unnecessary divorce for those experiencing a Mormon Faith Crisis. For many of these workshops and retreats, I was fortunate to co-present with Natasha Helfer Parker and Margi Dehlin.
In August of 2019 we decided to hold a weekend retreat and record the entire experience ,including the attendee participation. This is that retreat, which was held from 8/30 to 9/1/2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah. 40 audience members participated. The following topics were addressed:
- Understanding and Navigating a Religious Transition
- Fundamentals of Mental Health in a Religious Transition
- The Key to Healthy Relationships: Emotional Intimacy
- Healthy Sexuality After a Faith Transition
- Conscious Parenting
- Communicating with Believing Family and Friends
We hope you enjoy this content. It is the best insight we can share to help you navigate your religious transition.
Finally, a HUGE thanks goes to Clint and Jeni Martin for underwriting this event.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Alright, so, um, well two initial thoughts first is let's talk about sex baby. |
| 0:14.3 | Let's talk about you and me. |
| 0:17.1 | That's number one thought. |
| 0:18.6 | Number two thought is this is going to be a quickie. |
| 0:22.9 | Oh, it's about 55 minutes so that's about 45 minutes longer than most. |
| 0:37.1 | Alright, alright that's enough of that. |
| 0:48.8 | So I always start off my sex talks with a few disclosures because I think sexuality is |
| 0:54.2 | a fairly sensitive topic and so we just want to kind of be on the same page. |
| 0:58.2 | I feel like it's more successful if we're all kind of having good expectations of what |
| 1:03.4 | to expect, like sexual contracting. |
| 1:07.2 | So in a way that's what I'm doing with you today. |
| 1:10.9 | I think this is, you know, not a presentation that covers sexual trauma. |
| 1:15.7 | Do you want me to click there and I'll just do them both. |
| 1:18.1 | Okay. |
| 1:19.1 | Oh, you're doing bills. |
| 1:21.1 | Yep, sorry about that. |
| 1:24.1 | Okay. |
| 1:25.1 | This is not a presentation that really covers sexual trauma and yet sexual trauma is a huge |
| 1:31.4 | part of our human story. |
| 1:33.7 | It affects at least a third of us. |
| 1:35.8 | Doesn't matter if you're male or female and that those numbers are conservative, okay? |
| 1:41.8 | Because there's still a lot of stigma and taboo and even people being able to talk about |
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