1420: Natasha Helfer’s Apostasy Trial for Sexual Health Advocacy
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2021
⏱️ 196 minutes
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Summary
Please join us now as we interview Marriage and Sex therapist Natasha Helfer as she discusses her pending Mormon disciplinary council for apostasy.
- Write letters of support to President Stephen Daley,
- Attend the council itself as an "approved" participant or in a more general way (details below),
- Sign a mental health professional letter that is currently being drafted (if this is your profession) - please contact Lisa Butterworth to sign this, and
- Spread the word on social media.
- Derby, Kansas Stake President: Stephen Daley: [email protected]
- Natasha Helfer, LCMFT, CST, CST-S: [email protected]
- Lisa Butterworth, LCPC, NCC: [email protected]
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host, |
| 0:04.7 | John DeLin. It is April 13th, 2021 and this is a somber, a sad and hopefully an empowering |
| 0:14.4 | moment in sort of the modern Mormon era. I'm John DeLin. This is my partner, Margie. |
| 0:21.7 | Thanks for joining us, Margie. And we're recording and broadcasting live from Mormon Stories |
| 0:27.9 | podcast studios in holiday Utah. And we are here to support and listen to and hear from one of |
| 0:36.1 | the most beloved people that we know. Her name is Natasha Helfer. Hello Natasha. Hi, John and Margie. |
| 0:42.8 | Thank you. We're so glad you're here. We're so honored to be a part of this, even though it's |
| 0:49.6 | not the best of circumstances. But we're here because Natasha Helfer on Easter Sunday, 2021, |
| 0:57.0 | Natasha Helfer received word from her state president in Kansas that she would be called into what I'm |
| 1:04.6 | going to call a disciplinary council. Other people will call it other things. The church has changed |
| 1:10.3 | the name on these sorts of things. But because I think of banana, a syllabinana, even if you call it |
| 1:15.4 | a thingable Bob, an excommunication is still an excommunication, even if you call it the withdrawal |
| 1:20.6 | of membership, whatever they call it these days or a membership council. So I'm going to call a |
| 1:25.0 | disciplinary council. I'm going to call an excommunication. But we're here because Natasha Helfer has been |
| 1:30.5 | advocating for healthy sexuality within Mormonism for well over a decade. She started out as the |
| 1:36.7 | Mormon therapist. And from the beginning, she has been fighting for families, fighting for LGBT people, |
| 1:43.5 | fighting for youth, fighting to normalize healthy sexuality and fighting against unhealthy sexual |
| 1:49.9 | stigma and shame for married couples for individuals for masturbation for LGBTQ individuals for trans |
| 1:57.3 | individuals. And she has been on the front lines in so many ways. But in addition to that, she's |
| 2:03.0 | been a dear friend of our family. She has been there for us, for our children, for me and Margie, |
| 2:09.4 | in countless ways. She has led dozens and dozens of workshops and retreats for mixed faith couples, |
| 2:15.0 | for people in faith crisis. She's the host of Mormon Mental Health podcast. She is the creator |
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