1496: Responding to Mormon Youtuber Greg Matsen’s “Natasha Helfer Disciplinary Council Explained”
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2021
⏱️ 156 minutes
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Summary
Join us today for an important discussion! In this special Mormon Stories live stream, Carah Burrell is honored to talk with excommunicated Mormon sex therapist Natasha Helfer to discuss the criticism of her found in Cwic Media’s video about her disciplinary council. Natasha and Carah plan to go point by point to address various accusations about her intentions and hopefully foster a better understanding of what constitutes healthy sexuality for people in and out of the LDS church.
Show Notes:
- GetMormonHelp.com/Symmetry Solutions
- Mormon Sex Info podcast, hosted by Natasha Helfer
- Six Principles of Sexual Health
- Greg Matsen's YouTube video, "Natasha Helfer Disciplinary Council Explained"
- Natasha Helfer's writings on masturbation:
"My Official Stance on Masturbation," Patheos, August 6, 2012
"Neither a Sin nor a Transgression," Sunstone Magazine, November 28, 2015 - "A Parent's Guide," The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Anti-pornography campaign “Fight the New Drug”
- The American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists
- The Mormon Mental Health Association (secular, but LDS culturally competent)
- The Association of Latter-day Saint Counselors and Psychotherapists (practitioners must agree to follow the Church's teachings)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to a special edition of Mormon Stories podcast. |
| 0:05.4 | I am your host for today, Cara Borrell. |
| 0:08.8 | And if you'll notice, this is not John DeLens sitting next to me. |
| 0:12.0 | Natasha Helfer, welcome. |
| 0:13.8 | Hello, Cara. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm so glad to be here with you today. |
| 0:17.0 | We have a very exciting podcast and episode scheduled for today. |
| 0:22.0 | I want to first let Natasha introduce herself and then I will kind of go through the topic |
| 0:27.4 | that I thought that we could dive into today. |
| 0:30.2 | Natasha, who are you? |
| 0:31.5 | What do you do? |
| 0:32.5 | Give everyone a brief snippet about your history. |
| 0:34.7 | Okay. |
| 0:35.7 | So I'm Natasha Helfer. |
| 0:36.7 | I am a licensed marriage and family therapist. |
| 0:40.2 | I've been practicing for almost 25 years now. |
| 0:43.6 | The majority of that time being within kind of the Mormon LDS population across the spectrum |
| 0:49.6 | of what we might call belief or post-belief. |
| 0:54.0 | Work a lot with mixed faith marriages, faith transitions, issues of sexuality, regular |
| 0:59.4 | things too, like depression, parenting, anxiety, issues, etc. |
| 1:03.7 | And let's see. |
| 1:04.7 | I'm also a certified sex therapist with an organization called Asect, the American Association |
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