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Thank you. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Latter Day Struggles. This is your host, Valerie. And I am so excited to be here. We are actually at the end of a, oh my goodness think it's an eight part series that we have been

doing for the last little while diving deeply into something that is very near and dear to my

heart i am not only a podcaster but i'm also a therapist and i have come to really spend a lot

of time in my healing work running groups.

And this is something that everyone that goes to graduate school to become a therapist

is going to take a class in group work.

And as I've mentioned before, this is not something that I really anticipated being a big

part of my career on the ground. And yet as life has

unfolded, this has become maybe one of the more important and sacred parts of the work that I do.

It is a way that I get to maximize my ability to have face-to-face interactions with people

who hear me and who are also able to connect

with one another in this healing space connected to faith, expansion, growth, and development

here connected to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as we are together,

learning how to be a more healthy community. And to be a healthy, large community,

what we are coming to realize is sometimes we do better when we are in small communities

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