We like to throw rocks at the people who don't see the world in the way we do.

I don't know why.

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Hello everyone and welcome back to part two of my warmest stories interview with Tim Burton.

Tim Burton is a licensed professional counselor and licensed marriage with family therapist.

He has a ton of experience dealing with abuse and childhood abuse

and you can go to his preamble in the first episode to hear all his experiences and credentials.

We just spent a good hour, hour and twenty minutes talking about LDS policies and teachings

and how they can be harmful and helpful.

Now we're going to turn to a blog post that you recently made.

I believe it was on Natasha Helfer Parker's blog, is that right?

Yes. Natasha was kind enough to host that blog post on her site.

And it's basically called how the church approaches abuse the professional response

because recently here in 2018 the LDS church put out a resource on its Mormon newsroom

for professionals and for the public and for the media entitled How the Church Process Abuse.

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