Addressing Female Pornography Use in Relief Society | An Interview with a Former YSA Relief Society Presidency

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Leading Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 25 August 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Whitney Woodruff was shocked when President Rob Ferrell extended the call for her to serve as the stake Relief Society president in her young single adult stake. This was a calling typically reserved for older, married women with much more experience. As a young single adult herself, she solicited the help of three other incredible women; Kaylyn Crawford, Stacie Leavitt, and Kimberly Webb. In this episode, Kurt Francom discusses with them their unique approach of visiting each Relief Society in the stake to discuss the complex topic of female pornography use and how individuals can fight through the shame and get the help to overcome this temptation. Highlights 4:45 Introduction of each participant and the story of how they were called to the stake Relief Society presidency 8:30 How they began to consider addressing the issue of pornography use of those in Relief Society 15:00 How they organized and formatted their lesson about avoiding pornography to the Relief Society 18:00 What feedback was received after their lesson 21:00 How this lesson impacted their presidency 24:00 Why it is important to be direct and clear in lessons about avoiding pornography 28:00 How they prepared for the lesson 30:30 The role of priesthood leaders during this lesson 32:00 How pornography is different for women compared to men 42:30 How girls/women typically learn about pornography (especially in their developmental years) 45:20 The most important topic of the lesson, the Atonement of Jesus Christ 48:00 A powerful question to begin a discussion about pornography use with men and women 50:00 How to create safety so that individuals want to talk to someone about their pornography use and get help 58:00 Advice for male priesthood leaders to effectively approach this topic 1:03:00 How to create local resources to help women struggling with pornography 1:05:00 General encouragement for other Relief Society presidencies Links "I am a Young Single Adult Advocate" | An Interview with Rob Ferrell Protection From Pornography—a Christ-Focused Home, by Linda S. Reeves Read the TRANSCRIPT Register for the Liberating Saints Virtual Summit

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0:00.0	The plague of pornography impacts all of us in some form.
0:05.0	With the best of intentions, we try to help others break free from this evil plague
0:09.4	and often become frustrated that nothing seems to work.
0:13.0	This leads us to our next virtual summit,
0:15.2	where we have gathered some of the finest therapists,
0:17.9	authors, and experts on how to help others break free
0:21.7	from the struggle of pornography.
0:23.6	Like I said, it's a virtual conference so all can attend from anywhere in the world.
0:28.8	It all begins on September 10th, so register now by texting the word lead to 4-7-47 or visit leading Saints
0:36.7	dot org slash liberating. And here we go. Welcome back to another episode of The Leading Saints Podcast. My name is Kurt
0:45.5	Frankham. I will be your host. Now if you're new to Leading Saints, this is a podcast where
0:50.0	we talk about leadership in order to help Latter-day Saints be better prepared to lead.
0:55.1	And in this episode we have a phenomenal guest, is actually four guests, Whitney Woodruff,
1:00.7	Caylin Crawford, Stacy Levitt, and Kimberly Webb, who are all former members of a
1:05.9	YSA, that's Young Single Adult, Steak Relief Society, Presidency.
1:10.8	And they talk about their incredible approach of educating the
1:14.2	release society about the dangers of pornography and how they
1:17.2	went about doing that. You're gonna love it. You're gonna love it. Now how this came
1:20.8	about is actually from Rob Farrell which just became the most downloaded
1:25.3	episode in leading saint's history if you haven't listened to the interview with Rob Farrell please do
1:30.4	so but he mentioned during that interview as he served as a
1:33.7	YSA stake president that he had these wonderful sister serving as his
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