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Leading Saints Podcast

How Connection Can Improve Your Ward’s Mental Health | An Interview with Geoff Steurer

Leading Saints Podcast

Leading Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Geoff Steurer is a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice in St. George, Utah, with over 20 years of experience. He is the co-author of Love You, Hate the Porn: Healing a Relationship Damaged by Virtual Infidelity and the host of the weekly podcast, "From Crisis to Connection". He has produced workbooks, audio programs, and online courses helping couples and individuals heal from the impact of sexual betrayal, unwanted pornography use, partner betrayal trauma, and rebuilding broken trust. He received a bachelors in communications studies from Brigham Young University and a masters in marriage and family therapy from Auburn University, and maintains a private counseling practice in beautiful Southern Utah. Geoff has served as a bishop, on the high council, a young men's president, and currently serves as the gospel doctrine teacher in his ward. He's been married for 25 years to Jody Young Steurer and they are the parents of four children. Highlights 6:00 Why Geoff chose to talk about healthy attachment for the virtual summit because connection and attachment are within our realm of control 8:20 Making space for attachment Recognizing that attachment matters 10:15 Connection and individuality are not either/or; they both matter for our psychological well-being The messages of individuality as the source of happiness have pushed our culture in that direction, but the research says the web of relationships is vital 14:45 Adam & Eve: from the beginning we have known it is not good to be alone 18:25 The tendency to send away people who are lonely: people just need to be witnessed 20:40 It's the relationship that matters. 75-80% of what affects change in therapy is the relationship between the therapist and client 23:00 A leader or therapist cannot always be there. There are always people who care and can be part of their life if we get creative. The Church has a built-in system to create healthy relationships and attachments that can help people feel included; it's part of our baptismal commitment 27:45 There are opportunities beyond the ministering program for us to connect with others; the surface relationships can go deeper and we are all looking for that 34:30 A summary of attachment science 41:25 Marriage isn't the solution to loneliness for single adults 42:20 Exercises for calling on attachments and creating connection even when alone; our system is designed to store those bonding moments 48:00 Reaching out to an old friend 49:45 How to leverage attachment As individuals: take the risk to connect to others 55:55 In our families: children are a mix of dependency and a need to be independent; parents need to support both 58:40 Children will thrive even in the messiness: just show up and support people 1:00:30 In the Church: we have opportunities to connect with people who we would not otherwise be part of our lives Don't overcomplicate with organization: See people as people and connect with them 1:05:25 Start by recognizing your own comfort level with connection Links GeoffSteurer.com Trust Building Academy Read the TRANSCRIPT of this podcast. Note: This transcript was machine-produced. We would be grateful for help correcting errors. You can help! Simply copy/paste the transcript text into a document, make the corrections, and then copy/paste the corrected text into a comment on the page (below) and we will get the corrected text published!

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Hey everyone. I want to let you know about an upcoming virtual

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conference that you've got to check out in an effort to bring more thoughtful

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dialogue to the topic of mental health in the Latter-day Saint context?

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The leading Saints team has put together the Mentally Healthy Saints Virtual Summit.

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We have interviewed 20 plus individuals with expertise or real life experience related to so many

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mental health topics including anxiety, depression, eating disorders, ADHD, and

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even scruppolosity. We will discuss all these topics as they relate to the

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Latter-day Saint-Faith experience and how we can all come together to better

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minister to those who struggle with mental health. It's free to attend

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virtually and you gotta join us.

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For more details on the topics that we will cover during the summit and to register for free,

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text the word lead to 474747 or visit Leading Saints.org

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slash mental health.

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Again, text the word lead to 4747 or visit Leading Saints.

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Or visit Leading Saints.

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Or, slash mental health. My name is Aaron Hubbard.

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I'm the Bishop of the Sun Valley Ward in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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I love leading Saints because it prepares me

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as Bishop to have difficult conversations

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with the members of our ward.

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It has taught me what are some of the problems and struggles that the members can be having and it's

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provided me resources and information to better support the members in our ward.

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