Guest Post: Just to be Clear
Content Warning: Suicide Guest post by Green “Several parents have said they no longer want to send their children here or donate to the school.” – Jeffery R. Holland, speech from the 2021 University...
Tagged: mental health
What I Learned when I Joined a Latter-day Saint Emotional Resilience Group
After a year of pandemic quarantines, I was feeling emotionally drained. So when my stake of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints (LDS) announced that they would be hosting emotional resilience groups, I...
Not A Victim
V- is- for- victim that’s good enough for meV- is- for victim that’s good enough for meV- is for victim that’s good enough for meVictim… Victim… VictimStarts with V(sung in the key of C-is...
From the Backlist: Thoughts on Disciplinary Council for Natasha Helfer
Risa: As a fellow mental health professional I’m exceedingly alarmed that a Stake President would take it upon himself to discipline a mental health therapist practicing within ethical guidelines using research-based evidence and modalities to...
Mental Health Professionals in Support of Natasha Helfer
The following letter was written in collaboration with over 20 people and coordinated by Lisa Butterworth, LCPC. It has now been signed by hundreds of mental health professionals. Mental Health Professionals who support Natasha...
Blessing for the Undernurtured Child Within
Dear Sister ______, I give you a blessing for the undernurtured child inside. For too long you have clung to the lie that perfectionism would protect you. You let it tear at your self...
Silver Linings
This has been such a strange time. Every person has been affected in various ways. I still wake up feeling like I am in some sort of apocalyptic movie, but I am surprised at...
Cast Away, Together Alone
I am on a capsizing ship but there is no lifeboat, I sink . I clamor to swim and those in the lifeboats tell me that if I just swim hard enough I could...
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