Category: Self Mastery
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Bridging the Gap: Understanding Adulthood in Relationships
Bridging the Gap: Understanding Adulthood in Relationships In the journey of life, few transitions are as mystifying and silently challenging as the leap from adolescence to…
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Embracing Wholeness: Understanding Resistance and Enhancing Intimacy in LDS Relationships
EMBRACING WHOLENESS: UNDERSTANDING RESISTANCE AND ENHANCING INTIMACY IN LDS RELATIONSHIPS Introduction Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, famed for his invaluable insights into…
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Its Not Your Fault: When Couples Counseling and Coaching Doesn’t Work
You’re not a failure, and it’s not your fault. Even if you and your partner have consulted the best relationship coaches and marriage therapists, it’s not your fault that intimacy didn’t improve or faded over time. It’s tempting to point fingers or take the blame, but the reality is that more often than not, couples…
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The Ideal and the Real: a Reading of Genesis 38 and Judah
Guest post by: Tyson Yapias All right, fellow Latter-day Saints, let’s have a talk about sexual sins and how we react to them. This is all brought on by this week’s Come Follow Me lesson on Alma 39, which has been used as the preeminent scriptural text on how serious sexual sins are. I’m…
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“Don’t Touch” — Summary
Why This Article As an active Latter-day Saint marriage and family therapist, I have worked with many clients who have struggled for many years with pornography and masturbation. At the same time, most of my couples work involves a need to cultivate increasing desire. The current approaches of reading more scriptures, prayer, temple attendance, more…
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“Don’t Touch” — Addressing Sexual Taboos In The LDS Faith Intro
In this exploration of Latter-day Saint sexuality, we venture into a realm often shrouded in complexity and sensitivity: masturbation within the LDS faith. This subject is not merely about the broader spectrum of sexuality — a topic our faith community is progressively engaging with more openness — but rather, it focuses on the intricacies of…
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“Don’t Touch” — Addressing Sexual Taboos In The LDS Faith Part 6
Previous Chapter: 5. A New Culture Is Born: “Doctrine And Addiction” And Returning To The 1700s Purity, Modesty And Moral Ambiguity A quick word on purity and modesty and how it’s negatively feeding into our perception/paradigm and preventing healthy solutions. These are probably two of the most ambiguous terms I hear in the context of…
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“Don’t Touch” — Addressing Sexual Taboos In The LDS Faith Part 7
Previous Chapter: 6. Purity, Modesty, And Moral Ambiguity Solution: Real Self-Mastery Cultivating Sexuality Masturbate. Yes, masturbate. Learn your body. Cultivate and master your God-given desires as early as possible. Rejection, suppression, and ignoring are not tools of self-mastery. We treat sexuality as an exception to the concept of self-mastery. We have convinced ourselves that it’s…
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“Don’t Touch” — Addressing Sexual Taboos In The LDS Faith Part 5
Previous Chapter: 4. What Went Wrong? A New Culture Is Born: “Doctrine And Addiction” And Returning To The 1700s In my book, I explore in detail the historical development of how we’ve come to culturally believe masturbation is such a serious sin. Even in this brief summary you can see how the leadership appears to…
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“Don’t Touch” — Addressing Sexual Taboos in the LDS Faith Part 1
In this article Background — It Happened Again Personal Narratives: The Struggle for Spiritual Harmony The Simplicity and Effectiveness of the Solution The Impact on Individuals and Church Leaders Doctrinal and Cultural Context: Navigating the Complexities Emotional Landscape: Guilt, Shame, and Faith Seeking Solutions: Beyond Traditional Approaches The Role of Church Leaders and the Community…