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		<title>RECLAIM YOUR TRUE SELF</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Natasha Helfer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2020 20:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This will be a great group/workshop to participate in hosted by my team member, Caron Cordes. So many issues to work through in regards to body image and self-love/acceptance. Join us! JOIN CARON CORDES, MSPSY, EDIT FOR A 6-WEEK ONLINE Body Positivity and Disordered Eating Support Group RECLAIM YOUR TRUE SELF: Letting go of who [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Comments on Navigating Mixed Faith Marriages</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/mormontherapist/2020/08/mixed-faith-marriage-experiences.html</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Natasha Helfer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2020 17:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have been working with mixed-faith marriages as an expertise in my practice for over a decade. With so many people in today’s climate having shifts in their religious identities… it often affects spouses and marriage. Where they once shared their religious beliefs and faith traditions, they no longer do. There are few resources to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>An Apology&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Natasha Helfer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Natasha Helfer, LCMFT, CST, CSTS can be reached at natashaparker.org and runs an online practice, Symmetry Solutions, which focuses on helping families and individuals with faith concerns, sexuality and mental health. She hosts the Mormon Mental Health and Mormon Sex InfoPodcasts, is the current past president of the Mormon Mental Health Association and runs a sex education program, Sex Talk with Natasha. She [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Letter to Mixed Faith Couples</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Natasha Helfer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2020 17:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This guest  post is being shared with the author’s permission.   It has been provided by Allan Mount, Co-Host of the Marriage on a Tightrope Podcast. Opinions shared on this post may or may not completely reflect the positions of The Mormon Therapist Blog and Natasha Helfer. After the episode we did with my (currently serving [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Art of Difficult Conversation: My Story.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Natasha Helfer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2020 17:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This guest post is being shared by and with the permission of Caroline Crocket Brock. Opinions shared on this post may or may not completely reflect the positions of The Mormon Therapist Blog and Natasha Helfer Parker.  I ran a secret FB marriage group for a few years. The group consisted of couples where one spouse had left [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I Needed to Hear This Again Today</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Natasha Helfer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2020 17:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I needed to hear this again today. So much baggage most of us carry in the word “forgiveness.” Ultimately… forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. It’s acceptance. And it’s moving forward. I don’t really use the word forgiveness much anymore… because it’s been so polarized and cheapened… and even used to retraumatize and justify [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AN OPEN LETTER TO THE LDS CHURCH</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Natasha Helfer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2020 20:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today’s guest post is written by Brittan Messerly.  Opinions shared on guest posts may not completely reflect the positions of the blog’s author. Brittan Messerly is the author of of Mindfully Messy.  She is a lesbian, a Buddhist, and a “Digital Nomad on hiatus” until international travel is safe again. AN OPEN LETTER TO THE LDS CHURCH [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Symmetry Solutions Strategies</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/mormontherapist/2020/06/symmetry-solutions-strategies-10.html</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Natasha Helfer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2020 19:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Symmetry Solutions Strategies is a 15-30 minutes Q&#38;A/discussion session with a group of Symmetry Solutions providers. We hope to get together most Fridays on Facebook to answer questions, pass along helpful mental health information and provide ways providers at Symmetry Solutions can be of assistance. If you have a question, please feel free to contact [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>It didn&#8217;t have to be this way&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/mormontherapist/2020/06/it-didnt-have-to-be-this-way.html</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Natasha Helfer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2020 19:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As the Minneapolis City Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins,  stated… racism [is] a public health emergency. Mental health research corroborates this. As a white-privileged led church… we can no longer pretend racism doesn’t exist. Nor can we pretend we don’t have a role in the ongoing racism that pervades our culture. I hope to see [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Black Clinician&#8217;s Community Support</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/mormontherapist/2020/06/black-clinicians-community-support.html</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Natasha Helfer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This group, The Black Clinicians,  is a collective of Black medical and mental health clinicians servicing the needs of the Black community and committed to creating healing spaces for all. Please respect their space. I share so that white colleagues and friends (me included) will sit, listen and learn. These are colleagues of mine here in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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