Subscriber-only episodeSend us a Positive Review!In this episode Valerie and Nathan discuss the challenges of parenting in a progressive Latter-day Saints context. They emphasize the importance of recognizing the potential blinds pots inherent to families situated in an authoritarian and patriarchal structure. Both share their insecurities, parenting mistakes, and also their parenting growth and victories. They also touch on their evolving views on topics such as parenting around modesty, clothing choices, validating children's experiences, and helping their children develop their own personal value systems.**More sensitive or more psychologically advanced themes are saved for paid Friday episodes to protect the content creators from being mischaracterized by less familiar consumers.**LEARN HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO FRIDAY EPISODES(Watch a 2-minute how-to video)THEN subscribe to Fridays here. TROUBLE WITH YOUR SUBSCRIPTION? Email: support@buzzsprout.comCONSULTING: Interested in doing individual or couples work with Valerie or a member of her trained team? Time-limited packages with Valerie and extended work with her team of coaches and therapists are available ⁠⁠here!⁠ SUPPORT GROUPS: Next support & processing group coming March 2025. To register/learn more, visit here.OFFICE HOURS FOR FRIDAY SUBSCRIBERS: Register here.CLASSES: Visit our library.SUPPORT: Make a one-time donation to ⁠her business Venmo...

Send us a Positive Review!If the LDS faith expansion journey is messy, just add parenting to the mix and you've got more complexity than many parents feel they can tolerate!  That is why we produced this episode!  We get it! In this episode, Valerie is joined by Julie Hanks to discuss some of the challenges faced by parents of adolescents in and around the LDS church. They answer a handful of questions submitted by listeners to both of their podcasts including thoughts about making boundaries with well-intended but overstepping leaders, avoiding black and white thinking, healthy ways to talk about the temple and the garment, and how to address LGBTQ+ issues in church settings. Overall, this episode offers valuable insights and guidance for parents as they strive to support their children's growth and well-being.Info on how to subscribe to listen to Friday’s episode is directly below.  See you there!Support the show**More sensitive or more psychologically advanced themes are saved for paid Friday episodes to protect the content creators from being mischaracterized by less familiar consumers.**LEARN HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO FRIDAY EPISODES(Watch a 2-minute how-to video)THEN subscribe to Fridays here. TROUBLE WITH YOUR SUBSCRIPTION? Email: support@buzzsprout.comCONSULTING: Interested in doing individual or couples work with Valerie or a member of her trained team? Time-limited packages with Valerie and extended work with her team of coaches and therapists are available ⁠⁠here!⁠ SUPPORT GROUPS: Next support & processing group coming March 2025. To register/learn more, visit here.OFFICE HOURS FOR FRIDAY SUBSCRIBERS: Register here.CLASSES: Visit our library.SUPPORT: Make a one-time donation to ⁠her business Venmo...

Subscriber-only episodeSend us a Positive Review!Series Title: Guiding & Trusting LDS Young Adults as They Navigate their Faith [Part II of II]Welcome to the second half of this miniseries between Valerie and Patrick Mason. In this episode Val and Patrick share thoughts and feelings about what they notice is needed for the LDS church to become a place where truly all generations and all members from the "top" to the "bottom" feel that they belong and are welcome to learn from one another. They believe that as we learn how to love and listen better, we will come closer to our potential as a vibrant body of Christ.**More sensitive or more psychologically advanced themes are saved for paid Friday episodes to protect the content creators from being mischaracterized by less familiar consumers.**LEARN HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO FRIDAY EPISODES(Watch a 2-minute how-to video)THEN subscribe to Fridays here. TROUBLE WITH YOUR SUBSCRIPTION? Email: support@buzzsprout.comCONSULTING: Interested in doing individual or couples work with Valerie or a member of her trained team? Time-limited packages with Valerie and extended work with her team of coaches and therapists are available ⁠⁠here!⁠ SUPPORT GROUPS: Next support & processing group coming March 2025. To register/learn more, visit here.OFFICE HOURS FOR FRIDAY SUBSCRIBERS: Register here.CLASSES: Visit our library.SUPPORT: Make a one-time donation to ⁠her business Venmo...

Send us a Positive Review!Join me for an hour learning about the body's response to painful words. This will happen THIS Monday October 9th, 2023 10:30a Central Time for a FREE virtual webinar. This gathering is especially for those wanting to know if a trauma, processing, growth, and support group through the Latter Day Struggles Platform is right for you. Those in my current or former groups of course welcome to jump in as well! Enroll HERE!https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrdu2gqjwsHd1NdcdewxlyebWmhfxQDaowSupport the show**More sensitive or more psychologically advanced themes are saved for paid Friday episodes to protect the content creators from being mischaracterized by less familiar consumers.**LEARN HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO FRIDAY EPISODES(Watch a 2-minute how-to video)THEN subscribe to Fridays here. TROUBLE WITH YOUR SUBSCRIPTION? Email: support@buzzsprout.comCONSULTING: Interested in doing individual or couples work with Valerie or a member of her trained team? Time-limited packages with Valerie and extended work with her team of coaches and therapists are available ⁠⁠here!⁠ SUPPORT GROUPS: Next support & processing group coming March 2025. To register/learn more, visit here.OFFICE HOURS FOR FRIDAY SUBSCRIBERS: Register here.CLASSES: Visit our library.SUPPORT: Make a one-time donation to ⁠her business Venmo...

Valerie talks with Patrick Mason, a university professor and mentor for young adults in the LDS church. They discuss the fear of constructive conflict within the Latter-day Saint community, the challenge of finding spaces for open dialogue, and the need for creativity and transformation in the church. Patrick emphasizes the importance of conflict resolution skills and creating safe spaces for meaningful discussions.

Subscriber-only episodeSend us a Positive Review! Series Title: Analysis of E. Corbridge's BYU Devotional “Stand Forever [Part II of II]In this second half of a series tackling E Corbridge’s talk titled “Stand Forever”, Val and Nathan’s address the following: How in their opinion scientific and other academic inquiry IS spiritual in nature Why all questions are viable, valuable, and ought to be welcomed How doubt is evidence of spiritual questing and courageA proposal that if there *were* only one question guiding our discipleship, it ought to be centered in how aligned are we with Christ’s embodiment of love Helpful links for listeners:Stand Forever, Elder Lawrence E Corbridge, BYU DevotionalThe Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More than Our "Correct" Beliefs, by Peter Enns**More sensitive or more psychologically advanced themes are saved for paid Friday episodes to protect the content creators from being mischaracterized by less familiar consumers.**LEARN HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO FRIDAY EPISODES(Watch a 2-minute how-to video)THEN subscribe to Fridays here. TROUBLE WITH YOUR SUBSCRIPTION? Email: support@buzzsprout.comCONSULTING: Interested in doing individual or couples work with Valerie or a member of her trained team? Time-limited packages with Valerie and extended work with her team of coaches and therapists are available ⁠⁠here!⁠ SUPPORT GROUPS: Next support & processing group coming March 2025. To register/learn more, visit here.OFFICE HOURS FOR FRIDAY SUBSCRIBERS: Register here.CLASSES: Visit our library.SUPPORT: Make a one-time donation to ⁠her business Venmo...

Elder Corbridge, Speaker at BYU, proposes primary questions as the only ones that matter in spiritual knowledge. Valerie and Nathan challenge this idea and discuss the importance of scientific inquiry and doubt in spiritual questing. They explore discomfort with unsanitized data and shift attitudes towards love, emphasizing the role of truth in avoiding deception and restoring love in the church's doctrine and theology.

Subscriber-only episodeSend us a Positive Review!Series Title: “On the Inside of the Edge” Exploration w/ Christian Kimball [Part IV of IV]In this final episode in this mini-series featuring Chris Kimball’s book ⁠Living on the Inside of the Edge, Chris and Val close with a sensitive topic of so many of us on the peripheries of the LDS faith tradition.  Both parents to children ranging from adolescents to mid-adulthood, Val and Chris share thoughts about the “Mormon Scoreboard” and how this scoring system hurts both parents and their children.They share their own tender experiences navigating parenting, realizing that while their faith journeys complicated their parenting identities, ultimately they had no choice in the matter and their deepening faith was something that strengthened their ability to love their children and allow their children their own beautiful journeys too.Chris and Valerie talk about fears that they have or have overcome in raising their children on the edge, knowing that others may well see them and/or their children as failures on the Mormon scoreboard.**More sensitive or more psychologically advanced themes are saved for paid Friday episodes to protect the content creators from being mischaracterized by less familiar consumers.**LEARN HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO FRIDAY EPISODES(Watch a 2-minute how-to video)THEN subscribe to Fridays here. TROUBLE WITH YOUR SUBSCRIPTION? Email: support@buzzsprout.comCONSULTING: Interested in doing individual or couples work with Valerie or a member of her trained team? Time-limited packages with Valerie and extended work with her team of coaches and therapists are available ⁠⁠here!⁠ SUPPORT GROUPS: Next support & processing group coming March 2025. To register/learn more, visit here.OFFICE HOURS FOR FRIDAY SUBSCRIBERS: Register here.CLASSES: Visit our library.SUPPORT: Make a one-time donation to ⁠her business Venmo...

Send us a Positive Review!Series Title: “On the Inside of the Edge” Exploration w/ Christian Kimball [Part III of IV]In this episode Chris and Val talk about dangers of MAGICAL THINKING and how pervasive this is in the LDS church.  They discuss how compelling a transactional understanding of life might feel (as all people crave certainty) but how damaging this is when churches offer simple if/then promises that crumble for many of us when things fall apart. What follows failed promises made by well-meaning loved ones and churches?  Not only the despair of the loss (the death, failed marriage, etc.) but also the despair that the whole system upon which one believes in God does not work.  Friday’s closing episode of this series is a tender conversation about parenting on the edge.  Chris and Valerie talk about fears that they have or have overcome in raising their children on the edge, knowing that others may well see them and/or their children as failures on the Mormon scoreboard.Info on how to subscribe to listen to Friday’s episode is directly below.  See you there!Helpful podcast-related resources:⁠Living on the Inside of the Edge: A Survival Guide⁠⁠, Christian KimballSupport the show**More sensitive or more psychologically advanced themes are saved for paid Friday episodes to protect the content creators from being mischaracterized by less familiar consumers.**LEARN HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO FRIDAY EPISODES(Watch a 2-minute how-to video)THEN subscribe to Fridays here. TROUBLE WITH YOUR SUBSCRIPTION? Email: support@buzzsprout.comCONSULTING: Interested in doing individual or couples work with Valerie or a member of her trained team? Time-limited packages with Valerie and extended work with her team of coaches and therapists are available ⁠⁠here!⁠ SUPPORT GROUPS: Next support & processing group coming March 2025. To register/learn more, visit here.OFFICE HOURS FOR FRIDAY SUBSCRIBERS: Register here.CLASSES: Visit our library.SUPPORT: Make a one-time donation to ⁠her business Venmo...

Subscriber-only episodeSend us a Positive Review!Series Title: “On the Inside of the Edge” Exploration w/ Christian Kimball [Part II of IV]In this second episode in the mini-series featuring Chris Kimball’s book Living on the Inside of the Edge, Chris and Val talk about the crucial role that personal differentiation plays in having a healthy relationship with the LDS church.  Put simply, we must all grow up and practice having an adult-to-adult relationship in a culture that sometimes encourages more of a child-to-adult relationship.  They cover everything from Bishop’s interviews to managing the anxiety of breaking benign but significant social codes of this faith community, and doing so from a place that honors the ongoing tension that humans long for both belonging to a community and belonging to themselves. Helpful podcast-related resources:⁠Living on the Inside of the Edge: A Survival Guide⁠⁠, Christian Kimball**More sensitive or more psychologically advanced themes are saved for paid Friday episodes to protect the content creators from being mischaracterized by less familiar consumers.**LEARN HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO FRIDAY EPISODES(Watch a 2-minute how-to video)THEN subscribe to Fridays here. TROUBLE WITH YOUR SUBSCRIPTION? Email: support@buzzsprout.comCONSULTING: Interested in doing individual or couples work with Valerie or a member of her trained team? Time-limited packages with Valerie and extended work with her team of coaches and therapists are available ⁠⁠here!⁠ SUPPORT GROUPS: Next support & processing group coming March 2025. To register/learn more, visit here.OFFICE HOURS FOR FRIDAY SUBSCRIBERS: Register here.CLASSES: Visit our library.SUPPORT: Make a one-time donation to ⁠her business Venmo...