Healing Sols Podcast Natasha Helfer

This episode was previously recorded for “Mormon Sex Info” and is being refurbished here for your enjoyment.
This is a conversation between prominent LDS therapists about the upcoming membership council Natasha Helfer is facing this weekend (April 18, 2021).
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This podcast episode was originally recorded for "Mormon Sex Info" Podcast. It's now being refurbished for your enjoyment here at the "Healing Sols Podcast."
For more from Natasha Helfer, LCMFT, CST, CSTS, please visit https://www.natashahelfer.com.
Natasha Helfer Parker interviews Aimee Heffernan, LMFT in regards to achieving what can at times seem like the elusive female orgasm. They cover all types of topics from psychological aspects that can get in the way of climax, to specific techniques that women and their partners can find helpful. What ruts can we get stuck in either in regards to sexual practice or sexual meaning? How does self-pleasure and self-exploration begin a self knowledge that can translate to orgasmic potential? How can using a vibrator help achieve orgasm? Does the G-Spot exist? What about multiple orgasms? What is squirting? How do we improve our communication skills around these types of conversations?
Aimee Heffernan grew up in Salt Lake City in a very open-minded, unorthodox, feminist, Mormon home. She was raised with the beautiful aspects of Mormon theology balanced with the nuance and complicated parts church history. Aimee attended Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA before she went on her mission to Sendai, Japan. She graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in Sociology and with a masters degree from Seattle Pacific University in Marriage and Family Therapy. Aimee has a private practice in Redmond, WA, where she specializes in relationships, infidelity, sexuality, faith/spirituality crisis and transitions, mixed faith marriages, women’s issues, self-esteem and identity. She is a trained educator for the Gottman Bringing Baby Home program. She is currently working towards becoming a certified sex therapist through AASECT. Aimee has presented for the NW Chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society, local schools, more church functions than she can count, and enjoys speaking about mental, emotional, and sexual health.
Resources mentioned during the podcast: My Official Stance on Masturbation blog post by Natasha Helfer Parker
How Can I Go to the Temple if I’m Still Masturbating blog post by Natasha Helfer Parker
Kristin Hodson featured on Episode 1: Porn Addiction: Is It Real?
LDS Female Sexuality with Jennifer Finlayson-Fife on Mormon Mental Health Podcast
OMGYES
Kinsey Institute
Sex + w/ Laci Green
Sexplantions with Dr. Doe
Lovers
Blue Boutique located in Salt Lake City
Sex toy called Double Trouble
Other Resources: Sex Smart Films: Promoting Sexual Literacy
The Clitoris: A Complete Sex Guide
Babeland

For more from Natasha, please visit: natashahelfer.com.
Natasha Helfer interviews Michael and Carla Sommerfeld in regards to their experiences offering sexual education classes within religious/faith communities.
 
You can reach out to Michael and Carla here:
 
https://www.facebook.com/michael.sommerfeld.90
 
Or here:
 
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/therapists/michael-sommerfeld-edmonton-ab/486518
 
To help keep Mormon Sex Info going past 2021, please donate at mormonsex.info.

For more from Natasha, please visit: natashahelfer.com.
Natasha Helfer and Kristin Bennion discuss their concerns about what has been happening in the nation with the rise of conspiracy theories and their dangers from a psychological perspective.
"The ‘Shared Psychosis’ of Donald Trump and His Loyalists"
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-shared-psychosis-of-donald-trump-and-his-loyalists/?fbclid=IwAR2fwhFtvUalzsAQ8B5nKgK4_5XdgHLsbdA6Q8SWXtvn8_TxIzC7z9Uuqro
For more on Kristin, you can visit:
https://www.intimateconnectionscounseling.com/about/

On this episode of the Healing Sols Podcast, Natasha is joined by Sarah Bridges, a certified lactation counselor and founder of "Latch On, Latch Off." She has her own YouTube channel where she offers support to the many tricky aspects of being a parent of an infant:
 
https://www.youtube.com/.../UCOhcEuIjMmntSJoaE2g0isQ/about
 
Sarah describes many of the common challenges, misinformation and pressure/expectations that can cause unnecessary pain, self-blame, and relational/sexual problems. She does a lovely job of interweaving her own challenges and vulnerabilites as she faced being a new mother and offers some good suggestions on how to get the information and support needed to heal and empower yourself as a parent or a couple in regards to the very common life stage of "after the baby." Sarah offers online breastfeeding classes and other resources and can be reached at:
 
https://latchonlatchoff.wixsite.com/website
 
or latchonlatchoff@gmail.com
 
Great listen... please share with those you know may need support in this time of life which can be equally beautiful/difficult.
 
For more from Natasha, please visit: https://www.natashahelfer.com

This podcast episode was originally recorded for "Mormon Sex Info" Podcast. It's now being refurbished for your enjoyment here at the "Healing Sols Podcast."
For more from Natasha Helfer, LCMFT, CST, CSTS, please visit https://www.natashahelfer.com.
Natasha Helfer Parker interviews Dr. David Ley, author of The Myth of Sex Addiction, regarding the problems with the sex addiction treatment model and the conversations we should be having instead. He states that not only is this type of modality erroneous, but dangerous. They cover such issues as: How do shifting attitudes about sexuality force us to renegotiate how we see and define healthy sexuality? Why is sexual diversity easily pathologized? Why is it that there is not a single published study that sex addiction treatment makes a difference and yet treatment centers are growing in number at an alarming rate? Why are we abandoning people within a moral or social crisis, by focusing on things like a supposed pornography public health crisis? Are we aware that gay and bi men are three times as likely to be called “sex addicts?” Are we aware that the American Psychiatric Association has rejected the language of “sex addiction” for 40 years? Are we talking about the importance of sex education and regular dialogue? How can we help people explore morality in their sexuality as adults? How do we incorporate religious beliefs in ways that allow for normative sexuality?
Dr. David Ley is a clinical psychologist in practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Ole Miss, and his Master’s and Doctoral degrees in clinical psychology from the University of New Mexico. Dr. Ley is the Executive Director of New Mexico Solutions, a large outpatient mental health and substance abuse program in Albuquerque, NM. Dr. Ley has been treating sexuality issues throughout his career. He first began treating perpetrators and victims of sexual abuse, but expanded his approach to include the fostering and promotion of healthy sexuality, and awareness of the wide range of normative sexual behaviors. Insatiable Wives: Women Who Stray and the Men Who Love Them is his first book and won a Silver Medal in the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year contest for 2009. Dr. Ley wrote Insatiable Wives following two years of interviews with couples around the country. His controversial second book, The Myth of Sex Addiction was released in March 2012.
Resources mentioned during the podcast: Defining “Normophilic” and “Paraphilic” Sexual Fantasies in a Population-Based Sample: On the Importance of Considering Subgroups by Christian Joyal
Jason Winters (2010) published three studies on sex addiction, demonstrating that alleged sex addicts have as much (or as little) sexual self-control as anyone else, and that the identity of sex addict is predicated by a religious upbringing.
Grubbs, Hook, Griffin and Davis (2015) published a review of the paucity of outcome data on sex addiction treatment in Current Addiction Reports.
Work of Dr. Rory Reid
Work of Stulhofer
The Religious Institute