A Healing Path Forward for Mormons?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_path_forward_(247975938).jpg Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) has proven efficacy in helping those with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) adopt healthier ways of viewing and coping with reality. Some hallmarks of BPD include black-and white thinking, all-or-nothing thinking, splitting (us-vs.-them thinking) and extreme forms of valuation and idealization as well as extreme forms of devaluation. Sometimes towards the …

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Top Evidence Supporting and Challenging Literal LDS (Mormon) Truth Claims

Image labeled for resuse at flicker.com The Power of Specificity and Sensitivity The specificity and sensitivity of tests or evidence is the bedrock of ruling in and/or ruling out diagnoses or truth claims in the medical field. A highly specific positive test or evidence is required to rule in a diagnosis or a truth claim. …

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Squaring the Mormon Circle

https://pixabay.com/photos/walnut-nut-shell-nutshell-open-3072652/ On April 5, 2021, Dr. Julie Hanks, a Mormon mental health professional posted about President Russell M. Nelson's April 2021 conference address. Specifically she addressed this quote: Stop increasing your doubts by rehearsing them with other doubters.President Russell M. Nelson I commented on her post: Regardless of how one puts it, at the end …

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Dream of Compassion, 1 July 2020

Image from kingdomhigh.com, labeled for reuse. Just woke up from a dream of a man (me) tearfully trying to share his perspective to his siblings and parents (who weren’t really listening) about the Book of Abraham: How the facsimiles are mistranslated per LDS and non-LDS Egyptologists. How the Egyptian figures correlating with the text of …

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