“Truth Over Comfort”

"Truth Over Comfort" by Valerie Hamaker

The evening began in a typical fashion. I entered a home filled with happy chatter and a kitchen counter laden with “girls night out” fare. After the predictable 30 minutes of meet-and-greet, the host invited me to the front of the main gathering room, where couches and a hodgepodge of chairs and benches from throughout the house had been dragged in for the occasion: a real-talk about womanhood, psychological growth, and spiritual development.As an LDS relationship therapist with advanced experience in sexual health, trauma recovery, and midlife identity crisis, I had done many, many similar gatherings. The topic of sexual […]

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