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Lesley Butterfield has been a guest poster on this blog before. I appreciated her thoughts shared by the Salt Lake Tribune in regards to the talk President Nelson gave where he spoke about eternal families.<\/p>\n

Commentary: LDS Church<\/a> officials are practicing spiritual extortion<\/a><\/h1>\n

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Natasha Helfer Parker, LCMFT, CST can be reached at\u00a0natashaparker.org<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0runs an online practice,\u00a0Symmetry Solutions<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, which focuses on helping families and individuals with faith concerns, sexuality and mental health. She hosts the\u00a0Mormon Mental Health<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Mormon Sex Info<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Podcasts, is the current past-president of the\u00a0Mormon Mental Health Association<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and runs a sex education program,\u00a0Sex Talk with Natasha<\/strong><\/a>. She has over 20 years of experience working with primarily an LDS\/Mormon clientele.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lesley Butterfield has been a guest poster on this blog before. I appreciated her thoughts shared by the Salt Lake Tribune in regards to the talk President Nelson gave where he spoke about eternal families. Commentary: LDS Church officials are practicing spiritual extortion \u00a0 Natasha Helfer Parker, LCMFT, CST can be reached at\u00a0natashaparker.org\u00a0and\u00a0runs an online […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":766,"featured_media":4789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,214,21,138,183,75,170,43],"tags":[68,104,46,211,58,92,139,186,29,47,32,100],"class_list":["post-4780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gospel-teachings","category-lgbtq-2","category-marriage","category-mindfulness","category-mixed-faith","category-relationships","category-spirituality","category-temple-issues","tag-general-conference","tag-latter-day-saint","tag-lds","tag-lgbtq","tag-marriage-2","tag-mental-health","tag-mindfulness","tag-mixed-faith","tag-mormon","tag-mormonism","tag-parenting-2","tag-spirituality"],"yoast_head":"\nSpiritual Extortion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lesley Butterfield has been a guest poster on this blog before. 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