When you see your body, what thoughts do you have? What words do you put on to add meaning? What do you feel toward your body? Does it feel like an enemy or an ally? How in tune with your body are you? Do you take cues from it? Have you gotten good at ignoring it? Tune in as Ashley discusses the need for body neutrality and an idea for achieving it.

Apostle M. Russell Ballard said at a campus wide BYU devotional in 2017, “We need to listen to and understand what our LGBT brothers and sisters are feeling and experiencing. Certainly, we must do better than we have done in the past so that all members feel they have a spiritual home where their brothers and sisters love them and where they have a place to worship and serve the Lord." Listen in to explore this topic with Ashley.

Resources:

https://gather-conference.com/https://www.listenlearnandlove.org/support-groupshttps://www.listenlearnandlove.org/presentations

Works Cited:

http://benschilaty.blogspot.com/2023/https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-truth-about-exercise-addiction/201710/why-are-suicide-rates-higher-among-lgbtq-youthhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/qb7c2os3yi4sbdv/Rexburg%204.30.2022.pdf?dl=0https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2023/04/47nelson?lang=eng

Our Father and His son, Jesus Christ, greatly desire to bless us. They can and they do! Doctrine and Covenants 41:1 says, “Hearken and hear, O ye my people, saith the Lord and your God, ye whom I delight to bless with the greatest of all blessings” Listen in to hear how the Lord blesses us through the matchless gift of his grace!

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2005/04/the-tender-mercies-of-the-lord?lang=enghttps://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/gs/bless-blessed-blessing?lang=enghttps://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/inspiration/the-lord-is-delighted-to-bless-us?lang=eng

The truth is, we all come with needs and we will either seek to meet them in healthy ways, or ignore our needs or seek to meet them in unhealthy ways. Ignoring these needs or meeting them in unhealthy ways often leads to resentment, disconnection and contention. Listen in to learn more!

https://www.holisticwellnesspractice.com/hwp-blog/2021/09/20/how-to-identify-and-get-your-emotional-needs-met

https://www.sociocracyforall.org/nvc-feelings-and-needs-list/

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2023/04/47nelson?lang=eng

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