2017: Making and Keeping Healthy Relationships With Other Relationships

SSA Women

Session Description: As an SSA/Gay woman do you sometimes struggle to make and keep healthy relationships with other women? This can be a challenge to many, but meaningful friendships are vital to our well-being and thus worth fighting for. Join us as we share...

2017: Trusting His Plan For My Life

General, SSA Women

Session Description: Sometimes life takes unexpected turns. This can be scary at times and leave us wondering what God’s will for us really is. Come hear the remarkable story of Courtney and Rachelle’s lives as they have learned to trust in God’s guiding hand. Target...

2017: Finding Joy in the Gospel as a Daughter of God (Who Also Happens to Experience SSA)

SSA Women, Women

Session Description: Come talk with Rebecca (Becky) Borden and listen to her journey back into the Gospel after 20 years. Becky has experienced SSA her whole life, and will share both her experience and some of the tools she learned to help her find joy, peace and...

2017: Challenging Your Beliefs: Making the Gospel Work

Gender Identity/Trans, SSA Men, SSA Women

Session Description: When sexual orientation or gender dysphoria appears to be incongruous with one’s desire to follow the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the internal conflict can be difficult to reconcile. In this session, we’ll talk about how challenging one’s spiritual...

2017: Building Your Support Community as a SSA/Gay Woman

SSA Women

Session Description: Do you have a strong support community to help you manage the struggles you face as an SSA/Gay woman? Let’s discuss what has worked well for other women as they seek to build their own support communities, whether locally or across the world. You...

2018: Assertiveness Skills for Women

Spouses, SSA Women

Session Description: LDS cultural narratives of women’s suffering, self-sacrifice, and selflessness can hinder women’s ability to be assertive and lead them to subjugate their feelings, thoughts, needs, and wants for the sake of others. This presentation will outline...

2018: The Healing Power of Stories: How Stories We Hold About Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Impact Our Mental Health

SSA Men, SSA Women

Session Description: The stories we hold about SSA or gender identity have a huge impact on our mental health, and our experience of happiness and contentment, or pain and suffering. Certainly, our stories or mindset aren’t the end all. There are all sorts of factors...

2018: Panel: Including Others in My Journey: A Discussion on Being “Out” About SSA

SSA Women

Session Description: Should I tell anyone at Church about my SSA? What about my friends? How do I handle questions? What have other women done? What was their experience? If any of these questions have ever run through your mind, or you have similar ones, come join us...

2018: Making & Keeping Female Friends: A Workshop for SSA Women

SSA Women

Session Description: Having friends is great! Friendships between women are essential. Great friendships give us peace, happiness, fulfillment, and many other benefits. But, sometimes friendships take a toll on us. And, sometimes friendships grow one step beyond...

2018: Finding Your Way in the Wilderness

SSA Women

Session Description: Far too often SSA/Lesbian women are given tools for navigating sexuality that doesn’t speak to their unique needs of being in a mixed-orientation marriage. Many of these women feel like they are “wandering in the wilderness” when it comes to their...