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2017: Strengthening Your Marriage With Your Transgender Spouse
Session Description: Marriage to a transgender individual has its own set of unique challenges and opportunities. Do you sometimes wonder if your marriage can survive and even thrive? Join us as we...
2017: Finding Joy in the Gospel as a Daughter of God (Who Also Happens to Experience SSA)
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...
2017: Seeking a Higher Love: Loving Ourselves and Others in God’s Way
Session Description: If God is a being whose defining essence is love (see 1 John 4:8, 16), and if we are to fulfill the measure of our creation as His sons and daughters, we also must and will...
2017: Challenging Your Beliefs: Making the Gospel Work
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...
2017: Finding Healing: Forgiving Myself & Others
Session Description: The transformative power of the Atonement can heal even the deepest wounds. With the Lord’s help, burdens can be lifted and friendships and family relationships can be healed....
2017: Gratitude and Grief: finding Meaning in Seemingly Conflicting Emotions
Session Description: It can be tough to navigate seemingly conflicting emotions, especially when they are felt at the same time. Have you ever felt like you shouldn’t feel sadness or grief because...
2017: Building Your Support Community as a SSA/Gay Woman
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...
2017: Honoring My Wife While Maintaining Close Male Friendships
Session Description: Every married person maintains important friendships outside of the marriage. In this session we’ll discuss how to find balance between your relationship with your wife and her...
2017: Our Worst Enemies: Finding Support in the Transgender Community
Session Description: As a transgender individual, have you ever felt judged or alienated even from within the transgender community? Join us in a heartfelt round table discussion as we seek to come...
2017: Living in the Gray: Healthy Grieving vs. Becoming a Victim
2017 conferenceSession Description: For most people it is either all or nothing-black or white. If there’s a plan, then I either fit in it or I don’t. Either God loves me no matter what or He...