Podcast appearances and mentions of kristin marie bennion

Kristin Marie Bennion is a licensed mental health therapist and an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist. With over 12 years of experience, she works with clients experiencing difficulties related to sexuality, spirituality, and relationships. Kristin is currently working toward a doctoral degree in sexuality studies, where she is studying representations of gender, sexuality, and the media.  We dove right into this subject, and she shares what that looks like with being a sex therapist and how she got into this career.  We also spoke about How sexuality can affect someone's life, and when women are taught not to know about their bodies, they got horrible messages that create negative beliefs, which then can affect adulthood.  How being raised in the LDS religion affected us as we grew up, and how much unraveling it takes to think in a healthy way around our sexuality and the stories and beliefs we made up by what we were taught or experienced.  We touched on Religious and spiritual values and what can show up in every aspect of life when people have a faith crisis—the Struggles with having an orgasm as a woman, and so many factors that go into this.  Join us as we discuss this juicy topic.  Connect on IG @mikajbruin linktr.ee - www.mikabruin.co Instagram: kristinmariebennion Website: www.kristinmariecst.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mika-fiack/support

Thank you for listening to Mormon Sex Info. This episode is an archived episode and is only now becoming publicly available. Mormon Sex Info relies on contributions. To contribute, please visit: mormonsex.info Kristin Marie Bennion and Amy Heffernan join Natasha as they discuss current topics in Mormonism surrounding sexuality. They discuss the term “non-consensual immorality” and how this is not a “thing,” the Protect LDS Children movement, the situation surrounding Joseph Bishop and go into depth of one man’s experience who found his sexual perpetrator was recently called to be a bishop. During the conversation, Natasha realizes she is a possible mandatory reporter for this man’s experience. As she processes the situation with Kristin and Amy, she realizes she needs to report the perpetrator. Please note that Natasha consulted with her professional ethics/legal board and has placed a call to child protective services in regards to the case discussed in the podcast. Natasha also consulted with the couple in question before she placed any report. Resources mentioned during podcast: To view the the talk Natasha gave for the Protect LDS Children march in Salt Lake City, please go here: www.facebook.com/ProtectLDSChildren/videos/1801423469921921/

Thank you for listening to Mormon Sex Info. This episode is an archived episode and is only now becoming publicly available. Mormon Sex Info relies on contributions. To contribute, please visit: mormonsex.info Natasha Helfer Parker leads a monthly podcast “bookclub style” with colleagues who also happen to be AASECT Certified Sex Therapists in regards to current articles, news stories, research, etc. that have to do with the Mormon community from a sex-positive perspective. This month join Natasha and Kristin Marie Bennion as they discuss the following news stories & articles: 1. the Protect LDS Children petition and press conference, 2. survey results coming out of BYU study in regards to reporting sexual assault, and 3. how LDS Living Magazine dealt with the dresses worn in solidarity with the #metoo movement at the Golden Globes. Resources Mentioned During the Podcast: Protectldschildren.org Protect LDS Children Press Conference Fox News Reports on the Press Conference SNAP- Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests Declaration of Sexual Rights by the World Association for Sexual Health Most BYU sexual assault victims either report to Mormon church leaders or don’t report at all, campus survey shows Results of the BYU Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault Julie Valentine: BYU professor encouraged by results of new research on sexual assault kit processing Donna Kelly: Helping Sexual Assault Victims and Keeping BYU Accountable for Title IX Recommendations Mormons miss the point of #MeToo by focusing on modest gowns at Golden Globes by Jana Riess

Thank you for listening to Mormon Sex Info. This episode is an archived episode and is only now becoming publicly available. Mormon Sex Info relies on contributions. To contribute, please visit: mormonsex.info Four Certified Sex Therapists who routinely work with Mormon clientele continue to offer a response to An Open Letter to Bishops from a Wife of a Pornography Addict: 7 Things I Wish You Knew.  Natasha Helfer Parker, Kristin Hodson, Kristin Marie Bennion and Shannon Hickman lead a thorough discussion walking listeners through both the clinically sound parts of the piece as well as those perspectives that they consider not helpful and even harmful to potential readers.

Thank you for listening to Mormon Sex Info. This episode is an archived episode and is only now becoming publicly available. Mormon Sex Info relies on contributions. To contribute, please visit: mormonsex.info Four Certified Sex Therapists who routinely work with Mormon clientele offer a response to An Open Letter to Bishops from a Wife of a Pornography Addict: 7 Things I Wish You Knew.  Natasha Helfer Parker, Kristin Hodson, Kristin Marie Bennion and Shannon Hickman lead a thorough discussion walking listeners through both the clinically sound parts of the piece as well as those perspectives that they consider not helpful and even harmful to potential readers.

Kristin Marie Bennion and Amy Heffernan join Natasha as they discuss current topics in Mormonism surrounding sexuality. They discuss the term “non-consensual immorality” and how this is not a “thing," the Protect LDS Children movement, the situation surrounding Joseph Bishop and go into depth of one man’s experience who found his sexual perpetrator was recently called to be a bishop. During the conversation, Natasha realizes she is a mandatory reporter for this man’s experience. As she processes the situation with Kristin and Amy, she realizes she needs to report the perpetrator. Please note that Natasha consulted with her professional ethics/legal board and has placed a call to child protective services in regards to the case discussed in the podcast. To view the the talk Natasha gave for the Protect LDS Children march in Salt Lake City, please go here: www.facebook.com/ProtectLDSChildren/videos/1801423469921921/ Thank you to all that have donated to Mormon Mental Health. To donate, please go here and consider becoming a monthly supporter: www.mormonmentalhealth.org

Episode 63: Sex in the Mormon News Jan 2018 #2 Natasha Helfer Parker leads a monthly podcast “bookclub style” with colleagues who also happen to be AASECT Certified Sex Therapists in regards to current articles, news stories, research, etc. that have to do with the Mormon community from a sex-positive perspective. This month join Natasha and Kristin Marie Bennion as they discuss the following news stories & articles: 1. the Protect LDS Children petition and press conference, 2. survey results coming out of BYU study in regards to reporting sexual assault, and  3. how LDS Living Magazine dealt with the dresses worn in solidarity with the #metoo movement at the Golden Globes.    Resources Mentioned: Protectldschildren.org Protect LDS Children Press Conference Fox News Reports on the Press Conference SNAP- Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests Declaration of Sexual Rights by the World Association for Sexual Health Most BYU sexual assault victims either report to Mormon church leaders or don’t report at all, campus survey shows Results of the BYU Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault Julie Valentine: BYU professor encouraged by results of new research on sexual assault kit processing Donna Kelly: Helping Sexual Assault Victims and Keeping BYU Accountable for Title IX Recommendations Mormons miss the point of #MeToo by focusing on modest gowns at Golden Globes by Jana Riess 

Four Certified Sex Therapists who routinely work with Mormon clientele offer a response to An Open Letter to Bishops from a Wife of a Pornography Addict: 7 Things I Wish You Knew.  Natasha Helfer Parker, Kristin Hodson, Kristin Marie Bennion and Shannon Hickman lead a thorough discussion walking listeners through both the clinically sound parts of the piece, as well as the perspectives they consider misinformed, inappropriate or even harmful to potential readers and ecclesiastical leaders. 

Four Certified Sex Therapists who routinely work with Mormon clientele offer a response to An Open Letter to Bishops from a Wife of a Pornography Addict: 7 Things I Wish You Knew.  Natasha Helfer Parker, Kristin Hodson, Kristin Marie Bennion and Shannon Hickman lead a thorough discussion walking listeners through both the clinically sound parts of the piece, as well as the perspectives they consider misinformed, inappropriate or even harmful to potential readers and ecclesiastical leaders. 

In this episode we discuss what happens when religions or religious people praise abusers in front of their victims.   In April 2017, Keith Robert Vallejo, a Mormon bishop, was convicted of 10 counts of forcible sexual abuse and one count of object rape, involving two women – who were both staying at his home at the time of the rape/abuse.   During his sentencing hearing in Provo, Utah, Fourth District judge Thomas Low (who is currently serving as Mormon bishop of the Valley Hills First Ward of the Heber City Utah North Stake), praised Vallejo as a "an extraordinarily good man" in front of his two victims. You can hear his full statement here: https://soundcloud.com/user-592916436/judge-thomas-low-statement   In today’s Mormon Stories Podcast episode we are interviewing Ashlie.  Ashlie currently attends a Mormon ward where a former bishop who has abused two separate victims who were both ward members.  He was convicted of rape for the first offense has been fully reintegrated into the ward at the expense of his victims (who also remain in the ward).  According to Ashlie: After the former bishop served time in prison, wealthy ward members pooled a large amount of money to have his name removed from the sex offender’s registry in Florida. He has been reinstated with full membership status back into the ward, and is currently serving as seminary teacher and as a high priest teacher. Many ward and stake members have not been informed of his former abuses. The victims and their families have been marginalized by the ward and stake for not being more “forgiving,” and for not “understanding the atonement.”   Today we will be discussing Ashlie’s perspective on the impact of protecting abusers at the expense of the abused, along with how this has impacted her own faith journey.  Ashlie’s stories includes: Her conversion to the church. Her temple marriage that ended in divorce Her inappropriate excommunication for drinking alcohol Her rebaptism into the church by Bishop Mark McConkie (Colorado Spring) Her re-marriage (elopement, then temple sealing) Her experience in a ward where three successive bishops were excommunicated Her “shelf breakers” and faith transition (which happened only a month ago). This episode includes a beautiful shout-out to Kristin Marie (Bennion), so check it out!

In this episode we discuss what happens when religions or religious people praise abusers in front of their victims.   In April 2017, Keith Robert Vallejo, a Mormon bishop, was convicted of 10 counts of forcible sexual abuse and one count of object rape, involving two women – who were both staying at his home at the time of the rape/abuse.   During his sentencing hearing in Provo, Utah, Fourth District judge Thomas Low (who is currently serving as Mormon bishop of the Valley Hills First Ward of the Heber City Utah North Stake), praised Vallejo as a "an extraordinarily good man" in front of his two victims. You can hear his full statement here: https://soundcloud.com/user-592916436/judge-thomas-low-statement   In today’s Mormon Stories Podcast episode we are interviewing Ashlie.  Ashlie currently attends a Mormon ward where a former bishop who has abused two separate victims who were both ward members.  He was convicted of rape for the first offense has been fully reintegrated into the ward at the expense of his victims (who also remain in the ward).  According to Ashlie: After the former bishop served time in prison, wealthy ward members pooled a large amount of money to have his name removed from the sex offender’s registry in Florida. He has been reinstated with full membership status back into the ward, and is currently serving as seminary teacher and as a high priest teacher. Many ward and stake members have not been informed of his former abuses. The victims and their families have been marginalized by the ward and stake for not being more “forgiving,” and for not “understanding the atonement.”   Today we will be discussing Ashlie’s perspective on the impact of protecting abusers at the expense of the abused, along with how this has impacted her own faith journey.  Ashlie’s stories includes: Her conversion to the church. Her temple marriage that ended in divorce Her inappropriate excommunication for drinking alcohol Her rebaptism into the church by Bishop Mark McConkie (Colorado Spring) Her re-marriage (elopement, then temple sealing) Her experience in a ward where three successive bishops were excommunicated Her “shelf breakers” and faith transition (which happened only a month ago). This episode includes a beautiful shout-out to Kristin Marie (Bennion), so check it out!

Mormonism, like most religions, has many teachings about sex and intimacy. But, like everything else, teachings interact with persons, each with her or his own temperaments and autobiographies. As a result, the same teaching can strike each of us differently. For some, messages about embodied Gods, male and female, is incredibly empowering, even a help to them in developing positive attitudes toward their own sexuality. For others, the same teaching (and all its extensions) can trigger negative reactions as they imagine lives of eternal sex and childbearing, or find other extensions of the teaching problematic and disempowering. For some people, the Law of Chastity becomes an important element in their value system, leading them to take a healthy look at and make empowering choices regarding their sexual desires and actions. For others, it becomes a burden, something imposed upon them, and they end up making choices about sexual practice out of fear--fear of God, parents, church leaders--and as attempts to please others. Name the topic, and we Mormons, like everyone else, can end up in all sorts of emotional and spiritual spaces regarding sexuality: many positive, but many quite confused and inhibiting to intimacy in general, and/or an enjoyable and empowering sex life. In this two-part episode, a wonderful panel of marriage and family counselors who also have certifications in and/or a great deal of experience with sex therapy--Natasha Helfer Parker, Shannon Hickman, Kristin Hodson, and Kristin Marie Bennion--join Mormon Matters host Dan Wotherspoon for a terrific discussion of the issues surrounding sex that are quite common in Mormonism, and among the general public. But, as the title of the episode suggests, the main focus is on the sex-positive messaging that exists in Mormonism, and how we can better include it in our own thinking about and experiences of desire and physical intimacy. How can we create a gospel-based value system that incorporates LDS teachings about the goodness of our bodies, and that sex is not just about procreation but also pleasure and connection and relational intimacy? How do we incorporate and find the proper balance between messaging about the spiritual aspects of human sexuality and the intense and bodily driven emotions and activities that are a key element of sexual fulfillment? The panelists also address LDS teachings about pornography, as well as finding healthy ways to integrate our sexual pasts with our present sex lives--everything from the messaging we grew up with and absorbed into our views about ourselves and our bodies, to guilt over past sexual experimentation, to healing from unwanted sexual advances, even abuse.

Mormonism, like most religions, has many teachings about sex and intimacy. But, like everything else, teachings interact with persons, each with her or his own temperaments and autobiographies. As a result, the same teaching can strike each of us differently. For some, messages about embodied Gods, male and female, is incredibly empowering, even a help to them in developing positive attitudes toward their own sexuality. For others, the same teaching (and all its extensions) can trigger negative reactions as they imagine lives of eternal sex and childbearing, or find other extensions of the teaching problematic and disempowering. For some people, the Law of Chastity becomes an important element in their value system, leading them to take a healthy look at and make empowering choices regarding their sexual desires and actions. For others, it becomes a burden, something imposed upon them, and they end up making choices about sexual practice out of fear--fear of God, parents, church leaders--and as attempts to please others. Name the topic, and we Mormons, like everyone else, can end up in all sorts of emotional and spiritual spaces regarding sexuality: many positive, but many quite confused and inhibiting to intimacy in general, and/or an enjoyable and empowering sex life. In this two-part episode, a wonderful panel of marriage and family counselors who also have certifications in and/or a great deal of experience with sex therapy--Natasha Helfer Parker, Shannon Hickman, Kristin Hodson, and Kristin Marie Bennion--join Mormon Matters host Dan Wotherspoon for a terrific discussion of the issues surrounding sex that are quite common in Mormonism, and among the general public. But, as the title of the episode suggests, the main focus is on the sex-positive messaging that exists in Mormonism, and how we can better include it in our own thinking about and experiences of desire and physical intimacy. How can we create a gospel-based value system that incorporates LDS teachings about the goodness of our bodies, and that sex is not just about procreation but also pleasure and connection and relational intimacy? How do we incorporate and find the proper balance between messaging about the spiritual aspects of human sexuality and the intense and bodily driven emotions and activities that are a key element of sexual fulfillment? The panelists also address LDS teachings about pornography, as well as finding healthy ways to integrate our sexual pasts with our present sex lives--everything from the messaging we grew up with and absorbed into our views about ourselves and our bodies, to guilt over past sexual experimentation, to healing from unwanted sexual advances, even abuse.