Therapist Natasha Helfer talks about grooming in a Mormon context.

[@mormonstories]

Watch the entire episode on our KZbin channel! Episode 1974.

[@donnellallan]

Excellent comment. Thank you. 🩷

[@JanetSacco]

Asking a 8 year old to be pure puzzle's me! What 8 year old should even have to know what pure means. They are just kids

[@hippogriffkeeper]

Amen. 🙏🏼 I had a bishop's temple worthiness interview when I was 12 (of course, alone, just me and him in the room and my mom waited in the hall) and he asked me if I obeyed the law of chastity. Despite having grown up in the church, _I didn't even know what the hell that meant._ 😭 I asked "What is that?" He then clarified and asked if I ever let anyone touch me inappropriately, so I said no, and we moved on. I won the bishop lottery thankfully. 😭 At the time I had no idea that sitting in a room with a man alone at that age is frowned upon in other contexts. 😭

[@JulianS-xu6ff]

Trust yourself first. Positions of power encourage corruption.

[@michelemiller3798]

OBEDIENCE is so highly emphasized vs listening to your own conscience. Trust your gut!

[@jessicamasonsonneborn4864]

You’ve done amazing things for me.

[@joannvandenberg4792]

The power of decernment is gone in the church. I am afraid for the young in the church now.

[@Mikleray]

The power of discernment never existed.The phrase " power of discernment " is for programming the mind,it works very well with people of a cult mentality like myself.

[@monyetgoblog7038]

They never had any discernment. Not exactly discernment to be following a dead cho-mo.

[@dbottar2209]

Unsure why it took me until my 50s to realize God choosing a teen girl to be the virgin to deliver Jesus was the Christian church's first example of requiring zero consent from underage girls.

[@ashtorethashtoreth1301]

So wrong lol.