United Nations Presentation: Mental Health Harms of Pediatric Gender Affirming Care

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Panelists will consider the mental health impacts of pediatric gender affirming care, examine emerging clinical evidence regarding its harms and ineffectiveness, and analyze current legislation and ongoing policy debates surrounding this issue. Panelists will promote mental health therapies as a safe, child-centered alternative to hormonal or surgical interventions and discuss how these therapies support well-being…

The Christ Candle

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The Longing for Significance There is within each person a need, a yearning for significance, a longing to believe that my life matters, that I have worth and value as a human being. Thousands of self-help books speak to this longing. People have sought to fill this void with their work, their accomplishments, their relationships.…

The Gift of Joy

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Gifts and Gift Giving As we light the third candle of Advent, the Candle of Joy, we pause to reflect on the true nature of joy, revealed not in what we receive, but in the gift God has given to the world in Jesus Christ.  When is a gift truly a gift? There may be…

The Hope for Christmas

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When we hear the words promise, or I promise, we often experience a fair amount of skepticism. How much depends on how often we have seen promises go unfulfilled or been disappointed. In the classic Christmas movie “Jingle All The Way”, the character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger is always making promises to his son and…

Do Not be Afraid

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Fear – it comes at all of us in all manner of ways. Watch the news very long, fear is there. Listen to politicians, fear is there. Doom-scrolling? Fear is implicit in the word. We may fear different things (think spiders, snakes, bats and rats) but we all experience fear (we even have FOMO as…

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ABORTION

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Researchers investigating post-abortion reactions report only one positive emotion: relief. This emotion is understandable, especially in light of the fact that the majority of aborting women report feeling under intense pressure to “get it over with.”8,23 Temporary feelings of relief are frequently followed by a period psychiatrists identify as emotional “paralysis,” or post-abortion “numbness.”18 Like shell-shocked…

Mental Health Harms of Reproductive Loss

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Almost one half of all pregnancies worldwide ends in reproductive loss.[1]   This is a shocking statistic yet, despite the striking frequency of reproductive loss, there is relatively little public discussion about its harms. Not surprising, researchers with different points of view reach different conclusions about the extent of these harms, and these issues continue to…