Category Archives: Mental Health and Psychology

First Things: Confronting Fear

After you stop believing or decide to stop affiliating with the Church, you will probably feel fear. Here’s an overview of what fear is, when it’s useful, and how you might start to confront and manage Church-derived and existential fears.

First Things: 5 Tips for Setting Boundaries

What is a boundary? A boundary is a limit or a rule that you set for your life to keep yourself healthy and happy.

Here are the Eternity of Cats rules for setting boundaries.

Ex-Mormon Anger, Part 3: Deconstructing Teachings on “Contention”

Today, we’ll talk about how LDS teachings about contention can prevent people from developing conflict-resolution skills and ultimately hurt relationships.

Ex-Mormon Anger, Part 2: LDS Teachings on Anger

In Part 1, we talked about what anger is and why it is important. In Part 2, we’re going to deconstruct some LDS teachings on anger. (We’ll deal with teachings on “contention” specifically in Part 3.)

For orthodox members, anger can be overwhelming, disturbing, incomprehensible, and possibly Satanic. So amid your faith transition, your anger may make you feel out of control.

I hope this will help. After you read this, you may want to go back to Part 1 and review what healthy anger is.