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| Raising Sex Healthy Children excerpt from The Meaning of Sex: A New Christian Ethos
Every day we live and work outside our home (and even some days when we are in the home) our brains encounter a small amount of trauma from hurting people we interact with, disturbing images we see, unkind phrases we hear, and unloving experiences we experience with a sinful, fallen world.
Every time we send our children out of the home, to school or social activities, they come back traumatized, and it is our job as parents to understand how damaging these experiences really are for their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. We need to make efforts to help them heal this trauma on a daily basis. It is often this unhealed trauma that causes them to make poor choices for themselves, and eventually, with those they relate with and attach to as teenagers and adults.
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| As parents, our love and guidance provides children with a secure base of attachment, a springboard, if you will, to launch into the world. If they experience a safe, secure, and nurturing environment at home, they will undoubtedly seek that out as adults in communities and relationships with like-minded people. But if they experience chaos, abuse, and mistreatment in the home, that damaged template will likely cause them to be unconsciously drawn to unhealthy surroundings as adults. I believe there are a few essentials for mom and dad to practice to achieve this healthy environment. Click here to read more of chapter 8 of Christopher Doyle's new book, The Meaning of Sex: A New Christian Ethos.
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| Institute for Healthy Families and Christopher Doyle in the Media |
| | Arizona bill would ban 'conversion therapy' for LGBT youths
Arizona this year could become the 10th state to bar mental-health professionals from practicing "conversion therapy," making attempts to change a minor's sexual orientation or gender identity illegal.
"Each client’s goals are quite different. Some might come in and say, 'I believe I am gay, but this is not working for me and I'd like to find a way to live in congruence with my faith and not act on this,'" said Christopher Doyle, a therapist and coordinator for the National Task Force for Therapy Equality. The coalition works to defeat bans like the one being proposed in Arizona. "You also have clients who say, 'I started having feelings of same-sex attraction after I was abused, and I feel this problem is emotional versus sexual,'" Doyle said. "I have a problem with the term 'conversion therapy,' because it's more complex and nuanced than that. People have the right to make choices and abide by their values." Click here to read more. |
| | Christopher Doyle Interviewed on Virginia's "Conversion Therapy" Ban Bill on Washington, DC's Fox 5 News
Virginia legislators have submitted a bill that would ban conversion therapy for minors in the state, as well as limit allowing state funds for conversion therapy.
The bill, which was authored by Sen. Scott Surovell (D) from District 36 from Fairfax County would prohibit sexuality conversion therapy for people under 18 by "any health care provider or person who performs counseling by licensed professionals." Click here to watch the interview with Christopher Doyle on Washington, DC's Fox 5 News.
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| | Watch Christopher Doyle's Presentation on Adolescent Sexual Health
Click here to watch IHF Executive Director, Christopher Doyle, discuss adolescent sexual health and his book, Benefits of Delaying Sexual Debut, at the 2017 Joint Conference with the American College of Pediatricians and American Association of Pro-Life OBGYN's in Chicago, IL (Photo: Christopher Doyle with American College of Pediatricians President, Dr. Michelle Cretella). |
| | Institute for Healthy Families (IHF) specializes in counseling solutions for individuals, couples, families, therapists, and ministry leaders. IHF is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit therapeutic organization located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. As a Judeo-Christian organization, IHF believes that the family is the foundation for healthy individuals, relationships, communities, and places of worship. While IHF is non-sectarian, we believe that God reveals His truth in both the Bible and Creation and that we can use this wisdom to help facilitate healing. IHF believes that through this synthesis of science and faith, we can help our clients form and maintain healthy families that will be able to help their children become the best versions of themselves and fulfill God’s will for their lives. For more information, visit our website at: www.InstituteforHealthyFamilies.org
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