Read more about the article Girls Camp, Grace, and the Bishop’s Office

Girls Camp, Grace, and the Bishop’s Office

Emily Belle Freeman has written more than a dozen books and spoken at a variety of conferences, workshops, and gatherings. She taught for many years in the Church Educational System and has served in numerous callings in the Church, including in Young Women, Sunday School, Relief Society, and fourteen times as girls camp director. She was called to be the next Young Women General President at the April 2023 general conference. Emily has a deep love of the scriptures, which comes from a desire to find their application in everyday life, and her greatest joy comes from spending time with her family. Highlights

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Building Community

We live in a time of unprecedented loneliness. Even in the luckiest of circumstances, when we're surrounded by supportive friends and family, we might be feeling crushing loneliness in one facet of our lives or another. Maybe you have a chronic illness that no one seems to understand. Or maybe it feels like you're the only one that's struggling to raise a troublesome toddler. Whatever the circumstances, there's a community out there that can help. In this final installment of The Lisa Show's series on Your Life Online, Lisa talks to friends and experts to learn how we can use the internet tools at our disposal to feel a little less isolated and alone.

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Read more about the article Recognizing Trauma in Your Body

Recognizing Trauma in Your Body

When we come to earth we begin our journey of mortality by getting a body. Our body and spirit start to experience all the joys and pains of living life as a human being. All of us in one way or the other will experience situations that can be classified as trauma. The body's response to these situations is the way God designed it to be so that the body can protect us as needed. However, as you will hear coach Cami Birdo speak about today, trauma is never meant to stay in the body yet so many hold onto it and carry this unnecessary burden through their lives. Cami wants everyone to know that there are ways to release trauma and find the healing you deserve. 

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