Subject: Only a Few Spaces Remain for IHF's Spring Retreats!

March 30, 2023
Key to Your Child's Heart 
Mother's Healing Weekend
Hagerstown, Maryland
April 28-30, 2023


The weekend is designed for mothers of a same-sex attracted or LGBT-identified child. The goal is for each mother to grow personally and as a Parent/Coach, to learn how to better love and understand your struggling child, and to uncover how your own unresolved issues may be blocking your family’s path to healing. This weekend away is set at our beautiful country farmhouse retreat in rural Maryland. Our small group of 8-12 mothers is a safe place to process, learn, and heal. You will leave with answers, tools, techniques, and hope to help yourself, your child, and your family.

Break Free Your Inner Child Healing Retreat for Men
Lake Anna, Virginia
May 26-30, 2023

Our annual inner child healing retreat is a place where you can connect with other men and work toward discovering and healing childhood wounds. Working with other men, you have a chance to discover your true self and overcome those things that hold you back from really flourishing.

The group will work through:

  • Discovering and healing childhood wounds
  • Learning how your inner child adapted from his true self
  • Learning how to get authentic needs met
Key to Your Child's Heart 
Father's Healing Weekend

Rescheduled to Fall 2023. Dates TBD.

This weekend provides fathers of same-sex attracted or LGBT-identified children the opportunity to connect with other dads that are in the same position, and learn together how they can rise up and face the challenges that affect their families and children. Fathers will gain great insight into their child’s needs by learning, growing, and taking part in group activities with each other during this interactive weekend. Dads will be empowered by understanding how their own background has influenced parenting styles, while at the same time, realizing how they can lead their children and family into a healthier future. This weekend away is set at a beautiful country farmhouse retreat in rural Maryland. Our small group of fathers is a safe place to process, learn, and heal. Dads will leave with answers, tools, techniques, and hope!
Institute for Healthy Families In the News
Family of 'non-binary' ex-Biden official: Torture 'never happened'

Brinton's sister says family was 'slandered,' never sent him to get 'conversion therapy'


The family of Sam Brinton — former high-level Biden nuclear-waste appointee, alleged luggage-stealer and self-described "gender-fluid bisexual" — is finally speaking out publicly to debunk what they say are lies he told about them.

"Former Biden Department of Energy official Sam Brinton claims to have been beaten by their [his] father, who held a gun to their [his] head and forced them [him] into [ex-gay] conversion therapy — but their [his] family insist it is all lies," reported the New York Post Feb. 19, using Brinton's "preferred pronouns" of "they/them."

Christopher Doyle . . . told WND that Brinton was "the biggest player in the 'anti-conversion-therapy activist movement' before his downfall. Doyle is associated with the Institute for Healthy Families, based in Virginia.

In his book, The War on Psychotherapy: When Sexual Politics, Gender Ideology and Mental Health Collide, Doyle describes how Brinton, then a lobbyist for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, took his false testimony to the U.N.'s Special Committee on Torture. Click here to read more at World Net Daily.
Ex-gays respond to Andy Stanley’s claim that LGBT people have ‘more faith than a lot of you’

Christians who once identified as homosexual have mixed opinions about recent remarks made by Pastor Andy Stanley, in which the megachurch leader said that LGBT individuals who go to church have “more faith than a lot of you.”

Christopher Doyle, a professional counselor and executive director of the Institute for Healthy Families, told The Christian Post that, because the full sermon is not easily accessible online, Stanley’s “words leave me with more questions than answers.”

“I appreciate Pastor Stanley's compassion for Christians struggling with sexual and gender identity. As a young man, I experienced unwanted same-sex attractions and having a safe place surrounded by loving, embracing Christians would have really helped me on my healing journey,” said Doyle. Click here to read more at The Christian Post. 
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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