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Protecting LGBTQ Kids: Love Is the Start, Not the Strategy
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Are you truly protecting your LGBTQ child - or just hoping love will be enough?
In a world where safety for LGBTQ+ youth is under attack, many parents and allies feel overwhelmed, unsure how to provide real protection at home. This episode tackles the urgent need for emotional, psychological, and identity-based safety and offers a powerful framework to help families create affirming environments that truly protect.
- Learn 5 simple yet transformative ways to make your home safer and more affirming for LGBTQ+ youth
- Gain the confidence and language to set loving but firm boundaries with extended family and friends
- Find strength and solidarity through connection to a growing, affirming community of families and advocates
Hit play to start building a home where your LGBTQ+ child feels safe, seen, and fiercely supported every single day.
Hi, I’m Heather Hester, and I’m so glad you’re here!
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At the heart of my work is a deep commitment to compassion, authenticity, and transformative allyship, especially for those navigating the complexities of parenting LGBTQ kids. Through this podcast, speaking, my writing, and the spaces I create, I help people unlearn bias, embrace their full humanity, and grow their capacity for courageous connection.
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More Human. More Kind. formerly Just Breathe: Parenting Your LGBTQ Teen is a safe and supportive podcast in a heartfelt and empowering space where a mom and advocate offers the wisdom of lived experience and practical guidance and education to parents and allies, teaching empathy, kindness, love, and strong boundaries while supporting LGBTQ teens and the diverse LGBTQ community, including gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, transgender, and queer individuals, through conversations about mental health, grief, gender identity, sexual orientation,