Parenting with Pride Unlearn Bias and Embrace, Empower, and Love Your LGBTQ+ Teen

by Hester, Heather

• ISBN13: 9781641709125
• ISBN10: 164170912X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781641704410
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2024-05-14
• Publisher: Familius

Summary

The ultimate LGBTQ parenting handbook, guiding parents and caregivers through transformative steps of Embrace, Educate, Empower, and Love so they can support their teen with open arms and hearts.

Your kid just came out to you, and amid the flurry of emotion or worry you might feel, you know you would do anything to protect their health and happiness. And you are not alone!

Heather Hester, coach, advocate, and host of the #1 rated podcast, Just Breathe: Parenting Your LGBTQ Teen, combines personal experience, professional research, and stories from other families to create a compassionate, practical guide for parents of LGBTQ+ teens.

In Parenting with Pride, Hester provides parents and caregivers with four transformations that gently, but purposefully, walk them toward fully supporting and loving their LGBTQ+ child: Embrace, Educate (or Unlearn), Empower, and Love.

With trustworthy information and an accessible, straightforward plan, Parenting with Pride provides actionable tools and mental shifts to help parents support their teens and themselves and to help them become a catalyst for change in their communities.

Author Biography

Heather Hester is the founder of Chrysalis Mama which provides support and education to parents and allies of LGBTQIA adolescents, teenagers, and young adults. She is also the creator and host of the podcast Just Breathe: Parenting your LGBTQ Teen. As an advocate and coach for parents and allies, she believes the coming out process is equal parts beautiful and messy. She works with her clients to let go of fear and feelings of isolation so that they can reconnect with themselves and their children in a meaningful, grounded way. Heather creates a space where growth and shifts can occur through education and empowerment, instilling the confidence that anyone can move through the coming-out process with understanding and love. She is also a speaker and consultant for corporations, teaching how to be better LGBTQ+ allies from the inside out. Heather is a writer and entrepreneur, married to her best friend of 28 years, the mother of four extraordinary kids (two of whom are LGBTQIA), and a student of life who believes in being authentic and embracing the messiness.