An Interview with Candy Motzek – Just Breathe: Parenting Your LGBTQ Teen Episode 60

20 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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Candy Motzek talks about parenting LGBTQ teens, focusing on the difference between listening and hearing, treating parenting like coaching, and accepting fear as a normal emotion instead of fighting it.

And when somebody gets listened to in that way, they really feel heard. They really feel that they matter.
As a parent, is to not just listen, but to hear. And parenting is a form of coaching, right?
I mean, no matter who we're parenting, or if we're just alive humans and our children are now adults, or we're wishing that we could have children, fear is part of it. Fear is not— fear is not going to kill us. Fear is not going to damage our children. Fear is just an emotion. You know, this life, this human experience, and how owning our emotions and owning who we are, exactly who we are, is exactly who we're supposed to be.