Episode 77: Just Breathe | Beyond Disordered Eating & Eating Disorders | Parenting Your LGBTQ Teen

10 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Heather Hester discusses healing from eating disorders and supporting LGBTQ teens. She emphasizes separating yourself from disordered eating behaviors, recognizing you have choices, and creating safe spaces without judgment. She advises parents to "Don't should on yourself" and act as allies at social events.

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Healing from an eating disorder is often about diffusing that, separating, separating the element of who I am versus the eating. If you ask me to stop doing these things, I don't know who I am without that. The gift of this conversation and, and of this awareness is that we can then pass this on to our kids, creating a very safe space for them to be vulnerable. If they go to a holiday or a party or a family event, be their ally. Be the person that they can go to, give you a look, have some code that they can do. Don't should on yourself. She said, "Don't should on yourself," right? Right. Love it. And I use it all the time. And then the idea that we have choices, which for me, I was like, "Oh, I do? Like, I don't have to do that? There are choices?" Yes, we have choices. There are always choices.