Raising LGBTQ Allies with Chris Tompkins – Just Breathe: Parenting Your LGBTQ Teen Episode 64

3 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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This content was created by Heather Hester. This content was uploaded by Heather Hester. This is a YouTube episode titled "Raising LGBTQ Allies with Chris Tompkins – Just Breathe: Parenting Your LGBTQ Teen Episode 64" (published April 3, 2023). The excerpt is from a podcast-style conversation featuring Chris Tompkins and multiple speakers/hosts. The discussion focuses on parenting and raising allies for LGBTQ youth — affirming and loving young people, unlearning programmed biases, practicing self-love, concerns about saying the wrong thing, and the importance of apologizing and moving on.

Time slowed down and everything that I had experienced, all of those different areas that I just talked about, kind of came together and it was so clear to me.
I love and affirm you for who you are. I'm— I've got your back.
Yeah.
You know, whatever your wording is, there's still all this stuff.
Yeah.
That we've been programmed with our entire lives.
My advice would be to, to remember to love myself, to remember to You can really get stuck in that, "Ooh, I don't want to say the wrong thing. I don't want to be offensive.
I don't want to hurt somebody's feelings." Yeah, get it wrong or make a mistake, apologize and move on. Don't let what you think is happening on the outside determine what is going on on the inside.