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Are you smiling through meetings, school pick-ups, and family dinners while silently falling apart inside?
You’re not alone and you’re not broken. Many parents of LGBTQ+ kids are living two parallel lives: the one everyone sees, and the one consumed by fear, shame, and “what if” spirals. In this raw and revealing episode, Heather Hester breaks the silence around the emotional cost of trying to hold it all together and why real strength starts with dropping the mask.
- Learn how chronic parental fear mimics trauma and what that means for your mind, body, and relationships
- Understand why emotional isolation is not protecting your family, but quietly dismantling trust and connection
- Discover how seeking support isn’t weakness, it’s the first step in becoming the grounded, resilient parent your child needs
Press play now to finally name the double life you’ve been living and start walking a path toward healing, connection, and fierce, unapologetic allyship.
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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 foster courageous, compassionate connection.
If you’re in the thick of parenting, allyship, or pioneering a way to lead with love and kindness, I’m here with true, messy, and heart-warming stories, real tools, and grounding support to help you move from fear to fierce, informed action.
Whether you’re listening in, working with me directly, or quietly taking it all in, I see you. And I’m so glad you’re part of this journey.
More Human. More Kind. formerly Just Breathe: Parenting Your LGBTQ Teen is a safe and supportive podcast and space where a mom and mental health advocate offers guidance on parenting with empathy, inclusion, and open-minded allyship, fostering growth, healing, and empowerment within the LGBTQ community—including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals—while addressing grief, boundaries, education, diversity, human rights, gender identity, sexual orientation, social justice, and the power of human kindness through a lens of ally support and community engagement.
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