186. A Banned Book, Helping the Next Generation, and Closing the orgasm gap by 2040

You Are Not Broken

Kelly Casperson, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

5 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Carrie Leff is a practicing Internist and Pediatrician in Michigan. She is passionate about Adolescent and Women's health. Dr. Leff is on a mission to educate teens about their bodies and to help parents become more comfortable with difficult conversations with their kids. She is the mother of 3 daughters, a professional multi-tasker and a believer in the power of women. Dr. Leff co-wrote Celebrate Your Body 2: The Ultimate Puberty Book for Preteen and Teen Girls in 2019. It is a #1 Best seller in in Teen & Young Adult Health Books on Sexuality & Pregnancy on Amazon. We met at the ISSWSH conference March 2022 in Texas – we were both giving lectures. “Mommy, I feel like you wrote this book just for me” – Dr. Leff’s daughter Why she wrote this book and created a program about puberty? How puberty is like menopause. She discusses when puberty starts and what first signs are. What does an all-American puberty education in a public school look like? “Talking to your kids should be 30 one minute conversations, not one 30 minute conversation” – Dr. Leff “Our kids aren’t connecting puberty and sex unless we make that connection for them” – Dr. Leff If you can’t/won’t discuss puberty with your kids then you are teaching them that you aren’t a resource for this information. I love how you call private parts “personal parts” – why is this important? So many middle aged women have body shame – when does this start? How she found out her book was banned. Consent – example of trying a shirt on at a store - - so important – many middle age women don’t practice consent. How to close the orgasm gap by 2040 – her plan A golden question, “how will you know you are ready to have sex?” Moms buying teens their first vibrators – thoughts and her experience You didn’t bring up birth control – when to bring it up, how to bring it up, resources for adults. You wrote an op-ed for the Washington post about your book getting banned: “Some parents believe that telling children the truth about sex and our bodies will spoil their innocence. But innocence and ignorance are not the same.” Celebrate Your Body 2 Book: https://amzn.to/3dLZzc7 https://turningteen.com/ https://www.instagram.com/drcarrieleff/ Did you get the You Are Not Broken Book Yet? https://amzn.to/3p18DfK Join my membership to get these episodes ASAP when they are created and without advertisement and even listen live to the interviews and episodes. www.kellycaspersonmd.com/membership Our podcast sponsor is Bonafide Bonafide products help women embrace the natural changes that occur throughout all phases of life. Discount code for 20% off:NOTBROKEN Sales link: https://hellobonafide.com/notbroken --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kj-casperson/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to You Are Not Broken, the only podcast that combines science, medicine, and psychology to re-educate your brain and help you live your best love life.
0:11.4	And I'm your host, board certified female urologist, Dr. Kelly Casperson.
0:16.1	Hey, everybody.
0:17.0	I'm so excited to have my friend, Dr. Carrie Leff here, to talk about her book, Celebrate Your Body 2, the Ultimate Puberty Book for Preteen and Teen Girls. I'm so glad you're here.
0:26.0	I'm so glad to be here. Thanks for having me. We met in March, I think, in Texas at the
0:30.9	Ishwish 2020 meeting. Yes. And I was like, she needs to be my friend. She's from Michigan. They're all my friends.
0:38.9	Midwesterners are good.
0:41.0	Totally, we're eating like snacks next to each other. I'm like, this is cool.
0:44.4	You are already an author by then. I was. My book is not super new. But it's still big.
0:51.7	Like, it's still number one. Yeah.
0:55.7	And you're like, I suppose.
0:57.0	I'm still, like, that's awesome.
0:57.4	Well, no.
1:00.2	So I was going to just tell you this story, which is kind of interesting. So I have, I have three daughters.
1:02.5	And two of them are like teenagers, one's 16 now and one's 14.
1:06.8	And then I have one that's a bit younger who's going to be 11. And so I actually, and I can go on this a little bit,
1:12.7	started turning to you when my older girls were younger, but I wrote this book like about four years ago.
1:19.7	And my older girls were sort of going through, you know, pubertal transitions at that time.
1:24.1	And I put it away for a little bit. I gave it to them. I read it with them.
1:28.7	Then now my younger one is like going through puberty. And she wanted to read the book with me.
1:33.3	And so a couple weeks ago or maybe a month ago or so, we like kind of laid down together and
1:38.2	I let her pick a chapter every night. And what was so interesting is she turned to me and she's like, mommy, I feel like you're writing this book just for me. And just based on like what was going on with her socially at the time.
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