46. Sexual Abuse Prevention and Consent with Rosalia Rivera

Motherhood Meets Medicine

Lynzy Coughlin

Medicine, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Have you ever had a bad feeling about dropping your child off at an unfamiliar place? Whether it’s a daycare, camp, or even a friend's house, there’s likely a reason that our mother’s instinct kicks in. Rosalia Rivera joined me in a conversation regarding child abuse and I was shocked to hear how prevalent it is. Although the topic may seem uncomfortable, Rosalia provides us with tips to educate and empower our children to ensure their safety. Rosalia is a passionate consent educator, sexual literacy advocate, TEDx speaker, change agent, and survivor turned thriver. She is also the host of the About Consent Podcast, the founder of Consent Parenting, and Consentwear. She has three missions; to help parents and caregivers to empower their children and lives through consent education, to help childhood sexual trauama survivors find their voice, rediscover their power, and reclaim their innate sexual divinity, and to dismantle shame around sexuality through education and awareness. In this episode we discuss: How to start teaching your children about body safety Reframing the conversation of sexual abuse prevention with our children The definition of grooming and signs to look out for What “secret safety” is and how it can be a great defense Different safety strategies to give your child based on their age Recommendations to educate children who are at a higher risk for abuse Resources: CONSENTparenting Tools and Resources Grooming Handout Consent Letters Book: Can I Give You a Squish Book: C is for Consent Book: A Hug Book: I said No Kimberly King Body Boss Bootcamp Connect with Rosalia: Website Podcast Facebook: @CONSENTparenting Instagram: @consentparenting Vlog/Blog SHOW NOTES: https://lynzyandco.com/podcast/ Follow along on Instagram @motherhoodmeetsmedicine. Join the Motherhood Meets Medicine community at patreon.com/motherhoodmeetsmedicine. Disclaimer: This podcast does not provide medical advice. The information on this podcast is for informational purposes only. No material on this site is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, today's episode is with Rosalía Rivera. Rosalía is a passionate consent
0:12.2	educator, sexual literacy advocate, TED speaker, change agent, and survivor-turned-friver.
0:21.5	She is also the host of About Consent Podcast, the founder of Consent Parenting, and
0:27.8	Creatrix of Consent Wear. She has three missions. Number one, to help parents and caregivers
0:34.5	to empower their children and their lives through consent education. Number two, to help childhood
0:40.7	sexual trauma survivors find their voice. We discover their power and reclaim their innate
0:45.9	sexual divinity. And number three, to dismantle shame around sexuality through education and awareness.
0:53.4	In today's episode, we talk about how a parent can get started teaching their kids about
0:57.0	body safety, the definition of grooming and signs to look out for, defining secret safety,
1:03.9	age-appropriate discussions, and more. Let's dive right in. Just a little disclaimer before
1:10.3	we start this episode. This podcast does not provide medical advice. The information on this
1:15.7	podcast is for informational purposes only. No material on this site is intended to be a substitute
1:21.3	for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Good evening, Rosalia. How are you today?
1:30.8	I'm great. Thank you so much for having me. Yes, we're excited to have you. I think this is a great
1:36.8	topic for everybody to learn more about. And I'd love to jump in just talking to you about
1:44.3	your website consent parenting, just kind of how you got into that and what made you launch that.
1:49.0	And I know you also have a podcast that's about consent and it has some really excellent topics
1:55.8	on there as well. So if you just want to talk a little bit as to how you got started with all
2:00.3	that, that would be awesome. Sure. I actually have a background in marketing and I was working as a,
2:06.4	well, I had an agency and when my child was about five, he wanted to do summer camp, which was
2:13.8	great because I needed, you know, to keep him going somewhere and had gone transitioning from having
2:20.4	someone care for my child at home to now putting them somewhere new. And when I signed him up,
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