Welcome to a bonus episode of the whole view. I'm Stacy Toth of Real Everything and I'm here each week to dive deeper into how we can find happiness and health inside and out through self-love, body positivity and discovering new ways to be our

best-offs. Before we get started a reminder that this podcast is for general

educational purposes and it's not intended to diagnose advice or treat any

physical or mental illness and we always recommend that you see

a licensed health professional accordingly. I also want to give a little bit of a

warning that we're probably going to touch on suicidality and harm that can come to non-supported LGBTQ youth in this show.

So if that's something that you need to protect yourself from, please do so accordingly. I am having a lot of my own personal experience with that that I will probably speak to and I'm excited to do so with Jamie who is I'd like to call you a friend we've

been friends online but it's our first official time being like face-to-face on

video here Jamie Bruzahoff is an award-winning advocate speaker and heartfelt writer. She is an

openly queer woman married to a Lutheran pastor and mom to three spirited children,

including a 16-year-old transgender daughter.

Is Rebecca still 16?

He is 17.

Jamie is passionate about sharing her family's story because she believes that our stories

are bridges to understanding compassion and

celebration and her first book, Raising kids beyond the binary celebrating God's

transgender and gender diverse children as available now where books are sold and as a science-based

show I'm just gonna like put it out there that hosting anything spiritual in nature is

very out of the ordinary and I think that is what kind of brought me to want to have

this conversation with Jamie and to share with you're

with listeners because in this world of divisiveness and hatred, I think the work that you're doing,

Jamie, to bridge the gap between religion and human rights is something I really

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