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Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Episode 749: Cameo & Cooper Johnson, LDS Parents of a Queer Daughter

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8839 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

My friends Cameo and Cooper Johnson (LDS parents of 4 children, live in Flagstaff AZ, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners) join us to share their story from the perspective of both LDS parents of a queer daughter (RM, engaged to another RM woman) and their professional work specializing in supporting LDS LGBTQ individuals and families. In the episode, the Johnsons bring unique and helpful perspectives from their experience as parents and also work as mental health practitioners that help all of us. Some of the topics covered by the Johnsons include: 1. Why they are excited and supportive of their daughter’s same-sex marriage. 2. Why they stay members of the Church. 3. What gives them hope and peace for their “eternal family”. 4. What gives them hope for the future of the Church. 5. The difference between core values and core beliefs. 6. How to better see and support families who fit “outside of the idealized version”. 7. The parable of the Good Samaritan. 8. How personal growth often occurs “when we look inward and check ourselves.” This is one of the best podcasts we’ve done as the Johnsons bring their clinical experience and parental experience to help us better love and support our queer family members and friends. I encourage you to listen to this episode and share it with others. Thank you, Cameo and Cooper Johnson, for being on the podcast and your work to help bring us together as the same human family. Honored to have you on the podcast! Links: Cameo Johnson, PMHNP Ponderosa Psychiatry https://www.ponderosapsychiatry.com/ [email protected] Psychology Today Profile: https://www.psychologytoday.com/profile/737606 Cooper Johnson, PMHNP Advanced Mental Health and Wellness https://advancedmhw.com/ [email protected] Psychology Today Profile: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/psychiatrists/advanced-mental-health-wellness-williams-az/441627

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0:00.0

Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.

0:09.6

My guests on today's podcast are a married couple, joining me via Zoom from their home in Flagstaff, Arizona.

0:17.7

Camio and Cooper Johnson, welcome to the podcast.

0:24.2

Thank you for having us. We're so excited to be here.

0:29.7

Yeah, thank you so much. We appreciate all the work you do. I've never been to Flagstaff listeners, but at some place I'd love to go because it's higher in the mountains of Arizona. It's greener.

0:35.2

It's wetter. It's a place that I understand is really beautiful.

0:39.4

So I wish I were there physically to see Flagstaff firsthand.

0:44.4

I became...

0:45.0

Welcome any time to come visit.

0:47.5

I became aware of the Johnsons when somebody posted an Arizona State University LDS Institute event where different people were speaking.

0:57.8

And I believe, I can't remember both of you were speaking there, just cameo, but they were there as mental health professionals and parents of a queer child and also active Latter-day Saints talking about how to better support

1:12.4

LGBTQ Latter-day Saints.

1:15.6

So that's when the Johnson's got on my radar map, and then I had the chance to meet them

1:20.3

personally when there was an event that I spoke at at the McDonald's house, Eric and Liz

1:26.0

McDonald, and I got a chance to visit with Cameo and Cooper Johnson.

1:30.8

And I just felt a really strong impression that they needed to be on the podcast to share their story.

1:36.8

They're a married couple.

1:38.4

They're in their 40s.

1:39.7

They've been married about 25 years.

1:41.6

They have four kids.

1:43.3

Their oldest child, Cooper Cooper is gay. She served

1:46.6

a mission in Santa Rosa. We'll be talking about her. And they have a couple sons that have

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