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Free Therapy Thursday: Her Parents Are Trying To Change Her Sexuality

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

We have a junior listener that just came out as pansexual and now her parents are trying everything to make her "straight." What can she do to manage the sadness that she's dealing with? It’s Free Therapy Thursday, and we have licensed therapist Andrea Burkly from the "Honest Women" podcast on to give some therapeutic advice to our listener. If you find yourself in the same boat as our listener, here are some resources for you - YOU ARE NOT ALONE. There is a TON of support out there, including organizations set up specifically to help you through this time. You have a community out there who is ready to take you in with open arms and accept you as you are. Check out The Trevor Project. You can find find support, including counselors and crisis support - plus resources on the website. OR you can text START to 678-678. Also, check out this article - "Mental Health Challenges of LGBTQ+ Kids," this book: When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodro, and try practicing these mindful self-compassion exercises. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the podcast equivalent of drinks with your best mom friends if your best mom friends just happen to be therapists

0:06.9

Introducing honest women with Andrea Berkeley and Jessica Hutchison. We know another therapy podcast but it's not the whole be more do better

0:15.3

rotating panel of experts thing 30 minutes no filter and the deep knowledge that

0:20.3

no matter what you're going through, you are not alone.

0:23.6

Listen to Honest Women on Spotify or wherever you get your favorite podcast.

0:28.6

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0:36.7

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0:42.2

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0:57.0

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1:00.0

The Bird Show.

1:01.0

I told you guys a while back I started this podcasting network called Pioneer and one of the first

1:05.5

podcasts that I added to the network was called Honest Women with Andrea Berkeley and

1:11.5

Jessica Hutchinson and it's really really good.

1:14.7

It's really, really good. That's why they're part of the network.

1:17.2

They are two therapists and they just give out advice and personal details about their own life in a way that really makes their advice

1:30.6

palpable and you connect on such a personal level.

1:35.0

So we started doing this free therapy Thursday a while back.

1:38.0

This was Christian's idea.

1:40.0

Yeah, because we're always, we're all of us are such huge advocates of therapy on the show.

1:43.8

I think all of us are in therapy, which is also why we're in radio.

1:46.6

The two kind of go hand in hand, you know, this whole validation and attention seeking

1:50.1

thing.

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