How can I support my LGBTQ brother who recently came out, and support my parents who are heartbroken about it?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

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🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In this episode, Dr. Julie Hanks coaches Melissa and addresses the question “How can I support my LGBTQ brother who recently came out, and support my parents who are heartbroken about it?” There’s some grieving that comes along with families shifting and changing. When this happens, the family won’t be the same. During this episode, Dr. Hanks validates Melissa that right now, people in her family are in a lot of pain, and that’s hard. This episode focuses on how we can nurture empathy wi...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to
0:23.2	prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your fate. I'm your host,
0:29.2	Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women
0:34.6	all over the world heal themselves and their relationships. Join me here every week
0:39.6	as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them with tools to find healing.
0:45.3	Today on the show, I'm happy to welcome Melissa. Welcome. Hi. Thanks for being here. Yeah, thanks for
0:53.2	having me.
0:56.3	So what is your question for me today?
1:11.6	I want to ask you about how I can support both my brother who has recently come out as gay and also my parents who are kind of heartbroken by it and struggling with it and how I can bridge the gap between them.
1:18.7	Okay. This may seem like a weird question, but is it your job to bridge the gap between them?
1:26.4	It is not, and I recognize that, but it's also like, it does affect me in that it's hard to watch my parents be so sad and it's hard to worry
1:29.7	about my brother and so it's not my job to bridge it but it weighs on me okay gotcha so in a way
1:38.2	helping bridge that would create less pain for you yeah and like I know that the situation is not about me,
1:46.7	but it, it has certainly like affected my entire family dynamic. So, you know, I don't want to
1:54.1	make it about me, but it is like my, what the family I have always known is different now.
1:59.4	Yeah. Yeah.
2:07.3	So there's some grieving that comes along with families shifting and changing.
2:08.7	Yeah.
2:10.2	Your family won't be the same.
2:11.3	Yeah.
2:17.8	It doesn't mean it won't be awesome and great in different ways, but it won't be the same.
2:18.5	Right.
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