In today's episode, we're joined by Rosalia Rivera, Consent Educator, Body Safety expert, and founder of Consent Parenting.

Rosalia opens up about her personal journey and mission to empower parents with the tools they need

to prevent child sex abuse, teach healthy boundaries, and navigate conversations about consent

in the digital age.

With that, let's jump into the conversation.

We hope you'll enjoy this episode of Consider Before Consuming.

Okay, Rosalia, thank you so much for joining us on Consider Before Consuming today.

We're excited to just dive right in. We think our listeners will really learn a lot from what you have to share with us today.

So can you start by just sharing a bit about yourself and what led you to become an advocate for consent parenting and abuse prevention?

Yeah, a little bit about me.

I'm a consent educator and a body safety educator. I really focus on child sexual abuse prevention

and working predominantly with parents and now more and more with schools as well to educate

them on the issue of abuse prevention, the rates of child sexual abuse, and how to, you know, be able to do

something about it to take action.

So beyond just educating their own children, which is, of course, super important, learning

how to talk to other adults about this topic that unfortunately still has a lot of stigma

around it, but I think through conversations like this and conversations in general,

where parents feel confident to have these conversations, we can change the statistics.

And so that's really my goal with the work that I do.

I'm a mom of three boys, and I see that as a really incredible privilege to raise them in a way that breaks

cycles and doesn't create perpetrators into the world like really being conscious about that.

So that's they're the reason I started doing this work and the reason that I'm continuing,

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