No one plans for having a transgender kid. Camp Wild Heart is your guide for raising a transgender or non-binary child and nurturing an affirming family. We help you ease your fear and navigate your confusion. Mackenzie Dunham, clinical social worker and co-founder of Wild Heart Society, talks with parents, experts, and transgender adults about the ins and outs of coping with internalized transphobia, fostering shame resilience, exploring medical transition for youth, understanding identity development, knowing what language to use when, and more. Camp Wild Heart is full of people just like you who are lost and searching, brave and afraid, and trying best to do right by their children. You’ll cry--but never alone… and you’ll also laugh, really hard. Welcome.
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No one plans for having a transgender kid. Camp Wild Heart is your guide for raising a transgender or non-binary child and nurturing an affirming family. We help you ease your fear and navigate your confusion. Mackenzie Dunham, clinical social worker and co-founder of Wild Heart Society, talks with parents, experts, and transgender adults about the ins and outs of coping with internalized transphobia, fostering shame resilience, exploring medical transition for youth, understanding identity development, knowing what language to use when, and more. Camp Wild Heart is full of people just like you who are lost and searching, brave and afraid, and trying best to do right by their children. You’ll cry--but never alone… and you’ll also laugh, really hard. Welcome.
08. Healing to Support a Trans Daughter: Shannon's Story
Camp Wild Heart
1 hour 23 seconds
5 months ago
08. Healing to Support a Trans Daughter: Shannon's Story
In today’s episode, we have a parent story from mom, Shannon. Shannon comes from conservative roots and is mom to three boys and a trans daughter. Our conversation follows her journey of doing her own healing work so that she could be the kind of mom she really wanted and needed to be for her daughter.I’m so grateful she agreed to share her story with us about how important it is to be brave and how critical your work as parents is to supporting your kids.Check out the full episode to hear about:* How Shannon’s daughter challenged her identity as a “boy mom” from an early age* How accepting that she didn’t need to understand why her daughter was trans, just that she is, changed the game* How Shannon’s trauma around what it means to be a girl impacted her daughter as she transitioned* The difficult choices Shannon made to give herself space to heal and how they affected her relationship with her daughter* Why Shannon needed to learn self-compassion and generosity in order to repair her relationship with her kidFind out more about Mackenzie Dunham:* Wildheartsociety.org (https://www.wildheartsociety.org/)* wildheartsociety.org/downloads (https://www.wildheartsociety.org/downloads)* Wild Heart Society on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/wildheartsociety)* Wild Heart Society on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/wild.heart.society/)Resources:* Wild Heart Society Merch! (https://www.wildheartsociety.org/shop)* Donate to the Queer Community Network (https://www.queerpnw.org/)
Camp Wild Heart
No one plans for having a transgender kid. Camp Wild Heart is your guide for raising a transgender or non-binary child and nurturing an affirming family. We help you ease your fear and navigate your confusion. Mackenzie Dunham, clinical social worker and co-founder of Wild Heart Society, talks with parents, experts, and transgender adults about the ins and outs of coping with internalized transphobia, fostering shame resilience, exploring medical transition for youth, understanding identity development, knowing what language to use when, and more. Camp Wild Heart is full of people just like you who are lost and searching, brave and afraid, and trying best to do right by their children. You’ll cry--but never alone… and you’ll also laugh, really hard. Welcome.
