Breaking Shame by Talking Early

Every week now, somebody says to me, "I'm struggling with tremendous shame and guilt. I still don't have the proper view on sexuality." If somebody would have said a few of those lines to me at 11, 12, 13, or 14, the entire course of my life would have been different. And they're telling this to me in tears as adults with families. And to me, in terms of helping people, once a person struggles with tremendous mental health symptoms, anxiety, depression, shame, to rebuild them takes a tremendous amount of time and money and effort and they're so pained and so broken. If we could prevent this by having some conversations by us standing up as adults and yes, it's uncomfortable and we didn't have models for this. And that's why I spend so much time and energy trying to give people a roadmap on how to do this. We step up for these kids. They respond. [Music]