334- Setting the Stage for Shame-Free Puberty with Melissa Pintor Carnagey

Voices of Your Village

Before we dive in: this episode includes a discussion of sexual assault. Please take care while listening. You're listening to Voices of Your Village, and today I got to hang out with my friend Melissa Pintor Carnagey. Melissa's newest book Growing Into You is so phenomenal. Melissa's a renowned sexuality educator, bestselling author, and leading national voice for sex positive education in youth and families. Her work has been featured in the Huffington Post Parents magazine, CNN, New York Times, Buzzfeed and reaches thousands of families around the globe via an engaged social media following and monthly live workshops through their Growing Into You virtual puberty education programming. Growing Into You is a book that is currently just like living in my house because I feel like, and you'll hear it in this interview, I just have so much learning to do in this space. It's something I did not grow up with. It's something that often feels uncomfortable for me. I find myself often having more questions than answers, where I don't know how to respond to this thing that my child just said and I need resources and support on it. And Melissa is my very first place I turn for that and has been for such a long time. I followed them on Instagram for years and it was so nice to get to sit down and ask these questions and dive into this with them. I'm super excited to share this episode on Setting the Stage for Shame-Free Puberty with Melissa. All right, folks, let's dive in.

Connect with Melissa:

Instagram: @sexpositive_families

Website: sexpositivefamilies.com

Order the book: Growing into You!: An Inclusive, Shame-Busting, Get-Real Guide to Your Changing Body and Mind

Books Melissa Recommends:

Your Whole Body: From Your Head to Your Toes, and Everything in Between by Lizzie DeYoung Charbonneau

My Body! What I Say Goes! by Jayneen Sanders

Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept by Jayneen Sanders

What Makes a Baby by Cory Silverberg

The Science of Babies

It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn

Browse more great resources by topic, age, and type at sexpositivefamilies.com/resources

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