Please consider pre-ordering my new book 'What Your Teen is Trying to Tell You?'
Available NOW for pre-order in a number of bookshops and online
Hi,
Just resharing this short request to ask that if you support my work, will you please consider pre-ordering my new book ‘What Your Teen is Trying to Tell You?’ as it is being published next week on March 9th.
In the publishing industry , pre-orders are very important and make a massive difference to the marketing of the book and to subsequent orders and so I would really appreciate it if you would consider supporting me.
In the book I include all the issues that impact teenagers and young people today and I outline practical ways that parents can help. I've put my heart and soul into this book, during very difficult circumstances, and if you are a parent of a teen or a young adult I think you could find it really helpful.
As you probably know, the mental health of young people is a subject that is very close to my heart, I was a very unhappy teenager myself and I often work with distressed teens and their parents. While I know that therapy can be really valuable, parents often tell me that it can often feel disempowering when their teens attend therapy and so I wrote this book in a bid to help parents help their teens in their own home.
'What Your Teen is Trying to Tell You?' is available NOW for pre-order in a number of bookshops and online, please see the links below:
Amazon.co.uk - click link here
Kennys.ie - click link here
(*an independent bookseller, who will ship overseas)
Easons.com - click link here
Bookstation.ie - click link here
Bookdepository.com - click link here
Thank you for your support. It means a lot to me.
Regards,
Stella
Released at the end of March. Yikes! Thanks for ordering the book.
Done. And echoing the thoughts of those who’ve said thanks for what you do. My coparent and I have only been listening to you for four weeks but I’ve made it through half the episodes of your podcast with Sasha. Our 14 year old girl has been on Lupron for two years. She started to ask for T and top surgery. We went to the clinic appointment and in the process of glossing over the harms of T (as she had glossed over the blocker harms), the doctor allowed me to interrupt to ask if there were studies and data about long term success. She said “look at the Dutch study”. That’s what actually lead me to your podcast and the last four weeks of reading more medical studies than I had in my life. I hadn’t even heard the word “detransitioned”, or so I thought but it rang a bell and I recalled a lengthy post on social media a while back from a young adult who used to babysit our kids. This young adult, born female, did the whole transmedical “conveyor belt” (her words) in high school and is NOW a detransitioned lesbian. She came over and shared her story after a dinner and games with the kids, who remember her fondly.
(A bit of backstory: We had also been talking with our daughter, who identifies as non-binary, with they/them and wears a blend of masculine and feminine clothing (skirts). They have said they are trans and now non-binary, which started after puberty started at age 10.5 (they also have depression, anxiety, and ASD and have been bullied at school). As we parents learned from you and the resources available, we began to start talking with our daughter about this medical route and what is known about it, but the conversations seem to be the beginning of many that we would have, a long marathon ahead of keeping the compassionate dialogue going in hopes our kid would choose to give up the blocker and the medical pursuit to become a Masculine person. In February, we were shocked that the therapist at the clinic said two meetings with our kid was enough for her to say our kid gets the thumbs up for medical transition.)
But long story short, the next day in the car (after the babysitter dinner), I mentioned that I had made an appointment with our regular pediatrician to go over the most recent blood work and to ask for a bone scan. That’s when my kid said, “On that subject, I still wanna transition but I want to wait until I’m an adult because I don’t want all those negative medical problems.” (I can’t believe I was able to stay calm). Then they said, “I want to get the blocker removed”. I asked them if they knew that mean they’d go through the natural puberty in their body. They said yes.
You and Sasha, genspect and segm, and our babysitter saved my child. I know we will have to face what the blockers have done to her body, but we literally feel like we’ve yanked our child back to safety out of the path of an oncoming train.
And our babysitter says she’s part of a community of detransitioned lesbians, all of whom transitioned in their teen years. She has trans friends too, the happy stable ones, including her boyfriend, who transitioned after his body’s own puberty was allowed to take its natural course. Our babysitter spoke in the language my child needed to hear and understand. And You spoke to us in the language that kept us motivated to keep her safe from this path of physical and emotional damage. Thank you for everything you do.