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“Talking about puberty doesn't need to be so cringe. Learn how the author of ‘Growing Into You!’ suggests changing our approach.” via Teen Health Today 👇🏾

An Inclusive, Shame-Busting, Get-Real Guide To Puberty Talking about puberty doesn't need to be so cringe. Learn how the author of "Growing Into You!" suggests changing our approach.

🎉 TODAY IS PUBLICATION DAY for my second book “Growing into You!: An Inclusive, Shame-Busting, Get-Real Guide to Your Changing Body and Mind,” a beautifully engaging puberty education resource for 10-14 year olds! ➡️ Swipe to check out early reviews!
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🎉 To celebrate this book birthday, I’m giving away four (4) signed copies! All you have to do to enter is:

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⭐️ tag someone who believes young people deserve shame-free puberty education
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📖 This book is packed with essential information, conversation starters, reflection exercises, surprising facts, and fun activities that help tweens and young teens navigate puberty with greater confidence. Parents and caring adults will also find this book useful to learn shame-free, inclusive education and foster affirming connections with the young people in your world.

🙏🏾 Special shout outs to Brianna Gilmartin whose fun, inclusive illustrations make this book an affirming resource for so many young people. And to my supportive editor and the entire publishing team at who’ve worked collaboratively with me from day one to see this book through.

💜 And thank you so much to every one of you who have taken our Growing Into You! puberty workshops that inspired this book, who continue to support this work, and who are using the education to create a more liberated, connected growing up journey for the young people in your world. This book would not be without you 🫶🏾
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📍GIVEAWAY details: Three separate winners will be selected. One entry per person. You have until 11:59pm CDT on Thursday, May 8th to enter. Winners will be drawn and announced in our stories on Friday, May 9th. Contest is open worldwide.

📷 by Tyson Carnagey (my 15yo son 🥰)

Summer learning for the whole family ☀️

So honored to see “Growing into You!” featured in this great list of new releases for young readers! 📚

20 New Children’s Releases for May That Will Captivate Readers Vampires, magic goldfish, social media woes, and cousins — our picks for the most-anticipated May 2025 children’s releases feature all this and more!

I’m in the studio at pony sound this week recording the audiobook of “Growing into You!” for Penguin Random House’s Listening Library. This process is so fun! I feel happy knowing young people will have this book in many formats! 🎧🥰

Several great resources and conversation starters to support the talks!

How To Talk To Teens About "Adolescence" The Netflix show is an artistic triumph and an enormous hit. It's stirred up lots of discussions about violence, teenage boys, and online misogyny.

There’s a lot of discussion about the show “Adolescence” on Netflix. Here’s what happened when I watched the series with my 15-year-old son:

😲 We were in awe. This four-part series, each episode shot in one take, drew us into the layered family and community dynamics that unfolded after a 13-year-old boy named Jamie m—rd—red his classmate, Katie. This show didn’t rely on sensationalized or graphic scenes to tell the story. Just raw emotions, honest and often hard conversations within human moments. We witnessed each one of them, together.

💡 We learned... what it can be like to be a young teen, boy, girl, a helping professional, teacher, parent, and community in this age of social media. We witnessed moments that influence a person’s inner voice, body image, self-esteem, sense of belonging, triggers, actions toward themself and others. We learned the complexities of being human in today’s highly digital world.

💭 We talked...a lot. Pausing the video frequently to make space for our reactions and processing. In the pauses we talked about family, social media, bullying, misogyny, the legal system, toxic masculinity, emojis, feelings, parenting, intergenerational trauma, fear, loneliness, beauty standards, race, school systems, white privilege, anger, and love. We had important, brave conversations.

💜 We felt. Episodes 3 and 4 had us meeting eyes with each other countless times as we watched the interactions unfold. It was a lot, but it wasn’t too much. It was real and felt. By the final scene, we were both with watery eyes. The empathy and compassion we experienced was important. We felt many emotions, many times, together.

🥰 We connected. We enjoy watching shows together, and what made this unique is it felt like we were watching behind the scenes of people’s real lives, moments we don’t typically get to witness. My son’s first words as the credits rolled were, “That was powerful.” I agree, and I feel grateful for the connected experience we had watching this show together. We hope more families take time out to watch and connect too.

⭐ If you’ve watched the show, what was your experience like? What talks did it spark?

Since 2019 we’ve taught THOUSANDS of tweens, teens, and trusted adults with honest, shame-free, gender-inclusive, and engaging virtual workshops that help families learn and connect without taboo. Join us in the new year!

💡Help us design a resource that 12-18 year olds need to take care of their bodies, affirm their identities, and have healthy relationships!

🎉 We’re thrilled to announce we are one of six teams who’ve been awarded the In/Tend Incubator $90k Grant to innovate in s*x ed for youth! What a perfect way to punch back at Project 2025!

For the next six months, we’ll be working together with as part of the first cohort of the In/Tend Incubator using human-centered liberatory design principles to support our innovation journey. We’ll also work directly with youth to build a prototype that’s most relevant and accessible for young people today.

To help us get started, share your thoughts in the comments on:

🤔 What do 12-18 year olds need from s*x ed right now?

🤔 Through what format or medium should that need be offered?

Thank you for supporting, and be sure to follow our team for updates along the journey!

It felt so good to be back in a classroom today teaching high school students in Austin, Texas all about menstruation! 🥰

We gave shame-free facts about uterine and vulvar anatomy, what to expect during a period, how to care for bodies during menstruation, explored period products, and busted some common myths and stereotypes about this powerful bodily process!

⭐️ Our new intern Maryam, from the UT School of Social Work program, co-facilitated and did an awesome job!

I’m grateful we had this opportunity to take our virtual education into a school that aligns with our shame-free, gender-inclusive approach 💜