Lift + Love

Every parent wants to raise a healthy child, no matter what their sexuality is.

When your child comes out this is one of the biggest fears that parents of LGBTQ children have.

Will they be healthy emotionally and spiritually?

In this episode Allison and Jenie talk about how they handled it with their sons and what they have learned helping 100's of families help their child

If you are looking to learn the tools and to get the coaching that will help your LGBTQ family thrive while gaining access to other families on this journey you can work 1:1 with Jenie at www.jeniehuntercoaching.com

Join us for any of our free monthly Lift+Love Support Groups - link sign up at Lift+Love Support .

For additional support and help please reach out to us on our IG accounts at Lift+Love and Jenie Hunter Coaching

Have you ever listened to a talk that everybody seems to love and you are left with feeling less hope and more fear?

Allison and Jenie recently experienced this and they discuss in this episode how to process and find peace.

If you are looking to learn the tools and to get the coaching that will help your LGBTQ family thrive while gaining access to other families on this journey than the Lifted Together Community is the place for you.  For details on how to join go to www.liftandlove.org/community

Join us for any of our free monthly Lift+Love Support Groups - link sign up at Lift+Love Support .

For additional support and help please reach out to us on our IG accounts at Lift+Love and Jenie Hunter Coaching

We are back! Jenie and Allison talk about the behind the Gathering Conference.  Sharing their experience, behind the scenes moments and what they have learned.

To listen to the Gathering Speakers go to Gathering Speakers Youtube

If you are looking to learn the tools and to get the coaching that will help your LGBTQ family thrive while gaining access to other families on this journey than the Lifted Together Community is the place for you.  For details on how to join go to www.liftandlove.org/community

Join us for any of our free monthly Lift+Love Support Groups - link sign up at Lift+Love Support .

For additional support and help please reach out to us on our IG accounts at Lift+Love and Jenie Hunter Coaching

Most parent's have great fear on what is going to happen with their testimony when their child comes out.  Can they stay in the church and support their LGBTQ child?  Anita Irvin, Allison and Jenie talk about how they have managed this path and share what they needed to do to protect their testimony and how they grew their faith of Jesus Christ

If you are looking to learn the tools and to get the coaching that will help your LGBTQ family thrive while gaining access to other families on this journey than the Lifted Together Community is the place for you.  For details on how to join go to www.liftandlove.org/community

Join us for any of our free monthly Lift+Love Support Groups - link sign up at Lift+Love Support .

For additional support and help please reach out to us on our IG accounts at Lift+Love and Jenie Hunter Coaching

Worry is a sneaky emotion.  It feels useful and necessary.  But that is a lie.  When we create worry about our LGBTQ child we are using up our valuable emotional energy in unproductive ways.  Taking action from worry is not where we want to parent from.

This episode Allison and Jenie talk about how to handle your worry, what result your worry is creating and how to thrive and not just survive. 

Link for the Pope's quoteshttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/250221/at-general-audience-pope-francis-urges-parents-never-condemn-a-child

If you are looking to learn the tools and to get the coaching that will help your LGBTQ family thrive while gaining access to other families on this journey than the Lift and Love Community is the place for you.  For details on how to join go to www.liftandlove.org/community

Join us for any of our free monthly Lift+Love Support Groups - link sign up at Lift+Love Support .

For additional support and help please reach out to us on our IG accounts at Lift+Love and Jenie Hunter Coaching

This episode we are sharing the conversation I recorded with Heather Rackman from Latter Day Life Coach  Podcast

We talk about how to you as the mom can be the touchpoint for your LGBTQ child.

If you are looking to learn the tools and to get the coaching that will help your LGBTQ family thrive while gaining access to other families on this journey than the Lift and Love Community is the place for you.  For details on how to join go to www.liftandlove.org/community

Join us for any of our free monthly Lift+Love Support Groups - link sign up at Lift+Love Support .

For additional support and help please reach out to us on our IG accounts at Lift+Love and Jenie Hunter Coaching

In this episode Jenie and Allison talk with Julie Spilsbury who serves as a Councilmember for the city of Mesa.  Julie shared with us her story on how supporting the controversial non-discrimination ordinance effected her relationships and her standing in the community.  

Julie was elected to the Mesa City Council in August of 2020, Councilmember Julie Spilsbury began her first term defending her vote on Mesa’s controversial Non-Discrimination Ordinance – passed March 1 2021.

Julie and her husband Jeremy ran a small tree care company for more than 20 years. They have lived in Mesa for almost their entire 24 years of marriage and have six children, five girls and one boy. She attended Brigham Young University.

To contact Councilmember Spilsbury you can reach her on Facebook  or her [email protected].

If you are looking to learn the tools and to get the coaching that will help your LGBTQ family thrive while gaining access to other families on this journey than the Lift and Love Community is the place for you.  For details on how to join go to www.liftandlove.org/community

Join us for any of our free monthly Lift+Love Support Groups - link sign up at Lift+Love Support .

For additional support and help please reach out to us on our IG accounts at Lift+Love and Jenie Hunter Coaching

In one week's time,  four mom's told us that their children didn't feel safe at church.  This is not unusual.  We hear this a lot.

We also hear from parent's who don't have LGBTQ children they don't understand why LGBTQ children feel unsafe at church.

In this episode we get vulnerable when we talk about HOW our LGBTQ saints feel emotionally unsafe in our churches.  

It isn't happening intentionally but it is a reality for most LGBTQ LDS members at church.  

Learning what makes them feel emotionally unsafe is the first step for us to become better disciples of our Savior.  

His gospel is not unsafe, so we need to talk to our LGBTQ children and rethink our teaching and how we present it to uncover the answer to what is causing our LGBTQ members to feel disconnected with Him?

We hope you can feel our love and plea for each of you and how we can create a safer environment for ALL of God's children in our church community.

If you are looking to learn the tools and to get the coaching that will help your LGBTQ family thrive while gaining access to other families on this journey than the Lift and Love Community is the place for you.  For details on how to join go to www.liftandlove.org/community

Join us for any of our free monthly Lift+Love Support Groups - link sign up at Lift+Love Support .

For additional support and help please reach out to us on our IG accounts at Lift+Love and Jenie Hunter Coaching

In this episode Jenie and Allison had the opportunity to talk to two men, Wyatt Warnick and Mike Babbit.  Wyatt and Mike are gay men who grew up LDS, graduated from BYU, and are now dating. Mike was a former BYU athlete and shared his journey about coming out and the impact of being gay and LDS had on his life. Mike also shares his coming out story as an LDS man.

Both of their stories will teach you and touch your heart.  Teaching you how impactful parents are in their children's journey, especially with them coming out.  We are so grateful that these men were willing to be vulnerable enough to share their beautiful story so that we can be taught and changed by these beautiful human beings.

You can find the Salt Lake Tribune article here Gordon Monson's article on Wyatt Warnick and on Instagram. You can find Mike Babbit on Instagram

If you are looking to learn the tools and to get the coaching that will help your LGBTQ family thrive while gaining access to other families on this journey than the Lift and Love Community is the place for you.  For details on how to join go to www.liftandlove.org/community

Join us for any of our free monthly Lift+Love Support Groups - link sign up at Lift+Love Support .

For additional support and help please reach out to us on our IG accounts at Lift+Love and Jenie Hunter Coaching

Allison and Jenie had the pleasure of interviewing Patrick Mason and J. David Pulsipher about their new book.  These two men have co-authored the book Proclaim Peace - The Restoration's Answer to an Age of Conflict. This book is a spiritual journey by two believing scholars of peace. In a world plagued by violence, Mason and Pulsipher believe, with President Russell M. Nelson, that “peace is possible” and that the “descendants of Abraham . . . are in a pivotal position to emerge as peacemakers” (“Blessed Are the Peacemakers,” Ensign, Nov. 2002). This book is an effort to lift up the Restoration’s distinctive principles that invite us to renounce violence and proclaim Christ’s good news of love and peace to a world that desperately needs it. Proclaim Peace seeks not to promote any particular ideology, but to invite readers, especially the rising generation, to reflect on the interpersonal, ethical, and social dimensions of Christian discipleshipPatrick Q. Mason is the Leonard J. Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture and an associate professor of religious studies and history at Utah State University. He is a nationally recognized authority about the Church in media outlets.

J. David Pulsipher is a professor of history at Brigham Young University–Idaho, where he teaches courses on citizenship, civil discourse, peace-building, and nonviolence .Patrick Q. Mason is the Leonard J. Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture and an associate professor of religious studies and history at Utah State University. He is a nationally recognized authority about the Church in media outlets.

It was such a pleasure to hear their perspective and guidance of how to build bridges of peace in our communities and wards.