From Resolutions to Repair: How Parents and Allies Can Heal Your Way into 2026

Tired of the pressure to reinvent yourself every New Year? You’re not alone AND you’re not doing it wrong.

In this final episode of 2025, Heather Hester offers a powerful shift from the tradition of resolutions to something more meaningful for LGBTQ+ parents, caregivers, and allies: repair. Rather than fix or perfect, you’re invited to reflect, release, and re-enter the next year with clarity, care, and courage.

You’ll discover:

1. Why repair matters more than resolutions for long-term emotional and relational health
2. A simple framework for reflecting on what the year took, gave, and taught you
3. A grounding kindness ritual to close the year gently and truthfully
4. A myth-busting “unlearn” that challenges the belief that endings must be productive or performative

Whether you're exhausted, grieving, grateful or all three, this episode will give you space to exhale, return to your body, and choose softness as an act of strength.

Reflection Practice:

1. What did 2025 take from me?
2. What did it give me?
3. What act of self-compassion can I offer myself now?

Kindness Ritual:

Choose one gentle thing: light a candle, write to your future self, or speak one sentence of love to your child. Let this act be your offering to the new year.

Unlearn Prompt:

What if the end of the year wasn’t about doing more, but letting go?

Hi, I’m Heather Hester, and I’m so glad you’re here!

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At the heart of my work is a deep commitment to compassion, authenticity, and transformative allyship, especially for those navigating the complexities of parenting LGBTQ+ kids. Through this podcast, speaking, my writing, and the spaces I create, I help people unlearn bias, embrace their full humanity, and foster courageous, compassionate connection.

If you’re in the thick of parenting, allyship, or pioneering a way to lead with love and kindness, I’m here with true, messy, and heart-warming stories, real tools, and grounding support to help you move from fear to fierce, informed action.

Whether you’re listening in, working with me directly, or quietly taking it all in, I see you. And I’m so glad you’re part of this journey.

More Human. More Kind. formerly Just Breathe: Parenting Your LGBTQ Teen is a safe and supportive podcast and space where a mom and mental health advocate offers guidance on parenting with empathy, inclusion, and open-minded allyship, fostering growth, healing, and empowerment within the LGBTQ community—including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals—while addressing grief, boundaries, education, diversity, human rights, gender identity, sexual orientation, social justice, and the power of human kindness through a lens of ally support and community engagement.

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