About Susan Berland
Susan Berland is fiercely committed to guiding young people and their parents back to a loving, accepting relationship when the parents are struggling to accept their child as gay, bisexual or transgender. Susan guides parents and their kids to communicate effectively, trust one another and accept one another where and as they are.
Here are my most recent posts
by Susan Berland | Feb 24, 2021 | Family, LGBTQ Issues |
When a child comes out, there is often a lot of confusion, guilt, shame and so many questions. We wonder if we will ever get to a point of being happy to have an LGBTQ child. We’d be satisfied to just be okay and not feel how we feel at the moment. But there is hope!...
by Susan Berland | Jan 27, 2021 | LGBTQ Issues |
More and more kids are coming out and more and more parents are reaching out to me for support. I’m so happy I have a safe place to offer them where they can get the support they need from other parents of LGBTQ kids. Many of them are using the term lifestyle when...
by Susan Berland | Jan 13, 2021 | LGBTQ Issues |
This post was originally published in 2016. It bears repeating! As I was growing up in the 50’s and 60’s (yes, I’m THAT old!) we never thought about pronouns. Boys were he and him and girls were she and her. We didn’t even know what it meant to be transgender. The...
by Susan Berland | Dec 30, 2020 | General |
It’s been quite a year, hasn’t it? Here we are, two days away from 2020 being over and I couldn’t be happier to see a year end. At my age, I generally don’t wish away time. I have a lot less left than has already passed. This year started out quite normally. We made...
by Susan Berland | Dec 2, 2020 | Transgender |
In my newsletter, I asked my readers to share their experience of having a child come out as transgender and how it might be different from a child coming out as gay. I received this beautiful response from a reader and was given permission to share it. I’m so glad...
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