143: Coming Out Was The Nail That Sealed The Coffin with Elizabeth Estochen

"It’s so much more complicated than I came out of the closet and my mom didn’t like it and that was that,” Elizabeth Estochen, co-host of the LGBTQ+/sex podcast Sexdentified and author of the soon to be released poetry collection For Love and For Cruelty, shares with Chelsea in a recounting of her formative years. Starting with growing up as an only child amongst two young parents who were very much still growing up themselves to combating the awkward, chubby and bullied prone pre-teen years by immersing herself in the angsty, isolating and dangerous quest to become thin during middle school to entering into the strange new world of her mom’s second marriage where Agnosticism and feminism were soon abandoned for the ever-restrictive ideology of Catholicism and ever-expanding family of half-siblings, Elizabeth gets extra candid about the shame that left her estranged from her mother and her new step-family at the tender age of 15. Spoiler: This isn’t Elizabeth’s shame nor is it the shame of sexuality but, rather, what happens when a blended family doesn’t want to be blended and a mother outgrows her younger self and first marriage and looks at her daughter as an unwelcomed reminder of those years, that self, and a past life that would be better left behind.

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To connect with Elizabeth, visit her:

Website: www.estocheneditorial.com
Podcast: Sexdentified
Poetry Collection (February 2020 release date) Trailer: For Love, and for Cruelty
Twitter: twitter.com/estochen
Sexdentified's Twitter: https://twitter.com/sexdentified

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