Pineapple Support, the adult industry’s leading mental health nonprofit, will host a free family support group and webinar to help adult performers foster stronger relationships with their parents and other family members.
Parent and Performer Support Group (July 12 – Aug 16)
This free six-week support group is an educational and mild process group that focuses on relational ties in the family. This group will cover the various emotions around the performer discussing or revealing their career choice to their parents and the parents’ reaction to the information. How to communicate and listen in a healthy way as a family and how to accept/support each other.
Challenges of Family Members of Adult Entertainers Webinar (July 21)
This free webinar is for adult entertainers and their family members to discuss the unique challenges to their relationships, which sometimes lead to conflict, estrangement, and harmful interconnection. This webinar addresses many of these challenges with the goal of providing greater understanding and tools to develop healthy methods of interaction.
“During the month of July, we’re focusing on providing support to performers to help improve their relationships with their parents or other family members,” says Leya Tanit, founder of Pineapple Support. “We are encouraging performers to contribute by sending us videos or writing about their experience with parents and family members discovering they are in the industry, which we will share on our social media platforms. Those who wish to take part can send their video or text to contact@pineapplesupport.org.”
Pineapple Support was founded by Tanit, a British performer, in early 2018, in response to losses in the adult industry from depression, addiction and other mental illnesses. The organisation, which is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit in the United States and a registered charity in the UK, has so far connected over one thousand adult performers to mental health services, including free and low-cost, therapy, counseling and emotional support.
The Challenges of Family Members of Adult Entertainers webinar will take place on July 21st at 3pm EST. Webinars are scheduled to last one hour but may extend. For more information and to sign-up for the webinar, visit Pineapple Support.
The Parent Performer Support Group will begin on July 12th and will take place weekly each Sunday at 6-7pm EST via Zoom. For more information and to sign-up for the support group, visit here.
