Parenting Teens: When Therapists Get the Balance Wrong
The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 273 · Duration: 00:09:34 Have you ever sent your teenager to counseling and suddenly found yourself undermined by their advice? Well it’s more common than you think and we’ll talk about how that happens in this week’s podcast, The Therapist Says I Need to Back Off. Here’s a common situation....Continue reading→
How Do I Share Custody With An Abusive Partner?
The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 272 · Duration: 00:15:10 In this episode, Neil helps Sharon, a mom of two, navigate co-parenting with an abusive ex and learn how to support her kids in recognizing harmful behaviors and setting healthy boundaries. Have you ever woken up to the reality that you’ve built a family with an...Continue reading→
The Challenge of Parental Blind Spots
The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 271 · Duration: 00:13:15 In this episode, Neil explains the powerful forces that resist change in families. It turns out that the challenges to change are common and frustrate parental efforts to help teens back on a healthy path forward. Neil identifies and explains these challenges and offers a way...Continue reading→
How to Create Real Change with your Teenager
The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 270 · Duration: 00:22:01 In this episode, Neil explains and offers examples of the most essential elements necessary to help teenagers change out of chronic under-performace due to a variety of causes. Is your teenager under functioning because of anxiety, depression, ADHD, hyper-sensitivity, oppositional behavior, learning differences or other neural...Continue reading→
My Daughter’s Husband Doesn’t Support Her
The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 269 · Duration: 00:07:56 In this episode, Neil responds to a mom wanting to know how to support her adult daughter who is in an emotionally abusive marriage. Do you sometimes find yourself wanting to help your adult child or someone you love set better limits with or leave their...Continue reading→
My Husband’s Anger Is Hurting All Of Us
The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 268 · Duration: 00:14:32 In this episode, Neil responds to a mom struggling to get her husband to parent without blame and anger. After offering some context, Neil demonstrates a letter writing technique that can jumpstart the process of change. Do you find yourself struggling to get your partner to...Continue reading→
I Don’t Want to Live Here Anymore
The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 267 · Duration: 00:12:36 In this episode, Neil responds to a Mom struggling with what went wrong and what to do now that her teenage daughter has moved out and is living with her grandmother. Can you imagine a Control Battle getting so extreme, that a teenager ends up moving...Continue reading→
Teach Your Teen Impulse Control – Part 2
The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 266 · Duration: 00:09:01 In this episode, Neil follows last week’s podcast where he responds to parents struggling with their young teenager’s lack of impulse control. In this episode, Neil offers a second way to help their teenager improve and he demonstrates how to go about it. Last week we...Continue reading→
Teach Your Teen Impulse Control – Part 1
The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 265 · Duration: 00:12:57 Do you struggle with your teenager’s lack of impulse control? These parents do and we’ll take a deep dive into how to help these parents help their son to improve. We’ll follow this podcast up with at least one more because this is an area so...Continue reading→
Getting Earned Privileges Right
The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 264 · Duration: 00:11:38 Do you find yourself in a cycle of giving and taking away privileges to get your teenager to simply do their work? These parents do and Neil helps them understand how to use the shift from giving kids Consequences to giving them Earned Privileges, why it...Continue reading→