The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 258 · Duration: 00:23:27 Episode Description:  In this podcast, Neil and Robin respond to a Caroyln Hax column in which a desperate mom wants advice for dealing with her hostile 17-year-old son. Mom is divorced and her son had been living mostly with his father, who just passed away. Healthy […]

The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 256 · Duration: 00:27:53 Now here’s a subject we’ve managed to avoid yet it’s a subject every parent of an adolescent will face, talking with your teenager about sex.  We’ll talk about this and a whole lot more on this week’s podcast, The Dos and Don’ts of Talking With Your […]

The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 255 · Duration: 00:25:36 Now here is something to think about. When you and your partner approach standards and consequences very differently, it could be fine, or you could be making a very big mistake. Neil explains how polarized positions are triangulating and confusing for teens and how to end […]

The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 254 · Duration: 00:22:08 In this podcast, Neil and Robin respond to a husband and father struggling with why he isn’t being listened to or appreciated in his own family. Neil offers a powerful yet simple way to think of and build empathy skills, a missing ingredient for this husband […]

The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 252 · Duration: 00:27:51 In this podcast Neil and Robin respond to a woman whose daughter threatens to quit going to college or harm herself when her parents don’t give her what she wants. Neil names this syndrome as Hostile Dependency and offers this mother clear guidelines and the healthy […]

The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 251 · Duration: 00:21:45 In this podcast, Neil and Robin respond to a question from a mom whose daughter is isolating more and more and seems to possibly be depressed. Patricia of Phoenix AZ writes: Dear Neil, I’ve been listening to your podcast for a while, and it’s given me great support […]

The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 250 · Duration: 00:21:22 In this podcast Neil and Robin respond to a woman on a quest to get healthy and have a stronger voice with her husband. She is struggling with how her husband fights with their college age son and wants the pattern to change. Franchesca from Minneapolis, […]

The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 248 · Duration: 00:20:52 What do you do when you discover your high school senior has not been going to his classes and instead, has been putting all his energy into gaming? Today we are hearing from Kaylin of Eastern Connecticut. Kaylin writes:  Dear Neil, I suffer from debilitating anxiety […]

The Healthy Family Connections Podcast Episode 247 · Duration: 00:28:30 In this podcast, Neil and co-host Robin discuss three ways of being: self-oriented, self-centered and other-centered. Neil provides insight into how each of us is probably a little or a lot of each in our lives depending on our day-to-day circumstances. The most effective and mature […]