Building Emotionally Healthy Teens Through Boundaries, Letting Go and Creating a Safe Container with Krissy Pozatek, MSW

ABOUT THE EPISODE:
"When parents are parents, kids can be kids" sounds easy right? Yet it's not easy to know how to be a parent who sets clear boundaries and creates a safe container for kids to grow, mature and feel all the feelings life throws at them in a healthy way. Luckily, Krissy Pozatek, MSW, joined me for an enlightening conversation on doing just that.

Krissy is the author of "The Parallel Process," a book all parents who have a child in treatment need to read, and is also a parent coach who offers an online program and online coaching sessions. With over 15 years of working with teens and young adults in a variety of therapeutic settings, Krissy offers so much insight during this conversation, including:

• Why rules are actually freeing to your teen
• The danger of smoothing the way for your teens and not allowing them to feel bored, sad, confused or angry
• What parents need to do to help their child when they're struggling (probably not what you think)
• How some kids will only learn from life and why it's important to let go of the reins
• Why kids coming home from treatment programs can slip back into old behaviors if parents haven't cleaned up their skills
• What enmeshment really means
• Why things may get worse before they get better when parents change their actions
• How all feelings are just information
• What attunement is and why it's important
• Why it's important for your teen to not be happy all the time

EPISODE RESOURCES:

• Krissy Pozatek, The Parallel Process
• Krissy's Instagram
• Online Parent Coaching Resources
• Krissy's books

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