107: Building Strong Relationships: Healthy Families, Healthy Teens

Kristal DeSantis is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Clinically Certified Trauma Professional, and a State of Texas approved Premarital Education Provider. She is the creator of The STRONG model of Relational Therapy. Her expertise helps parents, teachers, and coaches navigate the challenges of teaching teens healthy relationship skills.

• The importance of parents modeling healthy relationship skills.
• The pillars of healthy relationships are.
• Safety in a relationship includes self awareness, stability, self-regulation, and self-expression.
• Trust: sometimes trust means making repairs in the relationship.
• Respect: make sure you’re communicating your boundaries.
• Openness: the importance of being open and sharing.
• Nurturing: especially important for fathers to be involved in a nurturing way.
• Generosity: when you love someone you go the extra mile for them.
• Privacy and secrecy: there’s a difference.
• Helping teens navigate relationships, especially around consent, boundaries, and respect.
• How attachment and trauma affect relationships and what parents can do to break the cycle.

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Resources

• Website: https://www.strong.love/