Parents Pushed to the Edge: Negotiating Healthy Boundaries with Teens During A Time of Pandemic (Part 1)

07/16/20 • 38 min

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It’s challenging enough to be a parent of a teenager-but to be a parent of teen during a Pandemic can take us to the edge and push boundaries we never even imagined we’d have to have!

To provide us with insight, perspective and guidance so we can both maintain our own healthy boundaries and support our teens developmental needs and unique life challenges during this time-I’ve invited my colleague Jenni Wiech-a social worker and psychotherapist who has been working with teens and their parents for over a decade.

Jenni specializes in family systems theory and teaches practices for healthy attachment and healing trauma. She works through a mindfulness based approach called Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) that helps people to develop skills for self-awareness, emotional regulation, effective communication and healthy boundaries.
Here's a peak at a few things we talked about:

Understanding and making space for grief-in ourselves and in our teens for the loss of traditional ways of celebrating and experiencing significant life events (graduation, moving up ceremonies, awards ceremonies), delayed or interrupted college life and more...
Effective ways of dealing with pushback, anger and defiance around social distancing guidelines.
How to stop fighting and work compassionately with our teens to find solutions for socializing that meets the safety needs of the entire family.
Simple strategies for helping our teens (and ourselves) manage anxiety, stress and panic attacks.

This will be a 2 part series focused on parenting teens! Our next episode in two weeks is Part 2 which will be focused on issues parents and teens are facing related to the ongoing protests and the burgeoning racial justice movement we are living through.

To learn about Jenni's Parenting and Teen Workshops
To contact Jenni by email: [email protected]

To learn more about your host Penny Rosenzweig

To learn more about our practitioners and Roots and Wings Healing Arts

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It’s challenging enough to be a parent of a teenager-but to be a parent of teen during a Pandemic can take us to the edge and push boundaries we never even imagined we’d have to have!

Understanding and making space for grief-in ourselves and in our teens for the loss of traditional ways of celebrating and experiencing significant life events (graduation, moving up ceremonies, awards ceremonies), delayed or interrupted college life and more...
Effective ways of dealing with pushback, anger and defiance around social distancing guidelines.
How to stop fighting and work compassionately with our teens to find solutions for socializing that meets the safety needs of the entire family.
Simple strategies for helping our teens (and ourselves) manage anxiety, stress and panic attacks.

To learn about Jenni's Parenting and Teen Workshops
To contact Jenni by email: [email protected]

To learn more about your host Penny Rosenzweig

To learn more about our practitioners and Roots and Wings Healing Arts

Previous Episode

Release Old Patterns and Free Yourself from the Past with Flower Essences

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Have you ever felt like you're being held back by your past?
What if your most challenging emotional patterns and family relationship struggles were actually passed down to you energetically through your DNA because of intergenerational trauma?
What if you could free yourself from these binds and release these patterns at their root, with simple tools that work with your system energetically?
If any of this intrigues you and you'd like to learn more, you're going to love this episode with Flower Essence Practitioner and Family Constellation Therapist, Anu Gulati!

Here's a snapshot of some of things we talked about:

How our most challenging emotional reactions and family relationship struggles can be caused by unresolved issues and traumas in our ancestral line.
How we can shift these issues and traumas energetically with the use of Flower Essences and sacred ritual that honors our ancestors.
How flower essences differ from essential oils, and how essences can help us to shift us out of dark emotions (anger, fear, grief, anxiety, etc.) and into more inner peace and calm.

Plus-Anu shares her free tools to help you identify the intergenerational patterns that may be holding you back and how to tap into the underlying message and wisdom that your difficult emotions are trying to tell you.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Anu's Free GiftAnu's Website
To learn more about your host Penny Rosenzweig

To learn more about our practitioners and Roots and Wings Healing Arts

Next Episode

Learning from and Supporting Our Teens in a Racial Justice Movement (Part 2 with Jenni Wiech LICSW)

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This is Part 2 in our special series for parents of Teens in this epic time of change where we are facing both a global pandemic and a burgeoning racial justice movement. To provide insight, perspective and guidance so we can both maintain our own healthy boundaries and support our teens developmental needs and unique life challenges I’ve invited my colleague Jenni Wiech LICSW-a psychotherapist who has been working with teens and their parents for over a decade.
Here's a peak at what we discussed:

How to support the strong desire in many of our teens to be activists while keeping them safe in a pandemic.
How we can keep our eyes and minds open while we ride the steep learning curve we are on as parents as many of us are working to educate ourselves and keep pace with the awarenesses many of our kids already have around racism, and inequality and the effect of implicit racial bias and white privilege on people of color.
How to help our kids respond to the complexities of activism in the world of social media, where they may be finding themselves being called out, criticized and sometimes bullied by peers whether they speak out against racism or stay silent.

Jenni Wiech specializes in family systems theory and teaches practices for healthy attachment and healing trauma. She works through a mindfulness based approach called Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) that helps people to develop skills for self-awareness, emotional regulation, effective communication and healthy boundaries.

Show Notes:
The book Jenni Mentioned:
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Kids in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey

To learn about Jenni's Parenting and Teen Workshops
To contact Jenni by email: [email protected]

To learn more about your host Penny Rosenzweig

To learn more about our practitioners and Roots and Wings Healing Arts