Parenting Teens: How to Make Life Worth Living Before Crisis Hits

About this episode

The episode discusses proactive approaches to enhance teen mental wellness and prevent crises.

Does your teen feel disconnected, hopeless, or like they don't belong? What if we stopped waiting for crisis and started building the will to live early? In this episode, I sit down with Kerry Martin - Harvard MPP, attempt survivor, and founder of Foundation for Life - a nonprofit dedicated to going all the way upstream on teen mental wellness. Kerry and I dig into what it actually means to make life worth living for our kids, not just stop them from dying. What you'll learn: Why all children...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Suzanne Simpson

Guest: Kerry Martin

Topics covered

• teen mental wellness
• parenting
• crisis prevention
• youth connection
• mental health

Keywords

• teen mental health
• parenting teens
• youth wellness
• mental wellness
• crisis prevention

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Foundation for Life, Harvard

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