About this episode

Breanna Jayne Sada and Lauren Armstrong discuss the importance of teaching children about healthy love and emotional safety to prevent harmful relationship patterns.

How do we teach children what healthy love, self-worth, boundaries and emotional safety look like before harmful relationship patterns begin? In this powerful and deeply important episode of Let’s Reconnect , Breanna Jayne Sada speaks with educator, advocate and founder of the Self Love Safe Love Collective, Lauren Armstrong. Lauren shares her lived experience of domestic violence in both childhood and adulthood, and how that inspired her mission to help children build an internal compass strong enough to guide them toward safe, respectful relationships and away from harm. Together, Breanna and Lauren explore how parents, teachers and trusted adults can start age-appropriate conversations with children about safe love, unhealthy behaviours, self-esteem, boundaries, coercion, emotional safety and family violence prevention . They also discuss why these conversations cannot wait until the teen years, and how teaching children to value themselves may be one of the strongest protective factors we can offer. This episode also includes an important discussion on the rise of teen gambling in Australia , new government restrictions on gambling advertising, and what parents need to know…

People in this episode

Host: Breanna Jayne Sada

Guest: Lauren Armstrong

Topics covered

• healthy love
• self-worth
• boundaries
• emotional safety
• domestic violence
• family violence prevention
• teen gambling

Keywords

• safe love
• self-love
• unhealthy relationships
• coercion
• emotional safety
• childhood experiences
• teen gambling
• family violence

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Self Love Safe Love Collective

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