The Challenge of Parental Blind Spots
HEALTHY FAMILY CONNECTIONS
Struggling to guide your teen back to a healthy path? In this episode of Healthy Family Connections, host Neil D. Brown, LCSW, tackles parental blind spots that sabotage change in families. Discover why even motivated parents miss key strategies from books like Ending the Parent-Teen Control Battle and learn actionable solutions to overcome control battles, power struggles, and counterproductive patterns. Neil shares three critical reasons change feels impossible and introduces his online parenting course to empower you with bite-sized, systemic tools for lasting transformation....
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How to Create Real Change with your Teenager
HEALTHY FAMILY CONNECTIONS
Is your teenager under functioning because of anxiety, depression, ADHD, hyper-sensitivity, oppositional behavior, learning differences or other neural differences? We’ll talk about what to do about this in today’s podcast, How to Create Real Change with your Teenager. *** Have a question for Neil? Submit it now for discussion on a future episode of The Healthy Family Connections Podcast: 📘 Buy the book: 👉 Take the online course: 📬 Sign up for my weekly newsletter: Get started and take the first step toward a thriving family life. ✨ Visit for...
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My Daughter’s Husband Doesn’t Support Her
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In this episode, Neil responds to a mom wanting to know how to support her adult daughter who is in an emotionally abusive marriage. *** Have a question for Neil? Submit it now for discussion on a future episode of The Healthy Family Connections Podcast: 📘 Buy the book: 👉 Take the online course: 📬 Sign up for my weekly newsletter: Get started and take the first step toward a thriving family life. ✨ Visit for more resources including free assessments, guides, and plenty of content on parenting teenagers.
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My Husband's Anger is Hurting All of Us
HEALTHY FAMILY CONNECTIONS
In this episode, Neil responds to a mom struggling to get her husband to parent without blame and anger. After offering some context, Neil demonstrates a letter writing technique that can jumpstart the process of change. *** Have a question for Neil? Submit it now for discussion on a future episode of The Healthy Family Connections Podcast: 📘 Buy the book: 👉 Take the online course: 📬 Sign up for my weekly newsletter: Get started and take the first step toward a thriving family life. ✨ Visit for more resources including free assessments, guides, and...
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I Don’t Want To Live Here Anymore
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In this episode, Neil responds to a Mom struggling with what went wrong and what to do now that her daughter has moved out and is living with her grandmother. *** Have a question for Neil? Submit it now for discussion on a future episode of The Healthy Family Connections Podcast: 📘 Buy the book: 👉 Take the online course: 📬 Sign up for my weekly newsletter: Get started and take the first step toward a thriving family life. ✨ Visit for more resources including free assessments, guides, and plenty of content on parenting teenagers.
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Teach Your Teen Impulse Control - Part 2
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In this episode, Neil follows where he responds to parents struggling with their young teenager’s lack of impulse control. In this episode, Neil offers a second way to help their teenager improve and he demonstrates how to go about it. *** Hi, I'm Neil D. Brown, psychotherapist, author, and podcaster. I've evolved a model for parents of teenagers with behavior issues. Learn more about my online course and book titled Ending the Parent-Teen Control Battle. 👉 Take the online course: 📘 Buy the book: 📬 Sign up for my weekly Healthy Family Connections newsletter: Get started and...
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Teach Your Teen Impulse Control - Part 1
HEALTHY FAMILY CONNECTIONS
In this episode, Neil responds to parents struggling with their young teenager’s lack of impulse control. Neil offers a positive way to help their teenager improve and demonstrates how to go about it. This is the first of 2 podcasts on this topic. *** Hi, I'm Neil D. Brown, psychotherapist, author, and podcaster. I've evolved a model for parents of teenagers with behavior issues. Learn more about my online course and book titled Ending the Parent-Teen Control Battle. 👉 Take the online course: neildbrown.com/parent-teen-control-battle-course 📘 Buy the book: neildbrown.com/books 📬...
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Getting Earned Privileges Right
HEALTHY FAMILY CONNECTIONS
Do you find yourself in a cycle of giving and taking away privileges to get your teenager to simply do their work? These parents do and Neil helps them understand how to use the shift from giving kids Consequences to giving them Earned Privileges, why it works and how to apply it in real life. We talk about that and a whole lot more on this week’s podcast, Getting Earned Privileges Right. *** Have a question for Neil? Submit it now for discussion on a future episode of The Healthy Family Connections Podcast: 📘 Buy the book: 👉 Take the online...
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Start But Don't Stop With Empathy
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In this podcast Neil responds to a mother struggling to get her young adult daughter who suffers from OCD moving. This mom wants to know if she’s cruel for wanting her daughter to challenge herself more. Neil offers this parent a way to communicate with her daughter and end the stalemate in their relationship. Hi, I'm Neil D. Brown, psychotherapist, author, and podcaster. I've evolved a model for parents of teenagers with behavior issues. Learn more about my online course and book titled Ending the Parent-Teen Control Battle. 👉 Take the online course: 📘 Buy the book: 📬 Sign up...
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Try Going on Strike: ADHD Youth and Managing Responsiblities
HEALTHY FAMILY CONNECTIONS
In this episode Neil responds to parents who are losing control of their ADHD 15 year old son. Neil highlights the problem of parents doing all the work to help their son succeed, while their son is putting his effort into resistance. Neil explains the critical function in adolescence of youth taking onus for their responsibilities and offers these parents a surprising strategy to shift motivation for responsibilities from them to their son. Have a question for Neil? Submit it now for discussion on a future episode of The Healthy Family Connections Podcast: More resources from Neil ...
info_outlineIn this podcast, Neil takes issue with National Columnist Amy Dickinson’s advice to a mother whose daughter is intentionally screwing up her chores to get her mother to quit assigning them to her. Neil explains how ramping up consequences can unwittingly only support a Control Battle while missing the opportunity for real change.
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