In this episode, host Stephanie Dove Blake explores the emotional challenges that come with parenting teenagers. She highlights the importance of parents sacrificing their own emotions to better cater to their children's needs. Stephanie offers valuable insights on enhancing emotional awareness and self-control, emphasizing how these skills can profoundly impact the parent-teen relationship.

​Throughout the episode, Stephanie provides practical tips for parents on maintaining their well-being through self-care. She urges listeners to critically evaluate their approaches to parenting and the dynamics of their relationships with their tweens and teens.

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"Parenting exacts a tremendous cost. It virtually ensures that we will either grow stronger or weaker, but we will not and cannot remain the same."
- Gary Thomas (Sacred Parenting: How Raising Children Shapes Our Souls by Gary Thomas)


"Because whenever you love someone, you're willing to sacrifice what you might need in the moment to give the other person what they might need in the moment. And I think that that's beautiful when it's healthy." - Stephanie Dove Blake


"And the truth is, is that, you know, whenever we're angry and we're hurt, sometimes we act out and we end up wounding the very beautiful person right in front of us that we're trying to help and trying to do well by."  - Stephanie Dove Blake​