Welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm Coach Sammy and I am so glad you are here.

The teen years can be fun and exciting, but also filled with self-doubt, insecurities, and lots of

frustration. I am here to help you along your teen

journey and make sure you enjoy your teen years as much as possible. Let's get started.

All right. Hey guys. Welcome to the podcast this week. How's everybody doing today? Everyone looking

forward to Christmas break. My kids get out of school on Thursday this week. How's everybody doing today? Everyone looking forward to Christmas break. My kids get out

of school on Thursday this week and then we are headed to the snow and I'm excited to chill and

hang out with family. I've got a nephew getting married. So there's going to be lots of family

together. So it's going to be a great break. All right. So today's episode is episode five of the happiness

habit series. And I feel like this topic for today is good timing around the holidays because typically

around the holidays we are around a lot of family and we are at people's houses and we are doing things

together and spending

time creating connections and relationships. So today I'm going to be talking about creating

good relationships as a happiness habit. Happy teens have good relationships in their lives.

There is also a direct correlation with bad relationships leading to

unhappiness in teens' lives. Okay. So the type of relationships you have really affects

your mental health and happiness. Okay. So now, as I have worked with many teens,

relationships seem to be the source of the greatest happiness for you guys

because this is a time in your life where it's all about friends, but it's also the source of

the most intense frustration and anger and sadness that you guys experience. And even though

relationships can be challenging sometimes and make us,

you know, want to pull our hair out, there's still so much good that they can do for us,

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