Welcome to the Therapy Thoughts podcast.

This is Tiffany Rowe.

I'm a clinical mental health counselor and psychology teacher in Utah.

And I want to change the mental health game.

The Therapy Thoughts podcast is all about breaking down therapy-related topics and making mental

health information easy to understand and super accessible. So join me for quick and direct

educational episodes and some deeper dives with experts from around the world. Together, we are

going to break down stigma. We're going to help each other make peace with mind,

body, and food. We're going to make therapy cool and invest time in our mental health.

Let's do it here, one therapy thought at a time. What's up?

Everybody, Therapy Thoughts Podcast.

We are talking about navigating family relationships today.

This is a heavy hitter.

You know, when I'm thinking about 10 tips to give you to

navigate your family relationships, it's really a cross-section of all the skills. This is where we

flex our mental health muscles. This is the testing ground. Like, honestly, the work we all do in

therapy, the work we do in introspection and self-reflection

and digging into our lives to be better, our values work, everything we do really gets to

be practiced in the family arena.

So boundaries, emotional regulation, validation, validation skills, assertiveness, responding, not reacting,

resentment work, feeling our feelings, using coping skills, you know, regulating our nervous systems,

like everything that we talk about is going to come up within our family of origin,

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