Helping Your Kids Establish a Healthy Identity

Talk To Me: The Debra Fileta Podcast

Debra Fileta, M.A., LPC and Creator of TrueLoveDates.com

Self-improvement, Relationships, Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Society & Culture

4.9 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Q: Hey Debra, you always say that what you believe about yourself determines the kind of relationships you believe you deserve…how do I help my kids begin to establish a healthy identity? So much of our identity is formed and shaped in our childhood years — and what we do, and say, and teach as parents matters. How do you begin to help your kids see themselves as God sees them? Fight off the cultural lies? Feel confident in who they are? Build a healthy identity? Today, my good friend and amazing podcaster, Jamie Ivey — joins me for this important conversation. Jamie is a mother of four amazing kids, in the thick of their teen years. I loved chatting with her about this concept, and even if you don’t have kids, I think this important conversation will get you thinking about your own childhood and the things that shaped your healthy identity along the way. Tune in this episode of the Love & Relationships Podcast and follow the show by clicking on the button below! FOLLOW MY PODCAST AND LISTEN ON Apple PODCASTS BY CLICKING HERE Additional Ways To Listen: STITCHER – SPOTIFY – GOOGLE PLAY – iHEART RADIO THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: ZocDoc & Trade Are you ready to get healthy from the inside out? Check out my Bestselling book, Are You Really OK? And Check out Debra’s Love + Relationships Podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! DEBRA FILETA is a Licensed Professional Counselor, national speaker, relationship expert, and author of Choosing Marriage and True Love Dates, and Love In Every Season, and Are You Really OK? and Married Sex. She’s also the host of the hotline style Love + Relationships Podcast. Her popular relationship advice blog, TrueLoveDates.com, reaches millions of people with the message of healthy relationships. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter or book an online session with her today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. Welcome back to the Love and Relationships podcast, a hotline-style show where people call in with all of their questions about love, sex, dating, singleness, marriage, and mental and emotional health.
0:31.1	I'm your host, Deborah Felita.
0:32.9	And I'm so glad you're tuning into these candid, unscripted conversations where I answer your questions
0:38.7	in short, bite-sized, practical answers.
0:42.1	For those of you who don't know me, I'm a licensed professional counselor, relationship expert, and author of five books.
0:48.5	I also run the popular relationship advice blog, TrueLovedates.com, reaching millions of people with the message that
0:55.6	healthy people make healthy relationships. If you have a question that you want me to answer on the show,
1:02.2	send it by voice memo to Deborah at Truelovedates.com or submit it on my podcast page,
1:08.4	truveladates.com slash love and relationships. And I'll do my best to get it
1:14.1	answered on one of the episodes. Without further to do, let's dig in to today's topic.
1:23.8	Today's question comes from Kim from Colorado. Hey, Deborah, you always talk about the importance of understanding your identity
1:31.1	and that what you believe about yourself determines the kind of relationship you believe you deserve.
1:37.0	How can we as parents begin to foster that type of healthy identity in our children from a young age?
1:46.4	I always love questions and conversations around identity because I really do think it's an
1:52.8	important piece to the puzzle of being a healthy person. And so you guys hear me talk about
1:57.1	identity a whole lot. And like Kim said today on the caller question, what you believe
2:04.2	about yourself determines the kind of relationships you believe you deserve. And there is something
2:09.3	really powerful about understanding that statement and how it applies to our life, because
2:15.1	there's so many things that come to rob us of our identity
2:17.8	and particularly our identity in Christ. And so today we're shifting gears a little bit with this
2:25.1	conversation and I have my friend Jamie Ivy joining me on the podcast. Do you guys know Jamie
2:30.9	she's been on the podcast before? But today we're going to dive a little deeper
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