Lisa A. Phillips, FIRST LOVE: Guiding Teens Through Relationships and Heartbreak
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
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🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Zibby chats with professor and award-winning journalist Lisa A. Phillips about her new book, FIRST LOVE: Guiding Teens Through Relationships and Heartbreak. Lisa delves into how parents can support their teens through first crushes, breakups, and young love, emphasizing the importance of validating teens’ feelings and offering practical strategies to help them heal, from setting social media boundaries to finding healthy distractions. She also touches on the science behind heartbreak and the addictive nature of romantic love.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
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| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens. |
| 0:44.5 | Lisa A. Phillips is the author of First Love, Guiding Teens through Relationships and Heartbreak. |
| 0:50.7 | Lisa has written about relationships, mental health, and teens for the New York Times, |
| 0:54.3 | The Washington Post, Long Reads, Psychology Today, Cosmopolitan, Salon, and other outlets. |
| 0:58.8 | She teaches journalism and the popular Love and Heartbreak Seminar at the State University of New York |
| 1:03.1 | at New Paltz. She's published two previous books, Unrequited, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Romantic |
| 1:08.1 | Obsession, and Public Radio Behind the Voices. |
| 1:11.6 | She began her journalism career in public radio, working for radio stations in the Midwest and Northeast for more than a decade. |
| 1:17.6 | Lisa now lives in New York's Hudson Valley. |
| 1:20.3 | Welcome, Lisa. |
| 1:21.0 | Thank you so much for coming on Totally Bucked to talk about First Love, Guiding Teens, through relationships relationships and heartbreak. Congratulations. |
| 1:29.1 | Thank you so much for having me. It's my pleasure. As a mom of two almost 18-year-olds and an 11- and 10-year-old, |
| 1:37.5 | I am in this world, obviously, like so many friends of mine, and this is a topic that a lot of us |
| 1:43.2 | talk about. How do we help our kids through these things? Where is the guidebook? How do we do it? And how much it kind of breaks our own hearts whenever anything happens to a child of ours and brings back our own memories, all of which you write about in this book, about your own story and everything. Tell listeners a little bit about your book and furthermore, |
| 2:02.7 | like, how we can help our kids better through this life stage where we can't, we can no longer |
| 2:08.5 | put, you know, child safety things around a table and protect them. It's just they're out there. |
| 2:14.6 | Yeah, that's a great way of putting it. They are out there. What do we do? So just to give an |
| 2:21.2 | overview of what the book is, First Love is a book that chronicles the challenges that teens face as they |
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