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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Alisa Pressman and I'm so thrilled to be here with you

to share an episode with Dr. Lisa DeMour, who I have on so often because she is such a leading

voice in adolescent mental health. And she has a new book that is so fantastic. You read it and

you feel like, okay, I'm not alone in this Raising Teenagers thing. She's recognized as a

thought leader by the American Psychological Association. She co-hosts her own podcast, Ask Dr.

Alisa. She writes about adolescence for The New York Times. She collaborates with UNICEF.

She's written two New York Times bestsellers untangled and under pressure, both about adolescent

girls. And now, finally, after everybody begged, she wrote a book about adolescence, all genders.

It's so good. We're here to talk about it. And of course, if you enjoy this episode,

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This month was all about resilience. Next month is all about mindfulness and parenting.

Thank you for being part of this community and for your support. And now we're going to talk

to Dr. Alisa. So today, let's just start with defining mental health.

This is really important. And it's probably one of the main reasons I wrote this book,

is that I felt that how the culture broadly had started to define mental health really

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