184. UNHEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS: Red Flags & Risk Factors in Teen Relationships feat. Eden Garcia-Balis

She Persisted: Your Teen Mental Health Resource

#184 Today's guest is Eden Garcia-Balis— a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has over nineteen years of experience in the mental health field. She is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Airport Marina Counseling Service (AMCS)— a nonprofit, community-based mental health clinic in California. In this episode, we discuss:

+ How to tell if you're in a healthy or unhealthy relationship

+ Signs of an abusive relationship

+ The link between abusive relationships & anxiety and depression

+ Questions you need to ask yourself about your relationship

+ Risk factors that someone could end up in an unhealthy relationship

+ How to set boundaries in a relationship

+ What to do if your partner is unreceptive to your boundaries

+ Ways to help someone who's in an unhealthy relationship

+ Unhealthy relationships in pop culture

+ Tips on how parents should talk to teens about relationships

+ Healing from abusive relationships

+ Relationship resources she recommends

AMCS's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amcshelps/

MENTIONED

+ AMCS's Website

+ Love is Respect

+ She Persisted Ep. 180

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