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If you’re parenting a teen with a mental health condition, like borderline personality disorder, you may recognize the constant confusion: Is this normal? Am I helping, or making it worse? Why does nothing seem to work?

In this episode, I’m joined by Michelle Park, a mom who courageously shares her family’s long and winding journey of parenting a teen with borderline personality disorder. Michelle takes us all the way back to early childhood, through misdiagnoses, masking, suicide attempts, and multiple levels of care, and into the crucial shifts that ultimately helped her daughter and family heal.

What makes this conversation so powerful isn’t just the treatment story. It’s the parenting transformation Michelle had to make along the way. She opens up about letting go of fixing, silver-lining, and minimizing pain and learning instead how to validate emotions, sit with discomfort, and radically accept her daughter for who she is.

This episode is honest, emotional, and hopeful. It’s for those of you who are exhausted, scared, and wondering whether change is even possible, both for your teen and for yourself.

In this episode on parenting a teen with borderline personality disorder, we discuss:

• Michelle’s journey through early signs of emotional dysregulation in her daughter and how they’re often missed;
• The impact of misdiagnosis, masking, and “whack-a-mole” treatment;
• What borderline personality disorder can look like in teens and young adults;
• Why validation (not fixing) became the turning point in Michelle’s parenting;
• How long-term treatment supported real, lasting change for Michelle’s family;
• The important role parents play in recovery, and why family work matters so much;
• Letting go of expectations and redefining success for your struggling teen;
• Finding hope, support, and community as a parent of a child with a mental health condition.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)
• NEABPD (National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder)

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✨ 6-week Boundaries Masterclass ✨

Starting January 13th -- Early Bird price until December 31st!

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I hope to see you there!