FREE LIVE TRAINING — TUESDAY, JULY 28 @ 12PM ET

From Walking on Eggshells

to Talking Openly With Your Teen,

Starting This Week

Where should we send your ZOOM LINK for the LIVE CLASS?

Discover the two questions you can ask your teen to start the shift.

No lectures, no ultimatums, and no forcing them into therapy.

WHERE SHOULD WE SEND YOUR ZOOM LINK?

BONUS: Stay until the end of the live training and get my Rules of Engagement, a step-by-step guide for turning any blow-up, with your teen, your spouse, anyone, into a five-minute conversation instead of a week of walking on eggshells. (Free for live attendees only)

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This is a live-only training. A replay will not be provided.

Only live attendees will receive the Rules of Engagement bonus.

NOTE: This is a live-only training.
A replay will not be provided.

On This Free 60-Minute

Live Training, You'll Discover:

The two questions that are still resetting relationships years after families first ask them, and why asking them beats months of lectures, threats, or consequences (plus exactly how to ask them yourself, this week)
The "Goldilocks Zone" almost no parent has heard of: why more rules and tighter consequences quietly push your teen further away (and the exact shift that opens the door back up)
How to change your relationship with your teen without changing your teen, and why this works better than trying to fix their behavior: the reframe I've used with hundreds of families to turn defiance into connection
A framework for hearing your teen say something kind again, in days, not years: the exact shift Amanda used to go from "my daughter doesn't respect me" to her daughter saying, "You're doing a good job, Mom," after years without a real conversation

WHAT PARENTS SAY

"Honestly, “two questions” sounded a little gimmicky to me, but it’s more than two questions. It’s a very specific process for framing and asking the two questions and the thinking behind it goes right to the heart of the friction with my teen. He thinks I nag when I’m trying to help. This process really helped us be nicer to each other."

Christy M.

Mom of 15-year-old boy

"Before I went to the webinar, our 16-year-old son was totally withdrawn from the family. All he wanted to do was be out of the house with his friends or alone in his room. When we tried to get him to engage he just said we don’t get it. I didn’t even think I could get him to have a conversation with me, but the way the two questions are set up, he actually answered honestly. It didn’t solve everything, but it was a really good start."

Alan M.

Dad of 16-your-old boy

"'I give my teen a lot of freedom because my parents were super strict. The webinar made me see the importance of “the Goldilocks Zone” between being too permissive and too controlling. This set up a really great conversation with my 17-year-old daughter."

Samantha B.

Mom of 17-year-old girl

"When Kristin said I shouldn’t read my daughter’s pulling away as rejection, I didn’t understand. I didn’t know how not to take it personally when she’s so disrespectful. But the webinar made me see things from my daughter’s side, and I was able to shift not just how I think about things but how I approach her. She noticed immediately. I was shocked how quickly we were able to have a different kind of conversation."

Kelley H.

Mom of 15-year-old daughter

"I’ve told so many people about this webinar because it really helped me change the way I was showing up with my son, Adam. I thought he was the one who needed to change, but when I changed, he responded really, really well. Definitely stay to the end because we have the Rules of Engagement on our refrigerator now and the whole family uses it. It’s been a game-changer for us."

Chris W.

Dad of 14-year-old son

"Of course I knew the problem wasn’t 100% my daughter, that the way I was handling things wasn’t perfect. But Kristin has a gentle, non-blaming way of helping you see how things you don’t even realize are sending the wrong message to your teen. It seems obvious now but it was eye-opening and Kaylee responded immediately when I stopped doing those things. This was so helpful."

Julie P.

Mom of 15-year-old girl

100% Free to Attend | Tuesday, July 28 @ 12pm ET

100% Free to Attend

Tuesday, July 28 @ 12 pm ET

This Live Free Training Is For You If:

You never know which version of your teen you're going to get...

... One day they're fine, the next you're walking on eggshells wondering what will set them off. You're exhausted from managing their moods before you've even said anything. You're ready for calm to be the norm, not the exception.

You're trying to help but your teen hears nagging...

... Your reminders and questions get eye-rolls, annoyed sighs, or silence back. You know your intention isn't landing the way you mean it. You're ready to say the same things in a way they can actually hear.

Your teen is pulling away and it feels personal...

... The disrespect, the silence, the slammed door, it's hard not to read it as rejection. You're starting to wonder if you're losing them for good. You're ready to understand what's actually happening underneath it.

Your teen would rather be anywhere but with you...

... They're out with friends or alone in their room, and when you try to talk, you get “you don't get it.” You've almost given up on getting a real answer out of them. You're ready for one honest conversation, even a short one.

You know you're not perfect, but you can't see what you're doing wrong...

... You're doing your best, yet the tension keeps building anyway. You suspect you're sending signals you don't mean to send. You're ready for someone to show you, gently, what you can't see yourself.

You keep waiting for your teen to be the one who changes...

... You've tried talking, tried consequences, tried giving space, and nothing sticks. Deep down you wonder if the shift actually needs to start with you. You're ready to try that instead.

LIVE TRAINING - TUESDAY, JULY 28 @ 12PM ET

FREE 60-Minute Live Training

Bonus: Rules of Engagement, a step-by-step guide that transforms conflict resolution in families.

(Free for live attendees only)

Tuesday, July 28th @ 12pm ET

My Why

Hi. I’m Kristin MacDermott, and I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist. For more than 25 years, I've worked with an unusually wide range of people: cancer patients and burned-out nurses, military families and first responders, couples, parents, and students in schools ranging from inner city public schools to military academies to elite private schools.

But whether it was a disease, deployment, career or life stressor, my work almost always came back to the same thing: families.

When they function well, families are our greatest source of love, support, resilience and joy. But too often, for a multitude of reasons, some as serious as illness or loss, some as ordinary as raising a teenager, families become our greatest source of pain.

This isn't just theory for me. My three grown children call me almost daily just to share their lives with me, and that is the joy of my life. I've been married to their father for 34 years, and I consider that an accomplishment. Not that he hasn't been an absolute pleasure the whole time (right, honey), but relationships take work. Helping families find their way back to joy is my life's work.

Along the way I learned quite a lot about resilience. My resilience-training curriculum has been validated in multiple studies by researchers at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, published in peer-reviewed journals, and proven to promote clinically significant improvement in distress, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and self-efficacy.

My resilience-training programs have been used by Navy SEALs, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and more than 20 hospitals across the country, and funded by institutions like the National Cancer Institute, Pfizer, and the Susan G. Komen Foundation.