How To Guide Your Teenager Through a Toxic Breakup

Keep a protective connection with your child while you allow for their own necessary growth

Becky Piatt Davidson
Better Humans
Published in
10 min readSep 12, 2022

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Photo of a teenage couple, with just their legs pictured. He’s wearing pinstripe dress pants and classic white high-top Converse. She’s wearing a summery dress and platform sandals, her toenails a light, turquoise blue. You can see that they’re holding hands.
Photo of my son and K, courtesy of Kim Flynn Photography

She reminded me of a young Scarlett Johansson, about as physically perfect as any human I’ve ever met. I’ll call her “K”.

You’ve got to picture this girl. Beachy blond hair, a megawatt smile, a pair of…

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Native Californian by way of Barcelona & Utah. Mother to 4 beautiful humans. Saved by meditation. Founder of Lotimus.com, a hero’s journey meditation practice.