Building Healthy Relationships: Part 2 – Coping, Healing & Holding On to Your Peace with Erika Young-Thompson, LCMHC, LCAS, NCC

In Part 3 of our most-requested conversation, Charise Beckett is joined once again by her best friend and expert therapist Erika Young-Thompson for a deeper, more grounded follow-up to Building Healthy Relationships.

This time, it’s all about the tools.

Because understanding what a healthy relationship looks like is one thing—but maintaining your peace while you grow through one? That’s where the real work lives.

Together, Charise and Erika unpack the emotional side of healing in relationships and provide practical, real-time coping tools for managing triggers, setting boundaries, and recognizing when it’s time to seek professional support. From real-life scenarios to mental health resources, this episode is the reminder that growth doesn’t mean perfection—it means practicing peace, one choice at a time.

You’ll walk away with:

• Grounding techniques for high-stress moments

• Tips for reinforcing boundaries that honor your healing

• Clear guidance on when to seek therapy—and how to find the right provider

• Book recommendations and mental health resources you can use today

This is an episode for the strong friend, the over-giver, and the woman who’s learning to choose herself without apology.

🎧 Tune in now and take what you need, Queen.

 

Erika currently provides therapeutic services at University Psychological Associates, a group practice in Charlotte, NC.
She can be contacted at www.upatherapists.com or Psychology Today.

 

Book Recommendations: 

How To Do The Work-Dr.Nicole LePera

Set Boundaries Find Peace-Nedra Glover Tawwab

Attached-Dr. Amir Levine & Rachel Heller M.A.

Find Your People-Jennie Allen

The Let Them Theory-Mel Robbins

 

🧠 Mental Health Resources:

• NAMI – National Alliance on Mental Illness

• 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline – Call or text 988

• National Suicide Prevention Hotline – 1-800-273-TALK (8255)