Teen Whisperer | Parenting Teen Girls
Parenting support for parenting teen girls starts with understanding what’s happening beneath the big emotions and tricky behaviour.
Host Rach Friedli explores teen mental health, teen health, adolescent development, hormones, anxiety, nervous system regulation, and screen time effects.
Get practical tools for better teen communication and a stronger mother daughter relationship, grounded in physiology , biology and real-world challenges of raising tween and teen girls.
Episodes
104 episodes
Teen Girl Sleep Deprivation | Body Clocks, Hormones & Morning Struggle
Why does she vanish under the duvet when there's something fun planned? Teen girl sleep deprivation isn't laziness, it's physiology. In this episode, discover the body clock that shifts during puberty, the sleep debt tha...
Teen Girl Anger | Beyond Bad Behaviour
When your teen girl explodes over nothing, anger isn't the real problem. In this episode, I zoom out to understand what's really driving her emotional outbursts: nervous system overload, unmet sleep, screen fatigue, and the hidden b...
Teen Phone Addiction | What She Really Needs from Her Screen
Understanding teen girls means seeing past the screen. Your daughter's phone isn't the problem, it's meeting a real need for emotional regulation, co-regulation, or connection. In this episode, we reframe phone addiction...
Mum-Daughter Communication | Why She Shuts Down & How To Reconnect
"You don't understand." "You're so controlling." When your daughter shuts you down, it's instinct to defend yourself, explain, or fix what's wrong. But here's the physiology: that response may be exactly what wi...
Beyond The Label | What Your Teen Girl Really Needs
Labels feel like answers. But when your teen girl's anxiety, ADHD, or autism becomes the lens you look through, you might miss what her nervous system is actually trying to tell you. In this episode, we ditch diagnosis-a...
Beyond Diagnosis | What's Really Going On With Teen Girls
Ever found yourself Googling your daughter at 11pm, desperate to understand what's really going on?Is it ADHD, anxiety, hormones, her phone, or just being a teen girl? In this episode, we take a step back from behaviour and l...
Teen Girl Nervous System | When Irritability Signals Burnout
When your teen girl snaps, eye-rolls, or gives you *that look*, it's tempting to see it as attitude, but constant grumpiness signals emotional overwhelm and a nervous system running on empty. In this episode, we decode what’s behind...
Staying in Her Room Isn't Rejection | Nervous System Regulation
When your teen girl retreats to her room and locks the door, it feels like rejection. But her nervous system is actually doing exactly what it's supposed to do. In this episode, discover what emotional regulation truly l...
Emotional Regulation Starts with Sleep | The Biology Behind Bedtime
Nervous system regulation is the missing link to teen sleep. It's midnight and her light's still on, but what if the real problem isn't her sleep, it's what happens inside *you* when she won't sleep? Discover why teen gi...
Running on Empty | How Teen Girl Mental Health Shows Up as 'Bad Behaviour'
When your teen girl seems defiant or disrespectful, her body might be screaming: "I'm running on empty." In this episode, we decode what emotional regulation actually means and why understanding teen girl behaviour starts with recog...
Understanding Teen Phone Use | It's About Regulation, Not Willpower
When your teen girl won't put her phone down, it's not laziness or addiction, it's emotional regulation seeking. In this episode, we decode why phone use is a nervous system response, how regulations (not restrictions) actually work...
Teen Girl Mood Swings | Why Her Body Not Her Attitude, Is Sending A Message
She's fine at breakfast, unravelling by home time and you think you did something wrong..You didn't. Understanding teen girl mood swings means learning to read her body's signals, not her attitude. In this episode, we decode ...
Understanding Teen Girl Behaviour | The Nervous System Framework
Parenting teen girls feels impossible when one strategy works for a week then fails completely. Here's why: teen girl behaviour is never about a single cause. Discover the multi-layer framework that reveals what's *really* driving h...
She Won't Talk to You | Parenting Teen Girls Through Emotional Shutdowns
She won't talk. She shuts down. You're left guessing what's wrong, and your questions only push her further away. In this episode, decode why teen girls go silent and discover the nervous-system moves that actually recon...
Why Is My Daughter Always On Her Phone? | (It's Not What You Think)
Understanding teen girl behaviour starts with biology, not blame. Discover why your daughter can't put her phone down, not because she doesn't want to, but because her developing brain is wired to seek connection and dopamine. ...
Understanding Teen Girls’ Hormonal Intelligence | A Game Changing Framework
This week we’re starting with a game changing truth: your daughter is literally a different person every single week. As women, we run on a 28 day cycle, not a 24hr one. In this episode I reveal why every strategy you’ve tried (the...
Teen Girl Anxiety & Sleep Loss | The Nervous System Connection
Teen girl anxiety and mood crashes often start with one hidden culprit: sleep loss.In this episode, discover how sleep deprivation isn't just making her tired, it's rewiring her nervous system, hijacking her emotional regulation, and tur...
Understanding Teen Girl Behaviour | The Body Signals Guide
The door slam. The silence. The one-word answers. Whatever it looked like in your house this week, or over half term, I want to tell you something that changes everything: her behaviour is not the problem. It's information. It's her body tellin...
Co-Regulation Starts With You | Regulate Your Nervous System First
Your nervous system is the secret to understanding teen girl behaviour. Before you can regulate your daughter's emotions, you need to regulate yours, because her nervous system reads your body's signals, not your words. ...
Why Teen Girls Can’t Put Their Phones Down | The Nervous System Angle
Nervous system regulation in teen girls: why biology explains the phone addiction better than willpower ever could. Discover the dopamine trap, the three senses she loses when scrolling, why touch matters more for girls, and how a ...
Parenting Teen Girls & Phone Anxiety | Why Limits Alone Don't Work
You've set the limits. She went straight back. Here's what's really happening: nervous system regulation, not willpower. This episode reveals what your daughter's nervous system craves when she reaches for her phone, why...
Teen Girls Anxiety: Why Nothing Has Worked And What Actually Does
Teen girls anxiety and overwhelm often resist "traditional" strategies, here's why. In this episode, discover why almost all mental health tools were built on male biology. What you'll learn: The 28-d...
The Most Powerful Parenting Tool for Girls' Mental Health You Didn't Know You Had
Understanding girls' mental health and teenage behaviour starts with one of the most powerful but often overlooked tools: co-regulation. In this episode, we explore how your presence and nervous system act as a behavioural message to your daugh...
Looking After Yourself as a Mum of a Girl: Understanding Stress and Body Signals
This episode is a heartfelt message to every mum working her way through the day to day life of parenting teen girls and supporting their mental health. We explore the behavioural messages your body sends when you're running on empty and how su...
What Counts as Movement When She Won't Leave Her Room - Parenting Teen Girls
Movement plays a crucial role in girls' mental health, especially when your teen daughter is struggling to leave her room. In this episode, we explore how to recognise what truly counts as movement when traditional activities like w...