Teen Whisperer | Understanding Teen Girl Mental Health
This is THE podcast for mums of girls.
Whether your daughter is a tween, teen or young woman, and you want to understand what the friggidy frigg is really going on beneath the tricky behaviour, the big emotions, and the screen she won't put down, this is the podcast for you.
Here's the truth nobody else is saying. Girls are not small boys. They run on a completely different biological operating system, a 28-day cycle instead of a 24-hour one. Different hormones, different stress responses, different energy, different needs, week by week, month by month. And almost every parenting tool, every expert strategy, every piece of advice you've ever been handed? Built on male biology. Handed to you as if it would work the same way for her.
It doesn't. And that is why nothing has worked.
Too often we're told it's "just" hormones, or she's too sensitive, or she needs to put the phone down. But what if I told you the phone isn't the problem, it's a message from a nervous system that isn't getting what it was designed to need? These are natural responses to an unnatural world. And when you understand them, you can stop reacting with frustration and start responding with insight.
Every week, Health Play Specialist and mum Rach Friedli brings you the biology, the tools, and the honest conversation that should have happened years ago. The nervous system science behind her behaviour. The truth about what tech is actually doing in her body. The Whole Body Reset tools that give her something better to reach for, because we can't talk it out of our girls. But we can give their nervous systems somewhere better to go.
Shocked. Inspired. Eyes wide open. That's what I want for you.
Because so much of what we've been told about parenting girls is wrong, wrapped up in control, pressure and guilt. The world isn't set up for our girls. But there is a different way. A way that starts with understanding her body, her cycle, and the world she's actually living in.
Let's make this a revolution, one episode at a time, so our girls grow up feeling seen, safe and capable. And we can stop parenting from fear and start parenting from insight
Teen Whisperer | Understanding Teen Girl Mental Health
I’m losing her and I don’t know what to do
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What happens when the daughter you love more than anything starts slipping away?
When every conversation turns into a fight, when she locks herself in her room - not just physically, but emotionally?
When you’re walking on eggshells, afraid that one wrong word will push her further?
I know that feeling. Because I’ve lived it.
I’ve stood outside her door, heart pounding, not knowing if she was okay. Not knowing if I should walk away or try again. Not knowing if I was failing her.
But here’s what I need you to hear: You are not failing.
We’re told teen girls are just “moody.” That it’s just hormones. That it’s just how they are. But what if that’s not true?
What if her anger, her shutdowns, her spirals - aren’t bad behaviour, but biology?
What if her emotions aren’t attitude, but signals - messages from her body, screaming to be heard?
The day I stopped asking, What’s wrong with her? and started asking, What else is at play? - everything changed.
That shift saved my daughter’s life. And it saved mine too.
If you’ve ever felt helpless, exhausted, or so f*cking alone in motherhood, this episode is for you.
Listen now and join the movement: WTF (What’s The Feeling?) - because it’s time to stop just surviving and start truly understanding.
If today's episode landed for you, if you heard something that made you think yes, that's my daughter, that's exactly what's going on, then I want you to know there's a place where we go deeper on all of this together. It's called WTF - What's The Feeling - and it's my membership for mums who are ready to stop firefighting and start actually understanding what's going on. You'll find the link here. Come and have a look. I think you'll feel right at home.
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See you next time! 💛
