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.
Teen Whisperer | Parenting Teen Girls
Latest Episodes
Understanding Teen Girls | The Need Behind Late Night Phone Use
Teen screen time can be about more than the screen. When your daughter is still on her phone after midnight, what might she be seeking, soothing, or avoiding? Rach looks beneath the behaviour to explore teen girl emotion...
Understanding Teen Girls | A New Way to Read Mood and Behaviour
Teen girl mood swings can feel confusing, but understanding teen girls starts with looking beyond behaviour. In this episode, Rach explores how a girl’s monthly rhythm may influence energy, sleep, appetite and capacity, and introduc...
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...
