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
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...