Teen Whisperer Podcast | Parenting Girls and 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 Podcast | Parenting Girls and Mental Health
Latest Episodes
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...
Her Body Knows What to Do: Understanding how Stress Shows Up in Teen Girls
If you find yourself asking your teen daughter how her day was, only to get a short or blank response, you're not alone. This episode dives deep into what stress actually is and exploring why traditional talking doesn't help reduce ...
