Teen Whisperer | Understanding Teen Girl Mental Health
This podcast is your essential guide to understanding teen girls, teen girl mental health, and parenting teen 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.
It focuses on the unique challenges of tween and teen girl’s development, including hormones, anxiety, emotional cycles, and communication struggles. Learn how to decode teen behaviour, and support your daughter using tools and real-world experience that cuts through frustration and guilt.
Every week, I bring you the biology, the physiology, 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.
And if you’ve ever wondered how her scrolling is never just about why she scrolls like it’s going out of fashion… Check out my new freebie on the individual episode description - 15 Quick Wins and give her the thing she’s actually craving.
Let's make understanding our girls 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 and confidence.
Episodes
95 episodes
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...
Why Your Teen Girl Won't Talk to You | Teen Girl Behaviour Decoded
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...
Girl Behaviour Decoded | What Her Nervous System Is Telling You
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...
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 ...
The Freeze Rule: Supporting Girls' Mental Health Through Connection and Safety
If you've ever found yourself hesitating outside your teenage daughter's door, unsure of how to support her silent withdrawal, this episode is crafted with you in mind. Dive deep into understanding girls' mental health and teenage b...
Staying Calm When She's Dysregulated: Supporting Girls' Mental Health and Behaviour
In this episode, we dive deep into girls mental health and how it affects teen behaviour, especially when daughters become emotionally dysregulated. We focus on parenting support strategies that empower mums to maintain calm and regulation even...
Understanding Your Daughter’s Emotional State: Fight, Flight, Freeze & Fawn
In this episode, I delve into understanding girls' mental health through identifying the emotional states that your daughter might be experiencing: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. Many parents struggle to decode teenage behaviour an...
Regulation Before Behaviour: Transforming Parenting for Girls' Mental Health
When your daughter is dysregulated, traditional parenting methods like consequences, logic, and talking often don’t work, not because you’re doing it wrong, but because her nervous system isn’t available for any of it. In this episo...
When No One Understands Your Daughter's Mental Health
Understanding teen behaviour and girls' mental health is crucial for mums who feel misunderstood when supporting their daughters. In this episode, I explore why your daughter might mask her struggles at school and express them at home, revealin...
When You're Trying Not to Fall Apart: Supporting Girls' Mental Health and Mother-Daughter Relationships
Apologies for the sound on this episodeIn this episode, I dive deeply into the challenges of supporting girls' mental health, especially for mothers working their way through the difficulties of the mother-daughter relationship during ad...
What Freeze Actually Looks Like in Girls and Why We Often Miss It: Understanding Girls' Mental Health
If you believe anxiety in girls only looks like panic and restlessness, think again. In this episode, I explore an often overlooked aspect of girls' mental health: the freeze response. When your daughter can't get out of bed, refuse...
It's Not Just Hormones: Understanding Girls' Mental Health Through Their Nervous System
Your daughter slams the door, stops eating, or withdraws to her room for hours. Everyone tells you it’s just hormones, but what if the root cause is her nervous system influencing girls' mental health and adolescent behaviour? This ...