In this episode we get honest about what it’s really like to parent teens when the system meant to support us just... doesn’t.Laura (psychotherapist, parenting author and founder of Parentology) and Naomi (Emotional Mastery Coach and founder of Mums Like Us) reflect on both their professional experience and personal chaos from school avoidance and CAMHS waitlists to dysregulated dinner times and mid-meltdown breath work.

We talk about how emotional regulation actually looks in messy family life, what burnout does to our parenting, and how even as “experts”, we still get it wrong. Because we’re in it with you as professionals, but also as mums of teens trying to figure this all out to!

In this episode:

- When systems don’t support the families who need it most

- Why real-time support matters more than referral pathways

- What emotional regulation really looks like (and why it’s hard)

- How parent burnout affects your child’s nervous system

- The problem with “holding it all together” for too long

- Why Naomi left social care to support families more flexibly

- How Laura manages emotional overload - and sometimes doesn’t!

- Learning to practice what we preach, imperfectly

Grab the resources mentioned:

💻 ⁠Parentology Website

⁠📘 ⁠Free Resource Hub

⁠📅 ⁠Book a Free Call⁠

👥 ⁠Parenting Teens Hub Facebook Group

⁠📸 ⁠Instagram – @parentology_hub⁠

✨ ⁠Mums Like Us Facebook Page⁠

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Until next week!

Laura & Naomi x