Master class launch - Monday 12th December at 1pm

How are you feeling within the behaviours with your teen daughter? I bet you’re feeling crap and useless like it’s all your fault. Sometimes it just feels like your whole world is collapsing around you and you’re left reeling from yet another exchange. Is it me that’s done this to my daughter, maybe it’s something that’s happened in my childhood.. ? We all feel shite from time to time but there is a way out. Speak to someone else who understands how it is for you, who can see it from a zoomed out view, rather than your in the moment view. Taking time out to recognise that your behaviour reflects a need is super powerful. It also helps our teen daughters to see that they don’t have to keep doing it all the time. They can rest, they can admit that they feel pants. We and them don’t have to do it all.

Continuing the topic from last week..about peer orientation and how being with their friends 24/7 affects how their brains 🧠 work and reacts to everyday stress. Listen more as to how peer orientation not only affects your daughter, it also affects how you feel about yourself.

Today I talk about how society/education/culture has us believing that we are not needed in our teen daughters lives, that they ‘should’ get all their support from their friends. As a Mum you still have a place in her life, to be connected to her (despite what her behaviours are showing you) and guiding her. If you like what you hear, keep listening and following over the next few weeks and sign up for the waitlist for a new 12mth community programme that I will be launching 12th December via my website at www.positivetouch.net or via my page on Instagram at teen.whisperer.nature

Talking about community, love and connection and being around other people who are the same boat as you. As women and girls, we are wired to be in connection, we are wired to be in a community setting and if that is taken away from us, we start floundering, we start drowning. So this is what I am going to talk to you about this week..

Ever get those feelings that your teen daughter hates you? Everything you try just doesn’t cut it any more…and you’re feeling lost and alone.. 4 insights into what’s actually happening with your teenage daughter

Taking time out for YOU. So my body had been giving me subtle hints to take a step back and I wasn’t listening. You know the feeling - not having enough energy, not eating properly, not feeling awake - well my body had had enough of me ignoring those hints and it hit me straight between the eyes to STOP. Masking our negative emotions tells our teen daughters to ignore their feelings, making them far bigger and scarier leading to imploding and exploding behaviours. Listen in for how to change this so you can regain your self care and help them to understand their emotions and feelings. Take care Rachel x

MAKING SPACE FOR YOU - is the one of the 4 🔑s to reconnecting with your teen daughter. Making space for your needs and booking it in your diary gives you the headspace to focus on everything else. How I hear you ask? If your daughter sees you looking after yourself and relishing in it, she too can choose to make space for herself. Our teen girls learn by what they see. If she sees you running around like a headless chicken, that’s what she’s going to do. Now do you get it? We’re like a mirror to our daughters so if they see you constantly on the go, they will mirror your behaviours and do the same things. This week make a plan as to what you can do for yourself and stick to it. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t materialise every day, you now have the choice to make space for your needs.

So the workshop that was, didn’t , materialise. This is due to me not having the headspace or energy to do the launch 🚀 process. It’s ok not to feel ok and we need to understand how by keeping going and making it look normal, doesn’t help us at all. We need time to process what’s happening and the only way to do that is to stop and breathe. Feel free to connect with me either on Instagram at teen.whisperer.nature or via my website at www.positivetouch.net/connect Rachel x

A reintroduction as to who I am and how I can support you as a Mum of a teenage daughter. If you like what you hear and would like to connect with me check out my website at www.positivetouch.net/connect or on Instagram at teen.whisperer.nature Rachel x