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Back to EpisodesWhen You're Trying Not to Fall Apart: Supporting Girls' Mental Health and Mother-Daughter Relationships
Description
Apologies for the sound on this episode
In 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 adolescent behaviour changes. We explore why your daughter's nervous system dysregulation directly affects your own and why it's not a sign of failure but biology.
You'll gain insights into recognising your own dysregulation and learn practical techniques to help regulate yourself, so you can stay steady and present for your daughter. Plus, discover an anchoring sentence to return to when feeling overwhelmed and understand the importance of allowing yourself to struggle during tough parenting moments.
If you're exhausted from trying to hold it all together for your daughter, this episode offers permission to be human while guiding you through ways to strengthen your mother daughter relationship through understanding and connection.
Resources mentioned:
Join WTF: What's The Feeling - a community for mums supporting girls in shutdown, freeze, or overwhelm. No judgment, just understanding.
If today's episode landed for you, if you heard something that made you think yes, that's my daughter, that's exactly what's going on, then I want you to know there's a place where we go deeper on all of this together. It's called WTF - What's The Feeling - and it's my membership for mums who are ready to stop firefighting and start actually understanding what's going on. You'll find the link here. Come and have a look. I think you'll feel right at home.
Wish your daughter had her own podcast to help understand what’s going on? Send her to Girl You’ve Got This - available on all major platforms.
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See you next time! 💛