Teen Whisperer | Parenting Teen Girls

By Rach Friedli - Specialist in Understanding Teen Girls

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Parenting support for parenting teen girls starts with understanding what’s happening beneath the big emotions and tricky behaviour. 


Host Rach Friedli explores teen mental health, teen health, adolescent development, hormones, anxiety, nervous system regulation, and screen time effects. 


Get practical tools for better teen communication and a stronger mother daughter relationship, grounded in physiology , biology and real-world challenges of raising tween and teen girls.


Episode Date
Understanding Teen Girls | A New Way to Read Mood and Behaviour
Oct 07, 2026
Teen Girl Sleep Deprivation | Body Clocks, Hormones & Morning Struggle
Sep 30, 2026
Teen Girl Anger | Beyond Bad Behaviour
Sep 23, 2026
Teen Phone Addiction | What She Really Needs from Her Screen
Sep 16, 2026
Mum-Daughter Communication | Why She Shuts Down & How To Reconnect
Sep 09, 2026
Beyond The Label | What Your Teen Girl Really Needs
Sep 02, 2026
Beyond Diagnosis | What's Really Going On With Teen Girls
Aug 26, 2026
Teen Girl Nervous System | When Irritability Signals Burnout
Aug 19, 2026
Staying in Her Room Isn't Rejection | Nervous System Regulation
Aug 12, 2026
Emotional Regulation Starts with Sleep | The Biology Behind Bedtime
Aug 05, 2026
Running on Empty | How Teen Girl Mental Health Shows Up as 'Bad Behaviour'
Jul 29, 2026
Understanding Teen Phone Use | It's About Regulation, Not Willpower
Jul 22, 2026
Teen Girl Mood Swings | Why Her Body Not Her Attitude, Is Sending A Message
Jul 15, 2026
Understanding Teen Girl Behaviour | The Nervous System Framework
Jul 08, 2026
She Won't Talk to You | Parenting Teen Girls Through Emotional Shutdowns
Jun 30, 2026
Why Is My Daughter Always On Her Phone? | (It's Not What You Think)
Jun 23, 2026
Understanding Teen Girls’ Hormonal Intelligence | A Game Changing Framework
Jun 17, 2026
Teen Girl Anxiety & Sleep Loss | The Nervous System Connection
Jun 10, 2026
Understanding Teen Girl Behaviour | The Body Signals Guide
Jun 03, 2026
Co-Regulation Starts With You | Regulate Your Nervous System First
May 27, 2026
Why Teen Girls Can’t Put Their Phones Down | The Nervous System Angle
May 20, 2026
Parenting Teen Girls & Phone Anxiety | Why Limits Alone Don't Work
May 13, 2026
Teen Girls Anxiety: Why Nothing Has Worked And What Actually Does
May 06, 2026
The Most Powerful Parenting Tool for Girls' Mental Health You Didn't Know You Had
Apr 28, 2026
Looking After Yourself as a Mum of a Girl: Understanding Stress and Body Signals
Apr 22, 2026
What Counts as Movement When She Won't Leave Her Room - Parenting Teen Girls
Apr 15, 2026
Her Body Knows What to Do: Understanding how Stress Shows Up in Teen Girls
Apr 08, 2026
The Freeze Rule: Supporting Girls' Mental Health Through Connection and Safety
Apr 01, 2026
Staying Calm When She's Dysregulated: Supporting Girls' Mental Health and Behaviour
Mar 25, 2026
Understanding Your Daughter’s Emotional State: Fight, Flight, Freeze & Fawn
Mar 18, 2026
Regulation Before Behaviour: Transforming Parenting for Girls' Mental Health
Mar 11, 2026
When No One Understands Your Daughter's Mental Health
Mar 04, 2026
When You're Trying Not to Fall Apart: Supporting Girls' Mental Health and Mother-Daughter Relationships
Feb 25, 2026
What Freeze Actually Looks Like in Girls and Why We Often Miss It: Understanding Girls' Mental Health
Feb 18, 2026
It's Not Just Hormones: Understanding Girls' Mental Health Through Their Nervous System
Feb 11, 2026
What's Behind The Behaviour: Understanding Girls' Mental Health When They Are in Freeze
Feb 04, 2026
Why Encouragement Backfires: Understanding Freeze Response in Girls' Mental Health
Jan 28, 2026
Why Phone Battles Miss What's Really Going On: Understanding Girls' Mental Health and Behaviour
Jan 21, 2026
Reset Routines That Actually Work: Supporting Girls' Mental Health Through Parenting
Jan 14, 2026
Supporting Parenting: New Year, Same Struggles? How Change Really Happens.
Jan 07, 2026
Parenting Support: What You Got Right This Year (Even If It Doesn't Feel Like It)
Dec 31, 2025
Mother Daughter Relationship: Why Mirroring Matters (And Why This Time Of Year Is So Hard).
Dec 24, 2025
Parenting Support: A Moment to Pause and Breathe
Dec 23, 2025
When Screens Steal the Season: Understanding Teenage Behaviour & Girls Mental Health
Dec 17, 2025
The Reset Your Teen Really Needs: Play
Dec 10, 2025
Christmas - Why Emotions Run High at Christmas
Dec 03, 2025
Her Rewiring Brain: The Stage No One Talks About
Nov 26, 2025
Confidence vs Comparison: Rebuilding Self Worth Online
Nov 19, 2025
Calm the Body, Calm the Mind
Nov 12, 2025
What’s Behind The Behaviour: Grief
Nov 05, 2025
Why She Just Can’t Calm Down…
Oct 22, 2025
Why Social Media Feels So Intense for Our Girls
Oct 15, 2025
Periods, Pain & Power: How to Help Your Daughter Thrive
Oct 08, 2025
When Survival Shows Up as Behaviour
Oct 01, 2025
The Pressure Trap Without The Burnout
Sep 24, 2025
Autism: From Overwhelmed to Empowered - one Mum's 7 Steps to Transform Life at Home
Sep 17, 2025
Stop Running on Empty: Why Mums Need Space
Sep 10, 2025
School Refusal Isn't Defiance - It's a Signal
Sep 03, 2025
When Fear Becomes Her Default
Aug 27, 2025
She's Not Lazy - She's Scared of the Future
Aug 20, 2025
Unlocking the Secrets to Success
Aug 13, 2025
Who Even Is She Right Now?
Aug 06, 2025
I'm Done. I've Got Nothing Left to Give.
Jul 30, 2025
From Aargh to Ahh - The Simple Reset
Jul 23, 2025
Why am I Losing it Over Nothing?
Jul 16, 2025
If Summer Feels Off, It's Not Just Her, It's You Too
Jul 09, 2025
Is It Her Mood or Your Nervous System?
Jul 02, 2025
She Doesn't Need More Monitoring - She Needs THIS
Jun 25, 2025
“She’s Hurting Herself… What Do I Do?” Breaking the Silence, Together
Jun 18, 2025
Social Media Is the Problem — Just Not In The Way You Think…
Jun 04, 2025
You Are Her Anchor: The Power of Calm in Her Chaos
May 28, 2025
Hidden Pressures Keeping Our Girls Stuck
May 21, 2025
Boys Will Be Boys - Not On Her Watch…
May 14, 2025
The One Shift That Helps Her Feel Heard (Not Attacked)
May 07, 2025
Her Behaviour Isn't Random - It's a Message in Disguise
Apr 30, 2025
Normal Teen Chaos - or Something More? What Every Parents Needs To Know
Apr 23, 2025
She Slammed the Door Again… Now What?
Apr 16, 2025
Too Much? Not Enough? Rethinking Teen Revision Stress
Apr 09, 2025
Anxiety in Girls - What if We’ve Got It Backwards?
Apr 02, 2025
WTF Is Going On?! What’s behind the eye rolls..
Mar 26, 2025
Why She Won't Own It (And How to Help)
Mar 19, 2025
Fed Up of Doing it All Alone? This One's For You
Mar 12, 2025
She’s Avoiding Everything…
Mar 05, 2025
I’m losing her and I don’t know what to do
Feb 28, 2025
Stop fixing, start connecting
Feb 19, 2025
Stay calm, stop stress, stay connected
Feb 12, 2025
Why Sleep Is Critical for Teens (and You!)
Feb 05, 2025
What’s behind disconnection?
Jan 29, 2025
Breaking The Cycle: Helping Your Teen to see their Worth
Jan 22, 2025
From Burnout to Balance: A Fresh Start for Mums of Teens
Jan 15, 2025
Why Your Teen Thinks She Has to Be Perfect - and How to Help Her See She’s Enough
Jan 08, 2025
Is Your Self Worth Tied to Your Productivity? How to Break Free and Thrive as a Mum
Jan 01, 2025
How to Help Your Daughter Thrive (and Keep Your Sanity): Supporting Your Daughter During this Mad Holiday Season
Dec 18, 2024
Feeling Aaargh This Time of Year? Too much to Do and Too Little Time? 3 Tiny Tools Every Mum Needs to Stay Sane!
Dec 11, 2024
Why Your Daughter is so Hard on Herself and How You Can Help
Dec 04, 2024
Is exam pressure pushing your teen (and you) to breaking point?
Nov 27, 2024
Feeling the Strain of Exam Mocks? How to Help Your Daughter and Keep Your Sanity
Nov 20, 2024
Becoming the mum my daughter needed: How a life changing injury taught me to thrive
Nov 13, 2024
The Real Impact of Social Media on Our Teen Daughters: What Every Mum Should Know
Nov 06, 2024
Locked School Toilets: The Hidden Impact on Our Daughter’s Wellbeing
Oct 30, 2024
Why Your Teen Daughter's Emotions Are All Over the Place (And How You Can Help!)
Oct 23, 2024
Why Your Teen Girl Feels Overwhelmed: Unpacking Stress and Anxiety
Oct 16, 2024
Is Your Teen Daughter Struggling to Fit In? Celebrate her Uniqueness Instead of Trying to Fix Her
Oct 09, 2024
Why does peer pressure hit our teen girls so hard?
Oct 02, 2024
Is Your Teen Daughter Struggling with Body Image & Self Esteem? Discover How Mums Can Make a Difference
Sep 26, 2024