Her Emotions. My Emotions. Because sometimes parenting a teenage girl feels like living in a jungle. One minute she’s laughing in the kitchen, telling you a story for approximately 147 minutes. The next, she’s slamming a door. Then she wants a snack, but...

You’re Not the Only One One of the things I hear again and again from teen girls when I ask what it would be like to share what they’re going through with a friend or someone they trust is: “They won’t understand. They have their own stuff going on.”...

What Is The Happiness Path, Anyway? If you’ve heard me talking about The Happiness Path lately and wondered, “Okay… but what actually IS it?” Fair question. The Happiness Path supports teen girls to feel more confident, connected and resilient. By...

When Injuries Keep Showing Up: Looking Beyond the Physical Why do some teen girl athletes struggle with repeated injuries?  When we talk about injury for teen girl athletes, we usually focus on the physical. A muscle was overworked.The hit jostled the...

The Side of Sports Injury Recovery No One Talks About Recovery is so much more than healing the body.  And for teen girl athletes who love their sport for all it brings to their lives like friendships, confidence, and a sense of identity, recovery feels...

Staying Positive During Injury? Maybe That’s Not the Goal. “How do I stay positive during recovery?” Such a common question I hear from teen girl athletes working through injury, performance anxiety, and even eating disorder recovery. Even when they’re not...

When a teen athlete is working through recovery, it’s not just her sport that ends up on the sidelines. Rest. Rehab. Getting the green light to play again. From the outside, these are the milestones everyone is watching for.  The markers of progress. The signs that things are getting...

One of the most common (and understandable) fears I hear from parents is this: “If she’s feeling overwhelmed, I’m afraid of where that might lead” This fear is especially present when your teen daughter is recovering from something like an eating disorder, an injury, or...

Many teen girls are incredibly good at keeping the peace. When they tell themselves they are Fine. They:Stay in friend groups even when they’re often excluded.Don’t make a fuss when the group chat lights up without them.Quietly...

From the outside, many teen girls look “fine.”They go to school. They clean their room (sometimes). They laugh with friends. They keep going.But inside, a lot of them are carrying far more than they let on.I hear it in my work with teen girls all the time, the things they don’t...