Why is connection & community so important for us as Mums? Why is being around Mums in similar situations so important for our mental health?

3 Insights into why we need to have like minded Mums around us supporting us in our roles as Mums of teen girls

Why is my teenage daughter so angry?

Ever get those feelings that your teen daughter he 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

ANNOUNCEMENT! In this week’s episode, I explain why I’m changing the podcast name from Stop Juggling, Start Living - a podcast for parent carers to Teen Whisperer. Listen to find out more!

I’m Rachel, a qualified holistic health coach and Jing massage therapist. I’m a woman who wants to share my learnings and wisdom from my own journey. Here’s my story and how it led me to the work I do today…

In this week’s episode, I have some exciting news!!! Hands up who wants to meet with other parent carers? Come and join me on the first of our monthly meets at Honister in the heart of the Lake District to try the infinity bridge!

How are you doing this week? How’s your child managing right now? Do you ever feel isolated or on your own as a parent carer? Do you ever feel like no one understands what you are going through?

In this episode, I talk about how we absorb their energy and the normal reaction is to try to ‘fix’ them. What’s important is that it’s ok to feel rubbish and it’s also totally natural.

In this episode, I talk about why connecting with and guiding our children is paramount to working with them. It gives them back control to be in charge of what’s happening for them.

In this episode, I talk about how self-care isn’t selfish and shouldn’t take up too much time or money. If it does and it’s stressing you out, it’s not right for you.

In this episode, I talk about why simple self-help tools help to feed your soul so you can focus on everything else around you.

So how have you done this month of the new year? Have you been able to make a little more space for yourself? And if you haven’t, don’t worry. Don’t have a go at yourself, don’t feel worthless, it’s life as we know it.

This is an emotive episode telling you why I am passionate about working with teen girls and inspiring them to believe in their own self-worth and who they are. So they can feel empowered to say no when they need to.

It's ok to not feel like you can ‘do’ it all, we're not supposed to. It's society that makes us feel hopeless and worthless because we get told we can do it all and succeed. So if we don't manage it we feel like a failure.

I know there wasn’t a podcast on Wednesday and actually, that’s ok. I didn’t belittle myself and I didn’t put myself down. Listen in to find out why I didn’t and how I did it…

Following on from episode 14 I’m talking about the stress bucket and simple ways to start emptying your stress bucket before hitting that heightened state of panic.

I thought I’d do something a little bit different in this episode and discuss why working with our teens and children is like training your dog…

Take a moment to pause and to reconnect with yourself this Christmas by joining me in this simple, short visualisation.

In this week’s episode, I talk about how perfectionism can rear its head around Christmas and is there even such a thing as a ‘perfect’ Christmas?

In this week’s episode, I talk about how our teen girls’ behaviour is a mirror of what’s going on inside as a reaction to stress…

This week I talk about why having a teen with chronic ill health doesn’t mean always putting your needs at the bottom of the pile.