The Teen Years Toolkit For Moms: Parenting Communication Skills to Calm the Chaos

Ever feel like your yelling and past reactions may have permanently damaged your relationship with your teen?If you’ve been lying awake at night replaying moments you regret—words you wish you could take back, reactions that feel too big—you’re not alone. This episode is a lifeline for moms feeling weighed down by guilt, wondering if it’s too late to repair the connection with their teenager.Discover why yelling doesn’t mean you’ve failed—it’s actually rooted in deep care and fearLearn how repair (not perfection) is the most powerful tool for reconnecting with your teen.Get a practical mindset shift to help you pause and choose a calmer response in the heat of the moment.Press play now to learn how you can stop the guilt spiral and start rebuilding trust and connection with your teen—starting today.Take the Communication Style Under Stress quiz now—it only takes a minute!How to Talk About the BIG Stuff With Your TeenNew episodes are released every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6:00 AM ESTBook a free 1:1 coaching consult hereConnect with me at [email protected] Learn more about me at www.coachwithjessica.caThis powerful podcast explores how moms and parents can navigate anxiety, overwhelm, and grief while building resilience, confidence, and emotional intelligence, offering tools for better communication, active listening, and setting healthy boundaries to foster trust, reduce yelling and punishment, de-escalate conflict and escalation, and strengthen relationships with teens through empathy, calm, and lasting harmony.

Are your thoughts about parenting making it harder than it needs to be?This episode dives into the real reason so many moms of teens feel burned out—and it’s not their teenager's behavior. It’s the guilt-ridden, perfectionist thoughts running on repeat that quietly drain your confidence and peace of mind.Learn the 10 most common thoughts that are secretly triggering your stress as a mom of teens.Understand why these beliefs feel true, especially under pressure—but are actually working against you.Get a simple, judgment-free strategy to loosen their grip and reclaim your calm without forcing positive thinking.If you're ready to feel more grounded and confident in your parenting—even when things get messy—hit play and start letting go of the thoughts that aren’t serving you.Take the Communication Style Under Stress quiz now—it only takes a minute!How to Talk About the BIG Stuff With Your TeenNew episodes are released every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6:00 AM ESTBook a free 1:1 coaching consult hereConnect with me at [email protected] Learn more about me at www.coachwithjessica.caThis powerful podcast explores how moms and parents can navigate anxiety, overwhelm, and grief while building resilience, confidence, and emotional intelligence, offering tools for better communication, active listening, and setting healthy boundaries to foster trust, reduce yelling and punishment, de-escalate conflict and escalation, and strengthen relationships with teens through empathy, calm, and lasting harmony.

Would you ever scream at a frightened dog caught in a trap—or would you try to calm it with care and compassion? Then why do we so often speak harshly to ourselves in moments of parenting stress?When parenting your teen gets hard, your nervous system can go into survival mode—snapping, freezing, or shutting down. This episode offers a powerful reframe that helps you understand what’s really going on in those moments and how to respond to yourself with the same compassion you’d offer someone else in pain.Learn how parenting stress impacts your nervous system and why self-criticism makes it worseUnderstand the harmful roots of “love bombing” in relationships—and how to flip it for self-healingDiscover a practical, calming technique rooted in compassion that can help you respond instead of reactPress play now to learn how to use compassion—not criticism—as your most powerful parenting tool when stress hits.Take the Communication Style Under Stress quiz now—it only takes a minute!How to Talk About the BIG Stuff With Your TeenNew episodes are released every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6:00 AM ESTBook a free 1:1 coaching consult hereConnect with me at [email protected] Learn more about me at www.coachwithjessica.caThis powerful podcast explores how moms and parents can navigate anxiety, overwhelm, and grief while building resilience, confidence, and emotional intelligence, offering tools for better communication, active listening, and setting healthy boundaries to foster trust, reduce yelling and punishment, de-escalate conflict and escalation, and strengthen relationships with teens through empathy, calm, and lasting harmony.

Feeling like you didn’t “do enough” this holiday season—or even finish all 12 days of this series? You’re not behind.In this gentle final episode of the 12 Days of Holiday Calm, Jessica invites you to release the pressure to absorb everything perfectly and instead focus on just one calming insight that resonated with you. Whether you were here for all 12 days or popped in halfway through, there’s something worth carrying into the new year.Revisit your favorite calming moment or mindset shift from the series.Learn how emotional “check-ins” can guide your thinking—even long after the holidays.Be reminded that you don’t need to “do it all” to benefit from inner calm and self-compassion.Take a moment to reflect, pick the one tool or insight that served you most—and carry it with you into the new year with calm, clarity, and confidence.Take the Communication Style Under Stress quiz now—it only takes a minute!How to Talk About the BIG Stuff With Your TeenNew episodes are released every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6:00 AM ESTBook a free 1:1 coaching consult hereConnect with me at [email protected] Learn more about me at www.coachwithjessica.caThis powerful podcast explores how moms and parents can navigate anxiety, overwhelm, and grief while building resilience, confidence, and emotional intelligence, offering tools for better communication, active listening, and setting healthy boundaries to foster trust, reduce yelling and punishment, de-escalate conflict and escalation, and strengthen relationships with teens through empathy, calm, and lasting harmony.

Do you ever find yourself thinking, “I love my teen, but I really don’t enjoy being around them right now”—and then instantly feel like a terrible mom for it?You’re not alone—and more importantly, you’re not a bad parent. In this episode of Teen Years Toolkit for Moms, we dig into the silent guilt many moms carry when they don’t always like their teenagers, even though they love them deeply. If you’ve ever wrestled with this emotional tension, this episode offers the clarity and relief you’ve been looking for.Learn why disliking certain moments with your teen doesn’t make you a bad mom—it makes you human.Understand how guilt and self-blame are shaped more by your thoughts than by your teen’s behavior.Discover a powerful mindset shift that helps you accept both your own humanness and your teen’s—without the guilt spiral.Listen now to finally stop beating yourself up for being a human mom and start building more compassion for both you and your teen—even during the tough moments.Take the Communication Style Under Stress quiz now—it only takes a minute!How to Talk About the BIG Stuff With Your TeenNew episodes are released every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6:00 AM ESTBook a free 1:1 coaching consult hereConnect with me at [email protected] Learn more about me at www.coachwithjessica.caThis powerful podcast explores how moms and parents can navigate anxiety, overwhelm, and grief while building resilience, confidence, and emotional intelligence, offering tools for better communication, active listening, and setting healthy boundaries to foster trust, reduce yelling and punishment, de-escalate conflict and escalation, and strengthen relationships with teens through empathy, calm, and lasting harmony.