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Evan Transue started suffering with panic attacks at the age of 5. He had no family history of trauma, and due to his seemingly great life, his panic attacks went misdiagnosed for over 10 years. During this time, he developed other mental health conditions, and eventually turned to substances to numb the pain. Eventually he was diagnosed with panic disorder, and had an aha moment that changed his life.We talk about what panic attacks feel like, how they can lead to depression, and how parents can help support teenagers as they learn to deal with them. Evan now hasn't had a panic attack in 10 years.Who is Evan Transue? Evan is the host of The Health Detective Podcast and owner of Bucks County Light Therapy and Functional Medicine Center. He graduated from Functional Diagnostic Nutrition (FDN) in 2017. Prior to finding FDN he and his mother had suffered with a variety of health challenges for over a decade. The FDN system transformed his and his mom's lives so profoundly that all of his work is now centered around spreading its teachings. Evan speaks professionally to middle and high school students about mental health challenges and to date has spoken to 50,000 students.More teenage parenting from Helen Wills Helen Wills Counselling and Parent Coaching Actually Mummy parenting teens blog Helen on InstagramThank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email helen@actuallymummy.co.uk.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy pagePlease note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Episode produced by Michael J Cunningham

Parents often worry about the teenage years. The term 'threenager' is frequently used to describe the toddler tantrums that leave parents tearing their hair out. I used it myself, with an eyeroll and a wry smile, but now that I've been through the teenage years I'm apologetic about that. I think it's patronising, and it doesn't help our relationships with our teens. Katia Vlachos has experienced this from the teen point of view, and it took her until adulthood to realise that her 'good girl' behaviour wasn't serving her. She talks to me about how easy it is to raise a people-pleasing teenager (even when we think we're on the receiving end of full-scale rebellion), and why it's not such a good thing to have a teenager who sticks to the rules. Who is Katia Vlachos?Katia Vlachos is a coach and author of a new book called Uncaged. Raised in a traditional Greek family, Katia's early years were spent trying to please others as the perfect daughter and student, but she often found ways to embrace her rebellious spirit - including sneaking out at night and driving off into the sunset on the back of her boyfriend's Harley Davidson. As she grew up, Katia became more weighed down by this 'good girl' persona she'd be trying to live up to until one day, when she was in her 40s, she faced the reality that the life she was living had been designed to make other people happy and not herself.After a series of life-altering events – including the death of her beloved father and the end of her 17-year marriage – Katia confronts how being obsessed with being seen as 'good' has affected her life decisions and sets out on a path of self-discovery and reinvention. Unpicking how she had been conditioned since childhood to chase societal approval and put the needs and desires of others above her own, Katia used her experiences to write a book about her story and inspire other women who are fed up of feeling guilty for wanting more. Katia's book - Uncaged: A Good Girl's journey to reinvention Katia on Instagram Katia on LinkedIn KatiaVlachos.com How to Fail podcastMore teenage parenting from Helen Wills Helen Wills Counselling and Parent Coaching Actually Mummy parenting teens blog Helen on InstagramThank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email helen@actuallymummy.co.uk.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy pagePlease note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Episode produced by Michael J Cunningham

Today's guest is content creator and copywriter Tom Pinks, who is The number of teenagers saying they don't drink alcohol is 39%.Tom talks about how he was bullied at secondary school before eventually finding a way to take control and stand up for himself. He was also dealing with his mum's diagnosis of cancer and says that it could have been quite a dark time had it not been for the resilience that kicked in as he learned to take care of his emotions.He also talks about feeling shy when he started university - have a listen to Tom's top tip for making friends in a new environment! Tom says this is when he started using alcohol to hide his shyness and pretend to be more extroverted than he was. Whilst he says it didn't feel like a problem in the moment, he struggled to keep up with the drinking of Freshers and eventually realised it was too much.Tom told me how he eventually cut down on drinking and became isolated as he distanced himself from friends who were drinkers. He was diagnosed with depression and anxiety and had to take time out to address it. He tells us how difficult that experience was, and what help is available now to young people going through similar, from free counselling to support of communities online. Tom's experience of being sober since then is fascinating to listen to - from being fully alive at the music gigs he loved, to the experience of dating without alcohol.Who is Tom Pinks? Tom is a mental health professional, writer and podcaster for The Mix, the UK's leading digital support service for under 25's. A former teacher, Tom now spends his time ensuring as many teens have the resources they need to thrive in life. Whether this be written guides on navigating relationships, identity, and general wellbeing, or podcasts with experts on how to manage and improve mental health.Tom has been living sober for almost 18 months, and is an advocate for clean living after witnessing the many benefits this brought into other parts of his life. He now practices transcendental meditation daily, and puts his love and energy into hosting events across London designed to help young people make new friends.Useful links: The Highly Sensitive Person (affiliate link) The Mix - essential support for under 25s, including free counselling Tom's blog about sober datingMore teenage parenting from Helen Wills Helen Wills Counselling and Parent Coaching Actually Mummy parenting teens blog Helen on InstagramThank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email helen@actuallymummy.co.uk.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy pagePlease note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Episode produced by Michael J Cunningham

My guest today has written a book about how much we underestimate teenage girls, and why we'd do well as parents to listen more to what they have to say. Chelsey Goodan has interviewed dozens of teenage girls about what's going on in their lives, and what they need from adults in order to thrive. We talk about perfectionism and self-esteem, shame around sexuality, and the best way to get teenagers to develop a healthy relationship with their phones and social media – spoiler alert, it doesn't involve banning apps and confiscating their phones.Chelsey talks about her own experience of being a people-pleaser as a teenager. Always wanting to be the 'good girl', Chelsey didn't realise how much this tendency was hurting her. She goes on to tell us how she became a 'recovering perfectionist' and gives some ideas to support mothers who have carried perfectionism into their parenting journey.She also tells me that trying to protect our girls can backfire by giving them a victim mentality. Instead, she says, we need to empower teenage girls to trust their own inner voices, know what they need, and have agency over their own safety and directions. She answers the question "is social media dangerous" and has an interesting take on how we can introduce our teenagers to smartphones. Chelsey has written a great book about how what teenage girls are really feeling and how judged they often feel. It's a brilliant explanation of what's going on for our daughters and how we can support them more constructively to be the best they can be emotionally. You can find Chelsey's book here: Underestimated: The wisdom and power of teenage girls (affiliate link) Chelsey's website Chelsey on InstagramMore teenage parenting from Helen Wills Helen Wills Counselling and Parent Coaching Actually Mummy parenting teens blog Helen on InstagramThank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email helen@actuallymummy.co.uk.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy pagePlease note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Episode produced by Michael J Cunningham

TW: Self-harmAd: This episode is sponsored by training provider Flourish, and my guest today is an expert in supporting teenagers with the emotional challenges that often come with adolescence. Charlotte Gordon is a nationally recognised youth worker and trainer who has deep expertise in addressing anxiety, depression and distress, and empowers those who work with teenagers to have the practical life skills they need to help young people develop emotional resilience and well-being. Her approaches are especially effective in supporting neurodiverse young people.As a single mother, Charlotte founded KIP Education to reach the young people who often fall through the cracks in traditional educational settings. Her programmes aim to cultivate self-awareness, mindfulness, critical thinking, communication skills and social empathy, empowering young people to manage stress and develop a strong sense of social consciousness and human values.She talks to us about a parenting course that offers practical advice and the opportunity to improve our knowledge around mental health, wellbeing and safety. The Flourish Empowered parenting course bundle covers topics such as vaping, gang violence and supporting LGBTQIA+ children. Listeners can get a 15% discount on the course by using code KICKS15 at checkout. USEFUL LINKS Flourish Empowered Parenting Course Bundle - used code KICKS15 Flourish's Empowered Parenting courses bundle offers practical advice and the chance to test and improve your knowledge, helping you address challenges around mental health, wellbeing and safety. It also covers specialist topics such as vaping, gang violence and supporting LGBTQIA+ children. Written by child development and education specialists, these courses empower you to approach modern parenting with confidence. Each course lasts around 30 minutes and can be taken in your own time, with our without your child. Find out more about Charlotte at Kip Education. More teenage parenting from Helen Wills Helen Wills Counselling and Parent Coaching Actually Mummy parenting teens blog Helen on InstagramThank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email helen@actuallymummy.co.uk.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy pagePlease note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Episode produced by Michael J Cunningham

*TW - Suicide and self harm This week's guest is the parent of a 17-year-old transgender boy. She talks about how it felt to support her son as they came to the realisation that their assigned gender did not match who they knew themselves to be. She describes how difficult it was for her son despite her family's acceptance and support of his decision, compared to other teenagers she knows of who have not been supported by their families. I ask her why she thinks some parents don't accept their children's LGBTQIA+ feelings. Heidi told me the hardest part of her son's transgender journey was their decision to change their name. She says she went through a period of mourning for the daughter she gave birth to. We talk about how difficult it can be as parents to allow our children to determine for themselves who they're going to be, without trying to influence them. She gives some insight into what age she thinks is best for a teenager to undertake surgical transition, the controversy around puberty blockers and how normal gender and sexuality changes are to our own teenagers' generation.Heidi also talks about her own teenagers years growing up with undiagnosed bipolar, and how easy it was to miss amongst all the teenage hormones. Who is Heidi L Gross? Heidi published her first personal and heartfelt work, Embracing Love: A Parent's Guide to Nurturing and Celebrating LGBTQ+ Identity. Inspired by her journey as the mother of a transgender son, the book aims to support parents who are navigating similar experiences, offering them insight, compassion, and guidance. More from Heidi Embracing Love: A parent's guide to nurturing and celebrating your child's LGBTQ+ identity - https://amzn.to/42nGW5EAlso listen to What your transgender teen wants you to know Overcoming self-harm Mental health, sexuality and self-harm recoveryMore teenage parenting from Helen Wills Helen Wills Counselling and Parent Coaching Actually Mummy parenting teens blog Helen on InstagramThank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email helen@actuallymummy.co.uk.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy page Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Episode produced by Michael J Cunningham

It's a question I see asked a lot. There's a whole Facebook group dedicated to discussing the issues parents have when their children are preparing to leave home for university, and the questions come in cycles. Right now, it's UCAS forms and university choices, as the deadline for applications looms. In a couple of months it will be questions about A-Level revision and exam dates, and then will come the angst - in rafts - over teenagers whose parents don't think they're ready. (I have a sneaking suspicion it's the parents who aren't ready most of the time, not the kids.My guest in this episode speaks to this parental fear as a parent herself, and as a psychologist who supports families of children and teenagers with type 1 diabetes. Professor Deborah Christie talks about how any disability makes it more difficult to leave home, especially for the often chaotic lifestyle of university. With data* suggesting that over a third of young adults have a long-term physical or mental health condition, disability or illness, could this be something your listeners might be interested in? Deborah offers reassurance and tips for success, whatever your fears for your child as they gain independence and have to look after themselves. * Research commissioned to mark the integration of Abbott's FreeStyle Libre 2 Plus sensor withInsulet's Omnipod® 5 Automated Insulin Delivery System.More for parents of teenagers preparing for university Don't fear the empty nest (podcast) 10 Tips for coping with empty nest syndrome (read) Being diagnosed with diabetes as a teenager (podcast) How to keep your teen safe at university (read) 60 Gifts for university students (list)Who is Deborah Christie? Deborah Christie is a professor of paediatric and adolescent psychology at University College London NHS Foundation Trust and Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust. She is an internationally respected academic and award-winning clinician; with an outstanding record of peer-reviewed publications, teaching and leadership with over 200 peer reviewed papers and chapters and a bestselling book, Psychosocial Aspects of Diabetes in Children, Adolescents and Families. She co-authored the expert reports on Psychosocial Issues of infection and the Impact of bereavement for the UK government Infected Blood Inquiry.Who is Helen?Helen wills is a counsellor, a parent coach, and a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy pagePlease note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Episode produced by Michael J Cunningham.

Welcome to series 9 of the Teenage Kicks podcast, and a brand new set of brave conversations with people who had something difficult to go through in their teenage years. This episode features Jon Wilson Cooper, who - through his career choice as a counsellor - has explored his own relationship with his mental health at length, including how he feels about having grown up with a sibling with disabilities. We discuss everything from the embarrassment of being seen in public with his deaf brother, who had behavioural difficulties as a result of his disability, the jealousy of the attention given to his brother, and the shame of feeling this way. Jon says there's a difference between shame and guilt, and the challenge for our teenagers - and for us as their parents - is to reject the shame (which is paralysing) whilst managing the guilt effectively. Who is Jon Wilson Cooper?Jon is a qualified psychotherapist, trainer, and organisational consultant with over 38 years' experience of helping people with their mental health. He is the Founder and Director of The Albany Centre for personal and professional development, which is a counselling training institute and therapy. He also runs Mosaic Counselling Services CIC (a low-cost counselling service) in St Albans, Hertfordshire. He has worked in the UK, America, and India in a variety of settings with a wide range of clients, including those with addiction issues, mental health problems and histories of personal trauma. Jon has a special interest in helping individuals raise awareness of their blocks to emotional well-being and making positive life choices.Jon is also a TEDx speaker whose talk on why people hate was chosen as one of the top TEDx talks of 2024. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su-0oL1QdHMJon welcomes connection - you can find him here: Connect on LinkedIn The Albany Centre Facebook Follow the Albany Centre on FacebookMore teenage parenting from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a counsellor, a parent coach, and a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens.Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email helen@actuallymummy.co.uk.You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy pagePlease note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Episode produced by Michael J Cunningham.

06 El iniciado exiliado del 98 (0601) Joan Fuster, otro de los más reconocidos escritores valencianos, decía sobre Blasco Ibáñez: (0602) “A Blasco le ocurrió que, por una circunstancia cronológica clara, no fue ni carne ni pescado: ni del siglo XIX ni del siglo XX. Su mismo naturalismo resultaba «anacrónico»: tardío respecto de doña Emilia Pardo-Bazán, por ejemplo, y demodé cuando Azorín, Valle-Inclán y Baroja ganaban terreno…” (0603) Y es que prácticamente todos los escritores de la llamada generación del 98 se llevaron mal con Blasco y su nombre no está ligado a la generación que por méritos y año de nacimiento le correspondería. En “Blasco Ibáñez i la Generació del 98” de Francisco Fuster podemos leer: (0604) “Blasco tenía tres años menos que Miguel de Unamuno, dos menos que Ángel Ganivet, uno menos que Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, cinco más que Pío Baroja, seis más que Azorín, siete más que Ramiro de Maeztu y ocho más que Antonio Machado. Fue, por lo tanto, coetáneo de los autores citados, a la mayoría de los cuales, además, conoció personalmente…” “…a la altura de 1905, Blasco Ibáñez era, después de Galdós, «el novelista que más vendía en España, alcanzando tiradas que, como hemos visto, eran superiores a los 15.000 ejemplares»…” (0605) El público se casaba con Blasco pero la crítica y los literatos coetáneos no lo podían ni ver. [0606] “Por desgracia para él, y a pesar del incontestable de su triunfo comercial, sus novelas fueron tan bien recibidas por el público, como despreciadas por la crítica, que puso objeciones a su estilo, que juzgó de precipitado o poco elaborado, e incluso al uso de un castellano que, al estar influido por su bilingüismo, también fue tildado de incorrecto. En el caso concreto de su relación con el 98, la diferencia entre Blasco y los miembros canónicos de esa generación es que fueron estos los que, por diferentes razones, le lanzaron ataques personales o, en el mejor de los casos, mantuvieron con él una relación cordial que, sin embargo, nunca llegó al grado de la amistad. Por su parte, y ante las diferentes muestras de desconsideración que recibió de todos ellos, Blasco optó, casi siempre, por un elegante silencio…” 0607 Uno de sus archienemigos fue Pio Baroja. Coincidieron en un restaurante en París en 1913 como ya les contamos en el capítulo 4: 0608 “Diez años más tarde me aseguraba [Blasco Ibáñez] en París, en el café la Closerie des Lilas: «Que digan que yo soy un autor bueno o malo, me tiene sin cuidado. Lo que es evidente es que yo soy el escritor mundial que gana más dinero de la época»” 0609 Tanto es así que una vez fallecido Blasco un grupo de artistas valencianos envió un telegrama a Valle-Inclán en el cual se lo acusaba de ser una «víbora» que había pretendido envenenar la obra blasquista. Aquel 30 de enero de 1928 el diario Pueblo incluía también, además del citado telegrama, un durísimo artículo, elocuentemente titulado «Gritos de alcantarilla», en el cual tanto Baroja como Valle-Inclán eran atacados e insultados por la redacción del periódico, dolida por la recientísima muerte de quien lo había fundado el 1894: (0610 )“El señor Baroja, hipocondríaco panadero que cuando deja la tahona escribe sus libros, con el mismo desgaire que si se tratara de confeccionar un pan de Viena o una «pataqueta de huertas, ha hecho objeto a Valencia y a sus hombres, en su ya larga existencia de escritor, de insultos y vituperios a granel. Ora en su «Juventud Egolatría», bien en su «Mundo es Ansí», en «Silvestre Paradox» o en «Horas solitarias», las frases de desprecio y de burla a nuestra tierra se suceden en una página y en otra. A este hombre sombrío, la idea de que la raza nórdica es superior y de que los levantinos somos unos «chimpancés», se le ha subido a la cabeza. Profundamente democrático, hasta anarquista en algunos libros («Aurora Roja»), tiene enérgico empeño en sentirse superior y emparentarse con antepasados que en el cuaternario conocían la teoría de la relatividad, vertían de «frac» y se reunían en sus «clubs a la sombra de los grandes árboles». En cambio el miserable «chimpancé» levantino, cuando todo el centro de Europa era una selva abrupta y el hombre andaba a cuatro pies, ya había creado y destruido la civilización crètense, la egipcia, la babilónica, la griega, y había producido a Pericles, a Demóstenes, a Platón, a Aristóteles, a Praxiteles y a Sócrates. En cuanto al señor Valle Inclán, que piadosamente pone en duda la muerte de Blasco, por creerla un «bluf» más, le vemos de poco tiempo a esta parte muy neoyorquizado, muy siglo «Ollywood», en materia de llamar la atención. Si el «black-botón», el «charlestón» y todas esas danzas modernas necesitaran un digno representante en el mundo de las letras, elegirían sin duda a Valle Inclán. Sería de ver a este nuevo «barba de estopa», con su brazo hueco (lo del segundo «manco ilustre", decididamente ofende a los mancos auténticos y a la gloria), su voz campanuda y su aspecto de «covachuolista», dislocando las piernas y «esperpenteando» posturas. A nosotros no nos molestan las críticas en esta hora de dolor. Prueban además la fortaleza de corazón de los que reaccionan contra la estupidez de miles y miles de españoles y extranjeros que lloran la muerte del gran valenciano. Baroja y Valle Inclán, con su desenfado falsamente juvenil (no es joven quien quiere, sino quién puede) ponen una fea nota «clownesca» en medio del dolor general. Ellos no se enteran, по han querido enterarse que nosotros lloramos a don Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, al creador de Valencia, hecha a su imagen y semejanza al Gran Capitán de los ejércitos republicanos, al que en horas de angustia mientras esos «principes» de la escala zoológica de ambolaban su hipocondría, uno insultando desde las butacas de un teatro a una ilustre mujer y otro dando opiniones en revistas deportivas -abandonó su retiro de paz para poner su pluma y su corazón al servicio de una gran causa.” 0611 Francisco Fuster nos cuenta una de las etapas donde Blasco si mantuvo unos lazos amistosos con grandes figuras de la literatura durante su estancia en París en 1924: 0612 “En la capital francesa Blasco se encontró con un nutrido grupo de paisanos y viejos conocidos suyos, la mayoría de ellos de tendencia republicana. Allí estaban, además de Unamuno, los abogados y políticos Santiago Alba i Eduardo Ortega y Gasset, o los periodistas Carlos Esplá i Francisco Madrid, entre otros exiliados que acostumbraban a reunirse en el café de la Rotonde, en pleno Barrio Latino, donde mantenían una tertulia que se convirtió en una «especie de cuartel general de la resistencia a la dictadura, donde se reúnen los españoles desterrados y particularmente el Comité Revolucionario de París, calificación solemne atribuida por Primo de Rivera»” 0613 Blasco no convencía a su generación literaria pero entusiasmaba a un público ávido de emociones y encima, tal como sostiene Dolores Thion Soriano-Mollá en “Novelas con buena estrella: las traducciones de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez en Francia” parece que la buena estrella sonreía a Blasco: 0614 “…la novela del realismo y del naturalismo españoles en Francia entre 1880 y 1916, concluíamos que cuanti­tativamente las obras traducidas a la lengua francesa son relativamente pocas, con solo una veintena de títulos, frente a los centenares de volúmenes edita­dos en aquellos treinta y seis años.” “…el autor mejor representado en lengua francesa entre 1880 y 1914 fuese Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.” [0615] El propio Blasco nos cuenta como fueron sus primeros intentos de publicación en Francia: [0616] “Tuvieron que pasar ocho años para que Terres maudites (La barraca), que es una obra muy fuerte y hermosa, agotara su primera tirada de 2.500 ejemplares, y Calmann Lévy [importante editor francés] me dijo una vez: "Si pensara como un hombre de negocios, no imprimiría más obras de Blasco. Los libros que no se venden no son cosa de librerías.” (0617) ¿Y qué pasó para que el autor valenciano empezase a vender libros como churros en Francia? Sencillamente, un libro suyo cayó en las manos de George Hérelle, profesor del Liceo de Bayona y célebre traductor, quien se enamoró de la obra a primera vista. Hérelle insistió en comunicarse con Blasco, ya que este no respondió a sus primeras cartas. Hérelle fue un gran baluarte para la introducción del novelista en la pren­sa francesa, como plataforma de difusión de sus traducciones y de publicidad indirecta a través de las reseñas y críticas, las cuales fueron apareciendo en Le Temps y en Le Siécle, entre otras. Pero una vez franqueadas las primeras puer­tas con la salida de La barraca, las demás cabeceras fueron poco a poco aten­diendo las siguientes traducciones. Nos encontramos ante un caso interesante de subordinación del autor al traductor, y no únicamente por un simple retoricismo o por una falta de interés. A pesar del limitado conocimiento de francés que tenía Blasco en aquel entonces, le confesó a Hérelle que valoraba enormemente las brillantes versiones de su obra, argumentando que Hérelle tenía más renombre como traductor que él como autor. Después de haber ajustado, entre otras cosas, los primeros capítulos en la versión francesa de La barraca, el autor, lleno de entusiasmo, comunicaba lo siguiente a su traductor: (0618) “La barraca gana más y resulta mejor que en el original, lo que pocas veces se ve en las obras traducidas. Todas las modificaciones que usted marca en su carta y que he compulsado en el original de la traducción, parecen acertadísimas. Es usted un artista, más aún que un traductor, y sabe dar el golpe maestro que embellece la obra.” 0619 Así empezó a manar dinero del sifón francés, y Blasco siempre conservó ese afán por el dinero fácil. La profesora de Traducción Especializada de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla Inmaculada Serón descubrió en 2010 como tras el seudónimo R. Martínez Lafuente se escondía el mismísimo Blasco Ibáñez y, en menor medida, Fernando Llorca Die, yerno del novelista y socio, junto con Francisco Sempere Masiá de su editorial Prometeo. Leíamos la noticia en varios medios, curiosamente con el 33 como bandera: (0620) “El escritor valenciano Vicente Blasco Ibáñez creó un pseudónimo bajo el cual firmó traducciones al español de obras de William Shakespeare que fueron “copiadas” de otras adaptaciones realizadas anteriormente, según desvela en El País la profesora de Traducción Especializada de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla Inmaculada Serón. …en esas cartas, en las que el autor, político y periodista valenciano se refiere al plan de traducción: “Hay que ver lo que representa dar todo Shakespeare en tan poco precio y con obras desconocidas en su mayoría. Yo, tomando de unas ediciones y otras (sobre todo valiéndome de una edición antigua), tengo 33 dramas en español corregidos. Solo habrá que traducir tres a última hora, en el último tomo”, manifestaba Blasco.” (0621) Para el que no lo sepa este número representa la edad de la Maestría en la Iniciación de Jesús (su muerte, resurrección y ascensión), aparte de otros detalles esotéricos. El "33" simboliza el grado alto de consciencia espiritual por parte del ser humano”. Cuando hablamos de masones, y Blasco lo era, el 33 es el número de los maestros iniciados, el más alto grado dentro de la masonería. El 33 no se puede descomponer en una sola cifra ya que pertenece al grupo de los números maestros. En numerología están los números básicos que van del 1 hasta el 9 y luego números especiales que no se pueden reducir a una sola cifra, números llamados “maestros” 11, 22, 33. Si reducimos el 11 a un único dígito obtenemos el 2 (11=1+1=2) con lo que conseguimos es la perfecta combinación de la mayor energía masculina que se concentra en el 1 (Zeus) con la mayor energía femenina que se encuentra en el dos (Hera). Dicha unión supone que la energía que emana el once supera a cualquier otra numeración pese a que las energías del 1 y del 2 son totalmente opuestas. El número maestro 33 combina los poderes más competentes de expresión y realización (la del número 3) con el maestro y el tutor por excelencia, el 6. El rosario islámico tiene 33 cuentas. En la mitología hindú el 33 expresa perfección. Una de las cifras preferidas de todo masón que se precie y que desea lucir dentro de su estrella de seis puntas. Su verdadera esencia constituye la última etapa en la evolución espiritual, el Maestro de maestros. El 33 es el número maestro que en su perfección no se puede transformar en un 6. Tenemos un 6 infértil, un 6 egoista, un 6 que no es humano sino inhumano, del demonio del ego. Ese 33 representa plenamente a Blasco Ibáñez, en su maestría, en su autoidolatria, en su soberbia que lo impulsaba a ganar más y más dinero. 0622 El periodista José María Carretero Novillo más conocido como “el caballero audaz” nos describe en el libro que dedicó a Blasco como muchas de sus obras recordarían a otras anteriores. (Video Berlanga parte 2 50:07 a 50:18 Zola.mp4) 0623 “Yo le sabía en París amargado, contrariado. Los franceses no le conocían. El que más sabe de él, le cree un mediano imitador de Zola, cuya forma plagia: un discípulo de esos que ponen en ridículo al maestro. Allí nadie ignora que firmó como suyas las traducciones de Michelet, que en- tró a saco en «Salambó» para escribir su «Sónnica»; en Picabea para su «Catedral»; en «El Toreo», de Abreu, para su «Sangre y Arena», y en «Brujas la muerta» para «La Maja desnuda».” (0624) El reportero Enrique González Fiol (El Bachiller Corchuelo) a principios del año 1911 entrevistó a Blasco y allí podíamos escuchar en boca del propio escritor sobre su amor al dinero: (0625) “El artista debe aspirar á enriquecerse. Cuanto más dinero posea, con más comodidad puede laborar, mayor cultura podrá adquirir, mayores facilidades hallará para buscar impresiones. No hay nada que atrofie tanto la imaginación y aun la retina, como la vida sedentaria, cual es morar siempre en una misma localidad. El artista y particularmente el escritor, debe cambiar frecuentemente de horizontes físicos y sociales. De este modo, impresiones y sensaciones que cuando se permanece en un sitio, no llegan á percibirse, durante la ausencia parece como que se revelan y adquieren relieve y colorido, y al regresar, lo que dejamos tiene algo de novedad é impresiona mejor. Y el viajar cuesta mucho dinero…” (aqui hay dos videos de aquel partido “Suzanne Lenglen vs Helen Wills - 1926 Cannes, France.mp4” y “Suzanne Lenglen, Helen Wills at the French Tennis Tournament in 1926.mp4”) (0626) Nos cuentan otra anécdota pecuniaria sobre Blasco en un texto recogido en la web casa museo Blasco Ibáñez titulado «el partido del siglo»: (0627) “Uno de los retratos más amenos e interesantes de la existencia y las relaciones personales de Blasco Ibáñez durante sus años en la Costa Azul, es el que incorporó Josep Pla en su famosa colección de semblanzas Homenots. A través de él, el lector puede seguir los pasos de Blasco por ambientes bien distintos a los que alimentaron, por ejemplo, la imaginación creadora plasmada en sus novelas y cuentos valencianos. El mismo Pla verificaría de primera mano cómo el éxito y, en consecuencia, la bonanza económica habían contribuido decisivamente en los nuevos hábitos diarios del novelista, así como influyeron en la orientación de su literatura. Y fue también Pla quien refirió una anécdota que ponía de manifiesto la popularidad internacional del autor valenciano: Estaban a punto de empezar en Cannes los partidos internacionales de tenis de la Copa Davis. En el curso de la comida Blasco se sacó un telegrama del bolsillo. Era un telegrama de un sindicato de diarios americanos que ofrecía al autor de La barraca setecientos dólares por cada telegrama que tuviera a bien enviarlos sobre los partidos del concurso que señalábamos. ¿Aceptaría Blasco un ofrecimiento que, de forma puntual, le iba a transformar en comentarista deportivo? Teniendo en cuenta que el novelista confesó no tener idea alguna del citado deporte, tanto Plá como los ilustres comensales que le acompañaban a la mesa en el Café de París, quedaron extrañados por el cariz de su respuesta: «La proposición se tiene que aceptar aunque solo sea por cortesía. Haré los telegramas». Sobre tal escrito o escritos y su autoría Josep Pla arrojó una sombra de duda, al decir: «Blasco no hizo los telegramas, pero los hizo hacer a otro, los firmó y los cobró. Lo único desagradable es que tuvo que ir a Cannes y asistir a los partidos».” 0628 Blasco Ibáñez murió rodeado de lujos en un entorno de lujo. Siempre apreció el dinero como podemos leer en un breve artículo de 1916 que abrió la sección ¿Cómo y cuándo ganó usted su primera peseta? de la revista madrileña La Semana: 0629 “Mi primera peseta fué doble y me la dió la Iglesia. Para los que conocen mis ideas esto exige una pronta explicación. Tenía yo nueve años, estaba en un colegio de Valencia. El maestro de música había formado un coro con los alumnos de mejor voz, y entre ellos figuraba como tenor el que esto escribe… …Muchos años después, al leer en Aristófanes otros autores griegos la descripción de las Tesmóforias, fiestas en honor de las diosas, a las que sólo asistían las mujeres, me he acordado del mes de María en la parroquia de San Bartolomé. Pero el diablo, envidioso de los ángeles que cantaban en las alturas, rondaba en torno de ellos, sugeriéndoles las más perversas intenciones. …Empezábamos a perder el recuerdo de estas nueve tardes de diversión, cuando el maestro de música nos hizo comparecer ante una mesa adornada con una pequeña columna de monedas blancas... Y empezó el reparto: dos pesetas por cantor. Salimos a menos de real por función; la Iglesia no se corría mucho al retribuir loores María. Pero nosotros quedamos estupefactos ante la inesperada evidencia de que nuestras gargantas valían dinero…(poner video Belcebú.mp4) En Carnaval me disfrazaba de demonio, alquilando en una ropería el vestido más costoso; en cada estación exigía nuevos trajes, ante el menor intento de resistencia, exclamaba amargamente: «Y las dos pesetas?»…” (069c Blasco demonio Benlliure desde Italia.jpg)(video Moloch, from Calabria (1914).mp4) (0630) José Jerique corresponsal de Le Figaro escribe “Desde Montecarlo: una visita a Blasco Ibáñez”: (0631) “—Realmente, Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis (0631a)—dice el maestro— (0631b) es uno de mis mejores éxitos. “…Vendí los derechos de traducción a una de las casas editoriales más reputadas de Nueva York. Recibí dos ejemplares de la traducción, con el título The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, hermosa edición, elegantemente impresa y encuadernada, a dos dólares ejemplar. Pasaron dos meses y un día recibí un fajo enorme de cartas de los Estados Unidos, de misses, que pedían mi retrato y me preguntaban si yo era yo.” “…En octubre habían salido veinte ediciones, y desde entonces la venta es de 20 o 30 mil ejemplares por mes. Los agentes literarios y los editores envidiosos del mío se encargan de hacerme saber la marcha vertiginosa del libro. Hoy van vendidos más de doscientos mil ejemplares, y muchos me dicen que llegará a trescientos mil. ¡A dos dólares! Mi éxito es fulminante, si se quiere brutal, que, como ves, me tiene aturdido…” (0631c) “—¿Y el éxito pecuniario? (0631d) —Es lo amargo. Mis anteriores novelas las cedí en un 15 por 100 cada ejemplar. En esta me dieron mil dólares por los derechos. No ha sido buen negocio. De haber hecho como con las anteriores, el 15 por 100 representaría una fortuna: trescientas mil pesetas. Siempre el dinero de la literatura parece embrujado. Cuando se le espera no viene, y cuando viene inesperadamente, tuerce el camino y va al bolsillo de otro. No puedo, sin embargo, quejarme, porque mis editores son unos caballeros. Hace pocos días recibí un cable que empezaba así: «Dígnese aceptar, como compensación, el regalo de…» Hay que advertir que yo no me había quejado. ¿Y la forma del envío? ¡Unos caballeros! (0631e) —Y ¿cuánto? Blasco Ibáñez hace un gesto. Y añade: (0631f) —Eso solo puede interesarme a mí, y estoy satisfecho. Además, si los Cuatro jinetes siguen galopando por todos los Estados Unidos espero que lleguen otros cables como este.” (0632) Vicente Molina Foix nos habla de su negro de Cuenca en el articulo “Blasco Ibáñez, entre Galdós y Pla”: (0633)“Comparado por tanto con Azorín, con Valle-Inclán o Unamuno, Blasco Ibáñez no tenía acomodo en aquel parnaso de grandes artífices de la lengua. Pero Blasco era consciente de tal cortapisa, “la carcoma de su vida”. Y como en Madrid, si creemos el relato de Josep Plá, al valenciano se le tomaba por “un escritor basto”, en la última década de su vida, ya multimillonario, Blasco tuvo albergado full time en su lujosa villa de Mentón, junto a los mecánicos de sus grandes coches, las gobernantas y los cocineros de más postín, a un ex seminarista de Cuenca en calidad de secretario perpetuo. O más que eso. Según Plá, a Blasco le indignaba que a Pío Baroja, por citar a un rival de escritura no muy depurada, sus colegas le perdonasen “las más grandes extorsiones al espíritu de la lengua”, mientras él se veía obligado a demostrar a diario que era un escritor “situado dentro del diccionario y de la Gramática de la Academia, que sabía que el verbo haber se escribe con h”. De ahí la contratación del mortecino pero escrupuloso corrector, “que se encargaba del pluscuamperfecto” (Plá dixit) en cada una de las páginas de cada una de sus numerosas novelas de los últimos años, más impecables gramatical y sintácticamente pero “hervidas y evaporadas” después de pasar por las manos conquenses.” (0634) En honor a la verdad los últimos años del escritor fueron años de enfermedad como podemos leer en la revista número 2 de estudios sobre Blasco Ibáñez: (0635) “Esto es, más allá de la gloria y la bonanza económica, en el ánimo del escritor se alojaba una tristeza inconfesable que, en primera instancia, cabría atribuir a unos problemas de salud. Recordemos que en 1907 Blasco acude al balneario de Vichy para probar los efectos benéficos de sus aguas, atendiendo a las recomendaciones de su médico sobre una posible dolencia hepática. Si por aquel entonces su estancia en dicha estación termal sería la primera etapa de un largo viaje hasta Constantinopla, cuyo itinerario quedó plasmado en el libro Oriente (1907), un año después escribe desde la misma ciudad francesa informando a su esposa del tratamiento que está recibiendo para afrontar su diabetes. Se trataba de una dolencia que le afectó física y psicológicamente, determinando sus costumbres y aficiones. En principio, tuvo que refrenar su apetito y limitar su dependencia del tabaco. Hacia 1914 el seguimiento de la dieta empezó a dar sus resultados. Sin embargo, la enfermedad se le recrudeció en 1916, siendo uno de los motivos por los que eligió la Costa Azul como futuro lugar de residencia. Ahora bien, la evolución progresiva de la diabetes le produjo una hemorragia en su ojo derecho cuyos efectos no logró mitigar una operación de retina. Así, en su correspondencia privada de 1927, se refleja el impacto que los problemas oculares estaban dejando en su misma forma de trabajar. Condicionado por la salud y con signos evidentes de vejez prematura, el escritor necesita contar con el apoyo de un secretario al que le dicta sus invenciones sin poder controlar su innata facundia.” (0636) Nosotros, desde Buscadores de la verdad, estamos realizando este trabajo de investigación de forma totalmente altruista. No pretendemos arruinarle a nadie su reputación ni mucho menos difamar, pero es que el alma de las personas a veces no deja lugar a dudas como bien expresó Josep Plá: (0637) “Blasco vivía en este mundo en medio de un proceso alternado de melancolía depresiva y de exaltación verbal. Tan pronto parecía un búho moribundo como un emperador romano febricitante. Era un mundo para él totalmente ininteligible, como él era ininteligible para la gente que le rodeaba.” “Cuando hablo de la ininteligibilidad de los elementos de ese mundo, quiero decir que Blasco no era entendido ni cuando hablaba. Su castellano hacía morir de risa, y su francés era el de una vaca española. Tendía a convertir la lengua de Cervantes y de Racine en espesos y extravagantes patois. Lo que sabía realmente –era lo único que sabía– era el magnífico valenciano de su madre –y por eso cuando trataba de hacerse entender lo hacía en función del valenciano. El resultado era abracadabrante, pero inescamoteable; no se habría podido producir otro. A veces se producían situaciones auténticamente cómicas, situaciones ocasionadas por momentáneos desinflamientos del sentido del ridículo, que provocaban en las fisonomías de sus interlocutores risitas nunca suficientemente vagosas para no ser sarcásticas. El escritor entraba en la natural depresión anímica y hacía algo curioso: de vez en cuando daba una mirada de reojo a la roseta de la Legión de Honor que llevaba al ojal de la solapa (esquina izquierda) de su americana. Sin duda la contemplación del honor objetivizado en un botoncito rojo le producía una sensación de seguridad y contribuía a mantenerle los espíritus en una posición tensa.” ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. Enlaces citados en el podcast: Bibliografia completa https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/vicente_blasco_ibanez/su_obra_bibliografia/ Cronología de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/vicente_blasco_ibanez/autor_cronologia/#anyo_1900 Cronologia literaria Blasco Ibáñez https://anyblascoibanez.gva.es/va/cronologia-literaria Time line de su vida https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/vicente-blasco-ibanez-5ac50faf-ff35-40dd-be42-708435362932 Galeria de imágenes https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cervantesvirtual.com%2Fimages%2Fportales%2Fvicente_blasco_ibanez%2Fgraf%2Fcronologia%2F03_cro_blasco_ibanez_retrato_1018_s.jpg&tbnid=s0ix0VfxLAJ4aM&vet=12ahUKEwi45LKn8vr-AhVYmycCHf1fDVMQMygkegUIARDGAQ..i&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cervantesvirtual.com%2Fportales%2Fvicente_blasco_ibanez%2Fautor_cronologia%2F&docid=rpcl3y5OiYotjM&w=301&h=450&q=Mar%C3%ADa%20Blasco%20blasco%20iba%C3%B1ez&hl=es&client=firefox-b-d&ved=2ahUKEwi45LKn8vr-AhVYmycCHf1fDVMQMygkegUIARDGAQ …… Capitulo 6 Joan Fuster sobre blasco. https://annanoticies.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/0-PORT.PROLOG.pdf https://annanoticies.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/I-FUSTER-BLASCO_compressed.pdf https://annanoticies.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2-BLASCO-FUSTER_compressed.pdf https://annanoticies.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/3-ACCIO-BLASCO_compressed.pdf Blasco Ibáñez i la Generació del 98 https://roderic.uv.es/bitstream/handle/10550/85159/05_Fuster_Espill-66.pdf?sequence=1 El Pueblo : diario...: diario republicano de Valencia - Año XXXVI Número 12451 - 1928 enero 30 (30/01/1928) https://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/consulta/registro.do?id=11000220299 Blasco Ibáñez en francés: Una aproximación. Mª del Pilar Blanco García https://web.ua.es/es/histrad/documentos/las-letras-valencianas/09-blasco-ibanez-en-frances-pilar-blanco.pdf Novelas con buena estrella: las traducciones de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez en Francia / Dolores Thion Soriano-Mollá https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra/novelas-con-buena-estrella-las-traducciones-de-vicente-blasco-ibanez-en-francia-1134842/ https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi195WHydL-AhWM76QKHbDrAhgQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.letrasgalegas.org%2FdescargaPdf%2Fnovelas-con-buena-estrella-las-traducciones-de-vicente-blasco-ibanez-en-francia-1134842%2F&usg=AOvVaw39ihgL0DXzCrwzrVW_ETt8 Blasco Ibáñez plagió obras de Shakespeare https://www.elperiodicomediterraneo.com/sociedad/2014/03/13/blasco-ibanez-plagio-obras-shakespeare-41913070.html Blasco Ibáñez plagió traducciones de Shakespeare https://www.levante-emv.com/cultura/2014/03/12/blasco-ibanez-plagio-traducciones-shakespeare-12793600.html Cultura: El plagio de Blasco Ibáñez https://www.ivoox.com/cultura-el-plagio-blasco-ibanez-audios-mp3_rf_2919989_1.html Blasco Ibáñez plagió traducciones de Shakespeare con un seudónimo https://www.elmundo.es/comunidad- valenciana/2014/03/12/532088e022601d96078b4574.html Sobre imitación literaria Baroja y Blasco Ibáñez https://helvia.uco.es/bitstream/handle/10396/16668/8.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y Muocas; crítica y sátira Autor:Emilio Bobadilla pag 277 (plagio de la obra EL PROBLEMA NACIONAL de RICARDO MACIAS PICAVEA sobre la decadencia nacional para ponerlo en La Catedral) https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=2hGEUkKrbqEC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Catedral José María Carretero Novillo https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Carretero_Novillo EL NOVELISTA QUE VENDIO A SU PATRIA O TARTARIN, REVOLUCIONARIO. (TRISTE HISTORIA DE ACTUALIDAD) https://www.iberlibro.com/NOVELISTA-VENDIO-PATRIA-TARTARIN-REVOLUCIONARIO-TRISTE/972584489/bd LA FERTILIDAD DEL 42, LA INFERTILIDAD DEL 33 Y EL HOMBRE COMO UN 6 https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2023/01/01/la-fertilidad-del-42-la-infertilidad-del-33-y-el-hombre-como-un-6/ Confesiones, 1911- Parte I http://elargonautavalenciano.blogspot.com/search/label/A%C3%B1o%201911 BI en «el partido del siglo» http://www.casamuseoblascoibanez.es/bi-en-el-partido-del-siglo/ Suzanne Lenglen vs Helen Wills - 1926 Cannes, France https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HSsH7V3Ml8 Suzanne Lenglen, Helen Wills at the French Tennis Tournament in 1926 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOlbEpMlumA Su primera peseta http://elargonautavalenciano.blogspot.com/search/label/A%C3%B1o%201876 José Jerique Desde Montecarlo: una visita a Blasco Ibáñez https://www.casamuseoblascoibanez.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Jose-Jerique-Desde-Montecarlo.-Una-visita-a-Blasco-Ibanez-El-Figaro-1919-3-6.pdf REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS SOBRE BLASCO IBÁÑEZ. Revista numero 2 http://www.casamuseoblascoibanez.es/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Revista-n%C2%BA2.pdf Blasco Ibáñez, entre Galdós y Pla https://letraslibres.com/revista/blasco-ibanez-entre-galdos-y-pla/ Así pues, cuando hablo de la obra literaria de este autor... (Josep Pla i Casadevall, Casa museo de Vicent Blasco Ibáñez) https://www.endrets.cat/obres/homenots-tercera-serie/1113 Revista La Semana 20-5-1916 https://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/hd/es/viewer?id=04f77d5d-5d62-45e6-b598-bd52eeb7e01a

In this final episode of my 8th season of Teenage Kicks, we hear from Betty and James Mukherjee, of Race Across The World fame. Watching the show we saw the brother and sister relationship develop as they completed challenges together, but they say it wasn't always like this - they fell out like typical siblings when they were growing up. They talk about how they handled their feelings during the harder times on the trip around Southeast Asia (remember when they lost their passports?) and the moment when Betty opened up to James about her diagnosis of MRKH, a medical condition which means she doesn't have a uterus. I ask Betty what it was like to be diagnosed at the age of 16 with something that changed her perception of her life, and I ask James how it felt to know at a young age that his sister's life had changed. They both talk about the need to allow feelings, their own and each other's, and - importantly - to open up about those feelings rather than keeping them locked in. She describes herself as a 'glass half empty' kind of girl, and how important it is to notice when she starts to catastrophise and take steps to change her previous patterns. Betty now shares the reality of her daily life on Instagram and in her women's wellbeing community It's a Balance Thing. She says it's important for her to talk to her friends (even though they couldn't understand) and to share with others going through the same. She recommends MRKH Connect for other people living with MRKH. James tells me about the moment on the show where he gets a hug from a cameraman after feeling emotional during that conversation, and how important it feels now to help men understand that allowing emotions is also important for them. He recommends Andy's Man Club as a good place to start if you're struggling to open up about mental health. You can also message James on Instagram. More teenage parenting from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a counsellor, a parent coach, and a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens.Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email helen@actuallymummy.co.uk.You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy pagePlease note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Episode produced by Michael J Cunningham.

It can be very isolating when your child is diagnosed with a new and scary condition. It always helps to hear from someone who's been through it beforehand, and today's guest has experienced ADHD with bells on in her family and with her teenager. Claire Quigley West tells us about how her teenage years were affected by undiagnosed ADHD. She goes on to explain her son's diagnosis, and how she is finding the challenge of parenting now she has a teenager with ADHD.Read the full transcript or watch this episode on Youtube.Who is Claire Quigley West?Claire is the host of the podcast All Aboard ADHD, which helps parents navigate the ADHD journey. Her ADHD journey began in 2017, when her son was diagnosed at the age of 6. She also has an 8 year old daughter who she says almost certainly has ADHD, although not yet diagnosed. She also has her own adult diagnosis of ADHD.Out of a desire to do everything in her power to support her son, and to ensure other parents never felt as alone as she had, Claire founded ADHD Winchester, as a local parent community in 2021. She has since trained as an ADHD coach (working with tweens and teens).Find Claire at All Aboard ADHD and on Instagram @allaboardadhd.More teenage parenting from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a counsellor, a parent coach, and a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens.Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email helen@actuallymummy.co.uk.You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy pagePlease note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Episode produced by Michael J Cunningham.

Today's guest had an unusual childhood, with a modelling career as a child, and winning Miss Spain at the age of 17. She grew up in the limelight and with a hectic professional schedule. She also attended boarding school in a different country to her family. I talk to Lorena about how a life in the limelight from a young age has influenced her parenting styles and what she teaches her kids about achieving your goals and the reality of success. Who is Lorena Bernal?Born in Argentina, Lorena moved to Spain as a young child and her modelling career kicked off when she was just 7, culminating in her being crowned Miss Spain as a teenager in 1999. She then went on to become a successful actress in Hollywood before moving to the UK with her family and pivoting her career behind the scenes to certify as a life coach and mindfulness practitioner as well as establish her company, Live Love Better. She now balances her career with writing her first book and raising her three sons.Find out more on Lorena's website, and at Live Love Better, her coaching and mental health community. More teenage parenting from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a counsellor, a parent coach, and a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens.Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email helen@actuallymummy.co.uk.You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy pagePlease note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Episode produced by Michael J Cunningham.

Today's guest speaks of horrific emotional bullying at school as a teenager. She struggled to make friends after she was accepted to a selective school, and her self-esteem suffered. Her parents had sacrificed to get her into the school, so Angela didn't feel she could complain to them. Instead, she felt guilty for having attracted the abuse. This is all too common for children who are bullied - the feeling that something must be wrong with them. Angela tells me how this impacted her through her adult life, and how she eventually turned around her view of herself. She now helps others who are dealing with the effects of bullying, be that at school or in the workplace. Who is Angela Roth?Angela journey from being badly bullied in school to becoming a leading figure in the heart-centered coaching industry is a testament to her resilience and commitment to helping others. Growing up in Birkenhead as one of eight children, Angela faced significant challenges but emerged with a determination to make a positive impact in the world.Despite enduring bullying throughout her school years, Angela developed a strong sense of empathy and a desire to protect and assist those who were vulnerable. This early experience shaped her character and set her on a path of service and leadership.After pursuing a degree in mathematics, economics, and business at the University of Manchester, Angela joined the police force, driven by her desire to serve the community. Despite facing obstacles such as sexual harassment and corruption within the force, Angela remained steadfast in her commitment to making a difference. More information HERE!More teenage parenting from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a counsellor, a parent coach, and a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens.Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email helen@actuallymummy.co.uk.You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy pagePlease note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Episode produced by Malloy Podcasts.

This is a podcast that will change how you look at the problems you're going through. Carrie's voice is full of wisdom, and she knows what she's talking about, because she's been there too. Carrie Grant, MBE, is a TV presenter, vocal coach, activist, and World Vision ambassador who has worked with the charity for over 10 years. She was awarded an MBE in 2020 “for services to music, to media and to charity”.She partners with World Vision on the podcast series Raising Changemakers, where she hears from children who are making big changes in their global communities by campaigning to stop harmful practices like child labour, child marriage and FGM.Carrie explains what teenagers can do if they're appalled by the state of the world. She also tells us about her own difficult experiences with Crohn's disease, a life-changing condition she had to learn to live with at a very young age. She also talks about what it's like to raise neurodivergent children. Her book, A Very Modern Family, tells her family's story of neurodiversity. More teenage parenting from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a counsellor, a parent coach, and a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens.Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email helen@actuallymummy.co.uk.There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives.You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy pagePlease note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Episode produced by Malloy Podcasts.

The big question in this episode is whether or not to give your child a smartphone, and what's the right age for your teenager to have a smartphones. Ofcom research in the UK in April 2024 claims that nearly a quarter of 5-7 year olds have their own smartphones, with 65% using WhatsApp and other messaging services.Hannah Oertel is the Founder and CEO of Delay Smartphones, a pioneering initiative dedicated to protecting children from the dangers of smartphones. As a therapist and intervention coach, she says she's observed a concerning rise in anxiety among clients, and didn't want her own children to have a childhood based on smartphones.Hannah developed a non-judgmental parent-to-parent approach that empowers parents with research and alternatives, encouraging them to delay smartphone access until age 14. With Hannah's leadership, Delay Smartphones has garnered support across the UK and recently expanded into the US.More teenage parenting from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens.Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email hhelen@actuallymummy.co.uk.There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives.You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy pagePlease note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Episode produced by Malloy Podcasts.

Think of this podcast as a reframe on your teenager's risky behaviour. By the end of the episode, you'll be able to put your teen's risk-taking into context, and you'll feel much more relaxed as you go through the rollercoaster with them. Who is Daphne Adler?Daphne Adler has been described as “a mother rooting for all mothers.” And I think we all need one of those in our camps when it comes to the teenage years. Daphne has used her analytical and consulting skills to support parents in a new book Debunking Teenagers. In it, she gives us 200 research-based parenting strategies to help adolescents successfully navigate what she calls the “tempteen” years.The book answers the questions all parents of teens have:· Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave recklessly, and what can parents do about it?· Why is telling your son or daughter to “just say no” a hopelessly ineffective strategy?· Why are teens constantly taking selfies?· And how can you keep your child safe behind the wheel?Other books I recommend: Hold on to your kids - Gabor Maté The teenager in the greenhouse - Graham RamsdenMore teenage parenting from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens.Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com.There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives.You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy pagePlease note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.

We've talked a lot about anxiety on the podcast. In this episode, Marneta Viegas talks about how "crippling" self-esteem got the better of her as a teenager. If this is you - or your child - have a listen, and find out what can be done to help teenagers relax. Marneta tells me about her father's sudden death when she was a teenager, and how that filled her with guilt - another self-esteem thief. 19:20 - Strategies for improving self-esteem and helping teenagers relaxWho is Marneta Viegas?Marneta is the founder of Relax Kids Ltd - a leading expert on children's relaxation. She has been running her relaxation programme for the last 25 years and it has helped over 5 million children at home and in school. Marneta has written 20 children's meditation books and has recorded over 500 meditation audios. She has developed a unique (award winning) 7 step method to teach children to self-regulate and manage their anxiety. Marneta's father died suddenly when she was 18, just before she went to university. I'm going to ask her about her relaxation programme, and for her tips on how – as parent's – we can help our teens learn to relax more.More teenage parenting from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens.Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com.There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives.You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy pagePlease note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.

"Loneliness is a condition that's just as bad for you as cancer", says Dr Richard Pile, a GP and specialist in loneliness. He goes on to say that the age bracket most affected by loneliness is young adults aged 16-24. Loneliness at a young age can leave mental health 'scars' in the same way that physical injuries stay with us for the rest of our lives. So it's important to help our teenagers identify when they're lonely, and learn what to do about it. What can we do to prevent loneliness in teenagers? Try to mitigate the effects of academic pressure. Richard sees a lot of teenagers who are isolating thanks to the stress of expectations from schools and ambitious families. We need to help our kids work out what makes them happy, and encourage them to spend time doing more of that. Help them realise that feeling lonely at times is normal. Boredom, stress and loneliness help kids learn who they are and work out what they want to do next. It's only a problem when it's long-term. Digital connection is valuable (especially during the pandemic) but a lot of young people got out of the habit of connecting in a physical space because of the ease of online interactions. We need to help our kids learn how to enjoy being with other people more often. Fight the "cult of the individual". Wellbeing comes from interdependency with friends and family - community. Who is Dr Richard Pile? Richard is an NHS GP specialising in Lifestyle Medicine and Cardiology. Outside of the surgery, his other jobs include promoting lifestyle medicine amongst the public and health professionals, training & appraisal, and being a mentor and coach.He has written for the national press and the British Medical Journal and is the author of a book on wellbeing.More from Richard : Listen to Richard's TEDx talk on loneliness in young adults. Get Richard's book Fit For Purpose (affiliate link) His website Feel Good For Life Other links, including Richard's newsletter, podcast and social mediaMore from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens.Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please get in touch.You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy pagePlease note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Episode produced by Michael J Cunningham.

TW: Self-harmMy guest for this episode goes by the name of That Hoarder.As a compulsive hoarder, she says she struggles with many aspects of hoarding behaviours, which she talks about on her own podcast That Hoarder - the first ever podcast by somebody who actually hoards rather than by a professional. She started her podcast to keep herself accountable and to help others with this stigmatised and hidden condition, as well as to raise awareness of hoarding disorder.She says that very stigma is why she does this anonymously. This is a sensationalised and shamed mental illness and speaking more openly about it is an essential way to spread the word and help people. While a lot is still not understood, she told me that there can be signs of hoarding as early as childhood or teenage years.2:45 - People judge hoarding as being about laziness, but it's a manifestation of something else that's wrong. That's why TV shows that sensationalise the condition aren't helpful. Why clearing the space isn't helpful. 7:00 - Seeing hoarding as a coping strategy. My guest talks about feeling "wrong at her core" and having out of control emotions. 12:00 - Understanding what might drive self-harm. 14:38 - Signs of hoarding in a teenager. Which hoarding symptoms begin between the ages of 10-20, before escalating in later life. 21:00 - What might have helped prevent hoarding disorder developing?38:00 - Why professional help is needed to help someone combat their hoarding disorder, and what kind is most helpful. 39:25 - An effective strategy for successfully managing self-harm. 56:00 - When is it hoarding, and when is it just a messy teenager? How can parents help a teenager who hoards?Resources: Overcoming self-harm Overcome Compulsive Hoarding podcast Advice for children of hoarders Hoarding Disorders UK MindMore from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens.Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please get in touch.You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy pagePlease note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Episode produced by Michael J Cunningham.

It's Season 10 of Type 1 on 1, can you believe it? There's no better person to start the series with than parent blogging and podcasting royalty Helen Wills, better known online as Actually Mummy. For more than a decade, Helen has helped other Mums and Dads navigate the far-reaching multitudes of parenting through the Actually Mummy blog and more recently her podcast, Teenage Kicks. As well as all the normal challenges of parenthood and the magic of family life, they've faced it all with type 1 diabetes too, Helen's daughter Maddie was diagnosed at nine years old and the condition forced its way into the entire family's life. It's been a pivotal few months for Helen as Maddie has now left home to start her first year of university; a monumental milestone for Helen after a devastating personal experience when she herself was a student.We chat about how it feels to have your firstborn leave home, turning off Maddie's glucose alarms, teenage hormones, alcohol and diabetes, the grief of the diagnosis for a parent and what this new chapter means for Helen, who is currently training to be a counsellor. CONNECT WITH HELENCheck out the Actually Mummy Blog.Say hi to Helen on Instagram.Listen to the Teenage Kicks podcast.JOIN THE TYPE 1 ON 1 COMMUNITYWe've got an Instagram account! Come and say hi @studiotype1on1.You can find me on Instagram @missjengrieves.SPONSOR MESSAGEThanks to my episode sponsors Insulet, the founders of Pod Therapy - only found with Omnipod. Pod therapy uses a tubeless, wearable and waterproof Pod that continuously delivers insulin for up to three days.Controlled wirelessly by its handheld companion, it allows you to personalise your insulin doses according to your own daily needs - no multiple daily injections and no tubes.Head to https://www.omnipod.com/ to find out more.

"The only person who can help you is you"Harriet Barnsley survived a serious road traffic collision in 2014 when she was 21. She was hit, as a pedestrian, by a car travelling at 101miles per hour. She woke from a month-long coma to learn that her best friend had been killed at the scene.Harriet lives with a long list of injuries and is physically disabled. She suffered a traumatic brain injury in the collision, and went on to develop bipolar as a result.2:00 - Being bullied at school for being good at her work, wanting to do well, and not conforming to the tough girls' standards. Harriet says what a relief it is as an adult to realise that we're "not trying to ruin each other's lives" any more!8:00 - Proof that we're all feeling as insecure as each other - no one is invulnerable.11:00 - How time makes hard things easier to bear, and the joy of finding a real connection in friendship.14:20 - Harriet describes the incident she was involved in.19:45 - Recovery from severe injuries and how it affects mental health. 22:00 - Is it tough love? How parents can support an injured child - the tricky balance between empathy and resilience. 25:00 - Why worrying doesn't help your teenager, and how to make peace with your anxiety as a parent and be present for your child. 28:00 - What it's like to live with life-changing injuries.29:00 - The mental health effects of ignoring the emotional impact of a road traffic collision. Harriet describes her psychosis and mental health breakdown, and how it "set her free". 34:00 - What it's like to live with bipolar.36:30 - How to get through the worst thing you could possibly imagine. Making the choice to do hard things. 40:00 - How to get through a parent's worst nightmare. 49:00 - Harriet's main piece of advice: if you're struggling with something, TALK to someone. Trying to ignore your feelings never works. Harriet is now writing a memoir - Thrown, about coping when your life is thrown off course. She volunteers for a number of mental health and disability charities and is training to be a counsellor. More from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens.Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please get in touch.You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy pagePlease note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Episode produced by Michael J Cunningham.

Human trafficking isn't just something that happens far away from the UK, to naive people in desperate situations. It could happen much closer to home than you think; it could even happen to your teenager. In this episode I talk to Ruth Dearnley about what modern day slavery looks like and how your teenager could fall into a trap without realising what's happening. Ruth says human trafficking is a "global, organised, criminal business" that doesn't look anything like the Taken films, as we imagine it. Often it's framed as an exciting new job, or a travelling opportunity that looks legitimate, which is why people sign up willingly to be trafficked before they realise they're trapped - physically, financially, or through intimidation. Before you think about this happening abroad, it's right here in the UK. There is a high degree of trafficking in our care system, in factories, and in our farming industry. And if you've heard of County Lines in the context of drug trafficking, modern day slavery is happening there too. It often happens through grooming, and vulnerable teenagers are more prone to following the road to being groomed - when someone already feels unsafe, it's easy to convince them that the hand being offered is an opportunity. A high percentage of trafficked people have been homeless.Listen to the episode to hear a truly amazing story about human trafficking. Find out more about human trafficking and get help Get the STOP app Every Child Protected Against Trafficking Trafficking through County LinesWho is Ruth Dearnley? Ruth Dearnley is the founder and CEO of an anti-human trafficking organisation called Stop the Traffik. She wants to create a world where people are not bought and sold, through the prevention and disruption of modern slavery and human trafficking. She focuses on prevention rather than cure, and believes that bay taking a data led and tech enabled approach, people can connect and grow powerful networks that turn insight into action, creating communities that are high risk and low profit to traffickers.More from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens.Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please get in touch.You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy pagePlease note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.

In this episode we talk to Bharti Lim, who is determined that young women should have as many opportunities to work - and claim senior roles - in tech. She says the reason girls often don't consider careers in tech is because they don't see women like them in the industry. She wants to change that, and joins me on the podcast to tell me how she thinks parents can help. 7:00 - Parents will be reassured to know that Bharti's teenage years weren't full of perfect moments, yet she still has a very successful career in tech. 10:00 - Growing up in an Asian family with first generation parents. Experiencing depression and self-harm as a teenager. 15:00 - Masking as a teenage girl with ADHD.19:00 - The value of counselling and psychotherapy to understand yourself and your feelings, particularly to undo unhealthy patterns adopted in teenage years. 27:00 - How to inspire more girls into tech. Some examples of jobs in tech, and why girls might be more tech-savvy than they realise. Why tech isn't a boy's job. 38:00 - How to encourage interest in tech, and why it's more glamorous than you think. Who is Bharti Lim? Bharti is a cyber security strategy manager at Computacenter, who run work experience days. She has worked in the cyber security industry for over 18 years, and has realised the importance of being visible, not only in the workplace, but for the next generation of young women in tech to see that there is no such thing as 'a man's job'. She is passionate about initiatives around diversity and inclusion, gender and ethnicity, and is an active advocate of change. Bharti was a finalist for the CRN Women in Channel Awards 2021 and a SHE awards winner in 2020. Her TEDx talk explores how we can positively redefine the 'old boys' network'.More from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens.Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please get in touch.You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy pagePlease note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.

Ad: This episode is sponsored by tutoring organisation Explore Learning. If you have a teenager, it's pretty much inevitable that you're going to come up against exam stress and GCSE results at some point, and it's quite possible you've considered getting a tutor for your child.Carey Ann Dodah from Explore Learning has more than 20 years experience in education. She's also been a school governor, and chair of the PTA, and has two teenagers of her own, so she gets it. I ask her to give us her best strategies for effective study, online learning tips, and how parents can navigate educational challenges when we're worried, especially about GCSE exam results. 5:30 - Is getting a tutor really worth it? Why parents aren't always the best people to support their teenagers academically, and the value of a tutor.12:45 - How do we help our teens transition to adulthood? 16:40 - Why maths and English are the most useful subjects to have a tutor in.21:30 - What's the most important thing a child will learn from a tutor?22:45 - Is it ever too late to get a tutor for GCSEs?25:30 - Is there ever a reason NOT to get a tutor for our teenagers?31:00 - How to choose a tutor for your teenager. More about how Explore Learning works and the benefits of working with experts who help you find the best tutor for your teen. Explore Learning offers maths & English, SATs, 11 Plus & GCSE tuition both online and in person at UK centres. Check out their website for more information. More from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens.Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please get in touch.You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy pagePlease note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.

Jay Simmons is a student and a transgender teenager. I met Jay at a TEDx talk, where she delivered a – quite frankly – incredible talk aiming to address those misunderstandings. She said, “if you love transgender people, listen to this talk. If you hate transgender people, also listen to this talk.” Her motivation to do the TEDx talk and to speak with me on the podcast today, comes from a desire to help people understand and to give other transgender people a way to explain it to their families.6:30: Feeling different as a child, but not knowing what that was about. Jay explains that puberty felt like an out of body experience. She eventually found a website that suggested that this is how some transgender people feel. That didn't resonate - Jay thought she would have known if she was transgender, so it took a while for her to realise. When her voice dropped, that was when she really realised she didn't feel like herself as a boy. 10:25: What is: Trans-feminine Dissociation DepersonalisationWho is Jay Simmons?Jay is a 6th form student studying media, drama and computer science. A few years ago, she realised she was transgender and with that, also realised that there are a lot of ways that transgender people are misunderstood.Click the link to watch Jay's TEDx talk What does transgender mean anyway? Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens.Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please get in touch.There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives.You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr's policy page Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.

Dr Beth Mosely MBE talks to Helen about feeling different as a teenager, rebelling agains her parents to figure out her own identity, and trying to fit in with her peer group. We talk about what causes anxiety in teenagers, how it manifests, and what we can do as parents to help teens accept themselves in order to manage anxious feelings. We discuss: Social media - why it isn't to blame, and what to do about it Why filters in photos might be a good thing Feeling different Why teenagers don't really trust their friends Preparing our children for the reality of growing up in a world we didn't experience How to understand how your child sees the world, and support it when we don't get itWho is Beth Mosley?Dr Beth Mosley, MBE, is a clinical psychologist who works with children and adolescents, and the author of Happy Families, a family handbook to help parents understand their child's mental health, and how to help them with anxiety. Beth is often asked to appear on TV and radio to talk about mental health on BBC News, ITV, Channel 4 news, as well as BBC radio.Her book Happy Families is available now (affiliate link).More teenage parenting from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens.Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com.There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives.You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co.Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.

If your teenager is thinking of travelling over the summer, or taking a Gap year before, or after University, you might be worried about a few things: How will they finance their student travel? How can they stay safe? Will a year out have a detrimental effect on their job prospects? Lee McAteer is the co-founder of Camp New York, a brand new camp in America, where young adults have the opportunity to earn money and gain work experience in a structured and safe environment, before travelling with their earnings. He says student travel is an amazing opportunity, and gives his tips on how to make sure it adds to students' CVs too.Who is Lee McAteer?Known as ‘Britain's Best Boss', entrepreneur and student travel expert, Lee McAteer, has announced his much-anticipated come back in the student travel sector.McAteer, co-owner of the largest independent wrestling company in Europe, PROGRESS Wrestling, has teamed up with USA visa sponsor IENA, the world leaders in cultural exchange programmes, to launch a new travel experience in summer camp cultural exchange.Camp New York will offer participants an experience of a lifetime to work at a USA summer camp in the New York tri-state region. All participants will receive a fantastic salary with all food and accommodation costs covered as part of their package.Lee McAteer, co-founder of Camp New York said: “I'm so excited to announce my travel come back project with the launch of Camp New York."More teenage parenting from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens.Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com.There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives.You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co.Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.

Does your teenager drink? If they're of legal age, how much do they drink, and do you worry that it's a problem? Is the partying at University becoming more of a regular drinking habit? What is normal drinking at that age, and when should you worry about addiction?Ian Hawkins talks about how his addiction began at university, how it helped him, then got in his way, and how he recovered. He talks about anxiety, using alcohol as a coping mechanism, and to "fit in"socially, and when he realised it was a problem. He has advice for parents who are worried about their teenager's drinking.Who is Ian Hawkins?Ian Hawkins is a keynote speaker and business journalist who has risen to the top of his game – in spite of a lot of physical and mental challenges. Born with congenital heart disease in the 1970s, the odds were stacked against him. At the age of 6, he fell seriously ill, resulting in a 3 month hospital stay. Surviving this ordeal, he had to endure further challenges, including a traumatic struggle with alcohol addiction. But Ian says it's adversity that has driven him to fight and become the success that he is today, working with some of the best known performers and on some of the best TV programmes in the UK.More teenage parenting from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens.Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com.There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives.You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co.Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.This episode is produced by Michael Cunningham.

TW: My guest today is Debra Blackman. Debra tells us about sexual abuse that happened to her as a child, so if that's likely to be difficult for you to hear, please do switch off from this episode.Growing up in a family with an affluent facade, Debra suffered in silence from sexual abuse by a family member until she was 17. Her mother failed to see her plight. When the family moved home, Debra experienced bullying and isolation, and struggled to face the situation she was in. The abuse from her father reached a breaking point when she was 18, and she finally stood up to him, leading to her being kicked out of her own home with just £5 to her name.It's not surprising that this difficult start took Debra down a toxic path in her relationships over the next few years, but today she is a top flight banker and CEO, providing an example of how it's possible to overcome even the worst kind of experiences and build a life you can love.Debra tells us how her behaviour reflected what was happening to her, how therapy changed her mindset about her life, and how she hasn't allowed the abuse to define her. She also says how hard it was to walk away from the abuse when she was very young, and acknowledges that she wasn't ready to tackle her trauma until the time was right. Who is Debra Blackman? Debra is the owner of Viessentially, an exectuive PA service. More teenage parenting from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens.Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com.There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives.You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co.Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

Do you know what bulking and cutting is? Has your teenager asked you to change what you feed the family, veering between carb-loading and keto-style meal requests? If you're worrying about your sporty teenager's attitude to food, this episode is worth a listen. My guests are Kate Shilland and Fran Taylor, registered nutritionists who have seen how teenage athletes are influenced by TikTok creators to resort to sometimes extreme measures to get 'the perfect physique'. We talked about toxic masculinity, self-esteem and body image in young men and teenage boys in last week's episode, and this is the perfect follow up conversation for anyone who's 14 year old is asking for a gym membership and scrutinising their diet. Kate and Fran explain how good nutrition will help boys as well as girls build the muscle they need for strong athletic performance, without the need for special powders and supplements. Who are Kate and Fran? Kate & Fran are Registered Sports & Public Health Nutritionists with over 15 years' experience in helping people understand how to fuel their bodies better in order to perform better. They work with teen athletes and their parents, and have teenage athletes of their own; they say the consistent thing they see is that there's a lack of good sports nutrition advice for young people, and an overload of terrible information, especially on social media, that can be challenging to navigate.That's why they started Performance Canteen, a go-to resource of easy to follow, science-backed facts on sports nutrition and practical recipes and tips on how to make healthier choices. The aim is always to make the healthy option the easy option, to arm young athletes and their parents with the knowledge and skills needed to build the best versions of themselves, whatever the goals may be.Their recommendations and resources are based on feedback from teens, parents, teachers & coaches, with the aim of providing everyone with the same good information. More teenage parenting from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast or want to hear more on parenting teenagers contact me on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr.Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

As the mother of both a teenage girl AND boy, I've seen how both of them have absorbed the messages in society about toxic masculinity, and I've been shocked at how polarising those are. I know the effect of attitudes towards women from my own experiences and my daughter's; but I've also seen how damaging some of the narrative around that can be to boys and young men.Boys and young men across the UK are struggling; research shows a decline in mental health and well-being, increased isolation, a lack of safe spaces and trusted relationships, and a higher risk of engaging in gangs, violence, substance misuse, and weapon-carrying amongst boys since Covid.This is a hugely sensitive issue, so I'm going to say straight up, if anything we discuss in this episode feels difficult for you, please do raise it with me – I really think this is a conversation that needs to be opened up much more widely.Instead of toxic masculinity, Hayley talks about healthy masculinities. She says it's an area of civil society that is often misunderstood.What is Toxic Masculinity?I think Toxic masculinity is a phrase that's thrown around without too much thought, and with a certain amount of anger. I get why, and it's hugely important that the issue of attitudes towards women and girls is continuously raised - as the mother of a teenage girl it feels really scary sometimes. But we also need to consider the impact on boys. Hayley Roffey is a mum who has been working with children and young people for 2 decades, through the Global Fund for Children – she instigated their healthy masculinities initiative when she realised that there was an alarming suicide trend amongst boys and young men. Hayley tells us about the Healthy Masculinities programme and how it aims to change the messages boys are getting so that they can take responsibility for themselves in a way which supports them to be authentic. We also talk about bullying at school, acceptance versus challenge as a parent, and the joy of having really ugly braces as a teenager. More teenage parenting from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast or want to hear more on parenting teenagers contact me on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr.Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

Climate expert and campaigner Mark Ballabon says that today's teenagers feel under immense pressure, and have a lot of anxiety around the state of our planet. His book, Home, is described as a coming of age story for the Greta Thunberg generation. He talks to me about how teens are feeling, why some of them shut down conversations about the environment, and what we - as parents - can do to help them work out how they feel about climate change and activism. 2:30 - Mark describes his own teenage years as "a bit of a car crash". He was sent to a very academic school and found it very stressful. Mark talks about academic pressure and how it made him very introspective and self-conscious. He says it was this that eventually made him stop caring what other people thought, and start questioning the bigger issues of life. 7:15 - Mark talks about how we all compare ourselves to others, especially in the world of social media. He says "every single relationship that you will ever form in your life depends upon your relationship with yourself."10:00 - Why empathy is so important for authenticity, and how important it is to understand each other. It's why Mark used young editors from all over the world to help him write his book. 14:00 - Why we must never - as parents - use the same slang that our kids use. 16:30 - How to listen well so we can empathise with our teenagers, and how to show up with our own authentic feelings and model emotional maturity. 25:45 - "We don't understand people because we're always assuming that we do." A brilliant quote about what stops us communicating effectively and understanding our kids. 28:20 - How should we cope with our teenagers' fears over climate change.34:00 - Are some forms of climate activism detrimental to the cause?40:00 - What more can we do individually to save the planet?Find out more about Mark Ballabon Read Mark's book HomeMore teenage parenting from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast or want to hear more on parenting teenagers contact me on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr.Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

Young maverick entrepreneur Morgan Boult was a rebel at school and told he would never amount to anything. But at 19 and Managing Director of a successful call centre, already in its 6th year of trading and incorporated when he was aged 13, he is the epitome of proving everyone wrong. But there is more to Morgan Boult's story. Here is someone amazingly unique and earmarked for bigger, greater things. During a difficult time at school, he was a rebel who saw a tough time growing up. Add to this his mother who was a headmistress and father, a successful actuary, the pressure on him was enormous for perfect school years and a steady adolescence. But in true Sir Richard Branson style, Morgan had other ideas. Forming his first business at school selling sweets he showed business savvy almost immediately expanding beyond schoolboy expectations; getting a card machine contract with a credit card company, opening a fully functional shop in his parent's garage, and because of demand bringing two rucksacks a time full of products to school.Morgan talks about how - just because you're a square peg in a round hole at school - it doesn't mean your teenager is going to be a dropout. Morgan's parents struggled when he was constantly in trouble at school, but he says he was always going to be fine - it's just that school didn't work for him. Morgan gives advice to parents on the best way to support a teenager who isn't conforming, and says not to lose faith in them.More about Morgan Boult: Morgan's business Hero PA Morgan on LinkedIn Atelier 21 SchoolAlso listen to this episode with Hazel Davis, a teenage runaway who's now a successful journalist. More teenage parenting from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast or want to hear more on parenting teenagers contact me on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr.Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

Trigger warning: episode deals with suicidal ideation. Suzanne also briefly mentions the impact on her life of being raped. My guest in this episode is Suzanne Alderson. When Suzanne's 14 year old daughter Izzy became suicidal, following a period of sustained bullying, Suzanne found herself in a desperate place. While her daughter was immediately wrapped in professional care, Suzanne found that there was no support available to help her or her husband make sense of it all and give their child the best kind of care. One night on suicide watch, she decided if she ever got through this time, she would ensure no other family had to navigate this journey alone. Suzanne has since set up a digital community to try and help other families facing their child's mental illness. Parenting Mental Health is now a registered charity that supports and connects parents of young people with poor mental health.Her book ‘Never Let Go' provides parents with the methods and knowledge they need to support, shield and strengthen their child as they progress towards recovery.6:00 - Suzanne talks about the impact of sexual assault on her own teenage years. She mentions promiscuity, shame, low self-esteem, and how different life looked from the point of view of someone who experiences this at a young age. 9:00 - What are the unhealthy coping strategies we use when we have difficult feelings, and what would serve us better. The value of personal therapy and EMDR in processing and coming to terms with our emotions around what has happened to us. 16:00 - How emotions show up in the body and what to do about it. (See book, The Body Keeps the Score.)23:30 - Why we can't fight our children's battles for them, and how to respect their autonomy. 30:00 - How it feels when your child is suicidal. 32:00 - What works, and how to cope as a parent of a suicidal teenager. 41:00 - Reframing your role as a parent as your child becomes an adult. "Partnering, not Parenting". What is Parenting Mental Health? Useful Links: The Body Keeps the Score Parenting Mental Health Never Let Go What is EMDR?*Some links are affiliate.More teenage parenting from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast or want to hear more on parenting teenagers contact me on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr.Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

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Lotte Jeffs and Stu Oakley, hosts of Some Families podcast, join me on Teenage Kicks in this episode to talk about how we approach our teenagers about gender and sexuality. Stu says here that it's completely normal for parents to find this difficult - it's a very easy conversation, where I make lots of mistakes and am not made to feel bad about it, so it's perfect for parents who don't know how to approach the subject with their teenagers. 6:00 - Fighting our homophobic upbringings as middle aged parents 7:00 - The acceptability of 'queer', and the language we need to know 21:55 - How queer identities are labelled by sex, and the need to teach kids about love and relationships beyond sex 25:10 - Working out who you are as a teenager 31:50 - How to talk to teenagers about gender and sexuality 35:15 - What to say when your child tells you about their sexuality 40:30 - How to make sure your child is an ally to their queeer friends 50:00 - What you'll get out of reading The Queer ParentWho are Lotte and Stu? Lotte Jeffs and Stu Oakley run the podcast Some Families, is a podcast dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ+ families. Lotte is an award-winning magazine writer, editor, author and podcaster, and a contributing editor for Grazia. Stu is a film publicist; he's written a number of opinion pieces for the Guardian, Grazia, ELLE and NetMums about his own parenting journey and the experiences of being part of a queer family.Their recent book, The Queer Parent is the essential handbook for the LGTBQ+ community, their friends, family and allies. This informative, funny and empowering book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand and support the full breadth of the queer experience. Useful links: Buy your copy of The Queer Parent (affiliate link) Surviving domestic abuse as a teenager Out with Suzi Ruffell podcast Lotte's book My Magic Family for young children (affiliate link) Anna Mathur on Instagram From Gay to Ze on InstagramMore teenage parenting from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast or want to hear more on parenting teenagers contact me on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr.Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

Mike Parker tells the story of how he told his family he was gay. It's the warmest story, with a family who were totally accepting, and yet Mike's vulnerability is palpable. He takes us back to that age, when he was terrified of his parents' reaction, and takes us on that journey he went on. This podcast is for anyone who is loved, but doesn't know how they're going to tell their family the truth about their lives. It's also for their parents; Mike gives tips on how to approach your child if you think they might have something to tell you, and how to support them when they do. More teenage parenting from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast or want to hear more on parenting teenagers contact me on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr.Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

This week's guest Jill Grimes is a MD in a US college (like a university GP), so she's well placed to talk about staying healthy at university. But first we talk about popularity in school (spoiler - neither of us was in the popular gang in our teens), why even the popular people don't feel confident in school, and how that all changes when you hit university and everyone is in the same boat. Once you get to university, being clever is cool, playing a musical instrument is impressive, and people don't judge you on what you're good at. We also get some advice from Jill on homesickness at university, and how we can support our kids to stay (relatively) healthy while they're away from home. Here's a breakdown of our conversation:2:30 - Popularity at school, and rushing through things instead of enjoying them4:15 - Please excuse my dog Rocket, the postman triggered him!7:00 - Letting your teen go and how to prepare yourself9:40 - Social anxiety as a teenager15:30 - Sorting out acne as a teenager (listen to ep. 59 for more on medication for acne)22:10 - How to handle homesickness at university. Tip 1: Don't go home in the first 6 weeks!35:45 - What to do when you start feeling ill after Freshers38:15 - What if your child gets a tattoo? (As an aside - how to handle piercings that won't heal). What to consider, the truth about tattoo colours, and how difficult it is to remove a tattoo.50:30 - What to do about a cartilage piercing that won't healWho is Jill Grimes?Jill Grimes, MD, FAAFP, is an American nationally recognized medical media expert, award-winning author, and proud mum of two daughters. After two decades of private practice in family medicine, Dr. Grimes now splits her time between writing, speaking, and seeing patients. She's currently working on the 3rd edition of her latest book, The ULTIMATE College Student Health Handbook: Your Guide for Everything from Hangovers to Homesickness! Dr. Grimes is your go-to source for everything teens & young adults (& their parents) REALLY need to know about common anxieties, illnesses, injuries and so much more! The TikTok College Doc Jill Grimes MD websiteMore teenage parenting from Helen Wills:Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast or want to hear more on parenting teenagers contact me on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills.For information on your data privacy please visit Zencastr.Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

In this episode of the Teenage Kicks podcast I talk to psychologist and therapist Dr Tara Porter about why parent/teen relationships are so fraught with misunderstandings, and what to do about it. Specifically, Tara talks about why teenagers think their parents don't understand them - her book, You Don't Understand Me*, is aimed at teenage girls, to help them navigate these tricky years, as well as giving insights into what their daughters are experiencing. *Affiliate link. We also talk about university - how to choose the best one for you, and why uni isn't necessarily the best choice. We cover parental anxiety and the pressure it can put on teenagers, and how we can encourage our kids to follow the best path for them, rather than following the crowd. Who is Dr Tara Porter? Tara Porter is a Clinical Psychologist and writer working in north-west London. ​She draws on decades of experience to provide therapy to adolescents and adults in person and online. She uses her in-depth knowledge of the teenage mindset to support parents. ​Tara offers a variety of talks and workshops with pupils, staff and parents thinking about improving mental health. ​She writes and speaks regularly in the mainstream media about mental health. Find out more at taraporterpsychologist.com. More teenage parenting from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

In this episode I talk to Luke Grim, one half of the dad duo who run website/newsletter These 16 Things. Luke told me about the fathers' belief that kids need to be taught life skills by their parents - some that most parents don't feel equipped to teach. Their newsletter aims to walk parents through the process of having those important conversations with their kids, to teach them to think on their own and to hold their ground when culture says they should do something that goes against their morals. Who is Luke Grim? Luke is 43 years old, married with 8 kids. He and his wife homeschool them all, and they range from 16 months old to 13 years old. He grew up with a single military dad, who did the best he could. However, Luke says he got into vandalising, ran from the cops a few times at 2am, messed up at school, and got into shoplifting. He says the shoplifting began because he couldn't work out how to fit in with the crowd at school. The purpose of These 16 Things is to give some confidence and tools for parents to intentionally sit down with their teens and prepare them for hard topics and teach real skills. Too often, parents have HUGE amounts of experiences from good/bad lessons learned, yet tend to only pass these on to kids when something "happens", instead of being intentional. Have a listen! More teenage parenting from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

Today I'm speaking to Danielle Marsh, of Marsh Family fame. Together with Ben and their 4 children Alfie, Thomas, Ella and Tess, all aged 11-16 Danielle shot to online fame during Covid lockdown, when they uploaded a parody version of One Day More, outlining their views on how the pandemic was being handled by the UK government. The video went viral, and after that they were in demand! Since then, they've created multiple humorous takes on UK life and politics, and even a song about menopause, and how to weather it openly as a family. I wanted to talk to Danielle about how her family - with so many teenagers - manages to stay connected and communicating - enough to create music together! Danielle's son Alfie joined us mid-podcast to tell us how it felt to be thrust into the spotlight on YouTube, how his friends kept him grounded, and how he felt about creating a song about menopause with his family. Who is Danielle Marsh? Danielle is a 45 year old mum to 3 teens and a pre teen who became known during the pandemic when a Covid parody song they produced went viral in March 2020. Since then the family have continued to post parody songs and original content on a varied host of topics from the cost of living crisis, menopause, repeated political shenanigans and overuse of technology. Juggling jobs, kids, music and life Danielle and husband Ben along with Alfie, Thomas, Ella and Tess hope to find humour in even the trickiest of topics with the belief that if they discuss it round the dinner table it's a possibility for a song! You can find out more about Marsh Family Songs here. More teenage parenting from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

Something a little bit different on the podcast today - we ARE going to talk about teenagers, and how they're affected by toxic relationships when things go wrong for their parents. But FIRST we talk about something a lot of us midlife mums (and dads) might relate to - FEELING BLAH. That's the title of my guest's book. Parenting author Tanith Carey writes a lot about the teenage brain. She had a tough time when her parents divorced, but it was midlife when she noticed that despite having a happy life on paper, she wasn't really feeling it. She researched this feeling that wasn't depression, but wasn't happiness either, and discovered a little used word for it - ANHEDONIA. Feeling Blah? Why anhedonia has left you joyless, and how to recapture life's highs* is an exploration of what causes the lacklustre feeling so many of us go through at times. She explains the science behind it, and - better still - tells us what to do to move beyond it and feel excited for life again. *Affiliate link She also talks me through her parents' divorce, and the toxic atmosphere she lived in before they separated. We discuss the impact that had on her emotional development, and how she developed coping strategies that affected how she would feel about life decades later. If you've ever found yourself overthinking your feelings, this is the conversation for you. Who is Tanith Carey? Tanith Carey is an author who writes books which use the latest research to offer a lucid analysis of the most pressing challenges for today's parents. Her eleven books have been translated into 25 languages. She has written on the impact of competitive parenting on children and parents, plus friendship issues, and is one of the UK media's leading commentators on girls' well-being. As an award-winning journalist, Tanith also writes on psychology, social trends, childhood, adolescence and family relationships for a wide range of newspapers and magazines around the world including The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian and Daily Mail. Follow Tanith on Twitter and Instagram. More teenage parenting from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

Today's guest is Harry, aka the Champagne Socialist on TikTok. I found Harry through one of his irreverent but astute commentaries on the political landscape. Harry has a no-nonsense view on UK politics, and is raising awareness amongst young people of his generation of how they can influence what's happening in their world. We talk about what it's like choosing a university degree course, what kind of doors open for you while you're there, and how to approach the myriad opportunities a university degree offers. That said, Harry told me that university isn't a golden ticket. University is much more accessible to more people now, which is a good thing, but what that means is that most young people looking for their first serious job will have a degree - it doesn't set you apart. Harry says that's why it's so important to think about what else you can do to make yourself stand out, over and above the learning you'll gain during your course. He also told me that extra-curricular activity like Duke of Edinburgh awards and NCS aren't likely to improve your chances of UCAS offers from the best universities. Instead, Harry says take every opportunity to learn that's offered to you, get involved in other things outside of school and university - things you can add to your CV, and things that will expand your point of view on the world, that employers will be interested in. Harry says it can feel demoralising to have a great education and a good brain, and to still be struggling to get your ideal job. We talk about what it was like being a student during Covid lockdown - it sounds so hard, and if this was you or your child, you'll relate. Harry talks about his diagnosis of autism as a teenager, and how that affected his mental health at university during the pandemic. Who is the Champagne Socialist? 22 year old Harry started his satirical analysis of UK politics as part of a module for his university course, but it grew so quickly that he continued it long after the project was over, highlighting young people's views on the biggest failures of our government. He now has 123k followers, and is recognised by followers who attend events just because they've seen Harry talk about them.   As well as producing content for TikTok, Harry is also developing a podcast where he talks about the British and global political landscape. More teenage parenting from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

Natasha Devon, MBE, joined me on the Teenage Kicks podcast to talk about something most parents of girls will be all too familiar with - friendship issues. Teenage girls don't grow out of problems with their friends as early as we'd like them to, but they do grow out of us being able to fix fallouts for them with a playdate or a sleepover. Put simply, when they're teenagers, it gets even messier. Add social media, and the permanent ability to stay connected via Snapchat and Whatsapp, and our teenage daughters need a lot of resilience to navigate the sometimes destructive arena of their social lives. Writer, presenter and activist, Natasha tours schools in the UK and beyond, delivering talks and conducting research on mental health, body image, gender and equality. From her experiences of what teenage girls talk about with her, she's written a YA novel which examines friendship problems in the context of coercive control. Toxic* is a brilliant read for teenage girls and parents alike, and food for thought for girls struggling to know how to approach friendships that feel a bit rocky at times. (*Affiliate link.) What interested me most was that the 'toxic' character in the story wasn't a bad person; she just had her own insecurities and fears that led her to unhealthy coping mechanisms with her friends. Natasha says that was deliberate. In her work with teenagers she sees the fragility behind the bravado, and understands that none of our teenagers are really equipped with the emotional maturity to empathise and support each other. In this episode Natasha explains that, and offers some tips for how to help our daughters navigate their friendships when they're not going as well as they could be. Who is Natasha Devon, MBE? Natasha presents on LBC (one of Britain's most popular speech radio stations) every Saturday, and writes regularly for newspapers and magazines. In her charity work Natasha supports people coping with anxiety disorders, online abuse, eating disorders, and talks regularly about gender issues, all of which – as we know – affect all of our teenagers to some extent throughout their young adult years. Author of titles like A beginner's Guide to being Mental and You can Ace School Without Losing Your Mind, Natasha speaks directly to young people. Find out more about Natasha on her website, natashadevon.com and follow her on Instagram. More teenage parenting from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

Welcome back the the first in the new series of the Teenage Kicks podcast, where we take the fear out of parenting teenagers. This week I got tips for living with a teenage daughter, from a mum who fears she might be repeating the mother- daughter trauma from her own teenage years with daughter, despite her best efforts to do quite the opposite. Emma Campbell told me how she tries so hard to get teenage parenting right, yet she constantly feels like she's failing. And I sighed a big sigh of relief. It's not just me. In fact, I suspect it's all of us, so you'll get tons of validation from listening to Emma's episode. If this episode leaves you wanting more, read the blog post with mine and Emma's rules for living with a teenage daughter. Who is Emma Campbell? Emma Campbell is an author, speaker, and podcast host. She's also an all-round lovely human being who happily puts all her flaws out in the open for us to see, so that we can all feel less alone with our own struggles. As a mother of teenagers, if Emma's Instagram posts struck any more chords with me, they'd be a symphony orchestra. On a recent post she says “I'm hugely out of my depth with teenage emotions and seem to be successfully repeating the mother daughter conflict I was SO intent on avoiding. Trying to articulate unconditional love, but it comes out as the opposite. Miscommunication spitting and spinning like a Catherine Wheel.” Emma writes so beautifully of failure as a mother, of the pride we all have for our kids, and of the deep, deep longing to get motherhood ‘right'. Emma is the mother of triplet teenagers and a young man who has seen her go through long-term cancer treatment. A single mum, she's had more than her fair share of difficult times, and yet she's an inspiration to everyone who knows her. I wanted to find out how she really feels about parenting teens, and we had a joyous chat which left me feeling seen, and hopeful. Emma's new podcast, Open, is another lovely collection of conversations on authentic, messy living - you'll like it! More teenage parenting from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy, a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about yourself or a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

We're full of life advice in this week's podzine. First up, Mick chats to Helen Wills, mum of teenagers and host of the Teenage Kicks podcast, about navigating the teenage years as a parent, letting go of control, and what we can learn from the adolescents in our lives.If you've ever wondered what happens if someone dies without family or money to deal with the aftermath, Evie King has written a book about exactly this, Ashes to Admin: Takes from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer. She chats to Hannah about the practicalities of planning a funeral and why it's good to keep death at the back of our mind.In Jenny Off The Blocks, Jen's chatting equal prize money, stupid stories, and alpine excellence, and for god's sake don't say his name three times – we're watching 1988's Beetlejuice in Rated or Dated.Meanwhile there's #Patygate, policing, and period pains in the Bush Telegraph – but does it taste of metal?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michelle and Liz are joined in this episode by Helen Wills who is the author behind the Actually Mummy website and the host of the Teenage Kicks podcast. A show that is all about navigating teen-related parenting issues. Covering subjects that other blogs, forums, and podcasts tend not to cover. Including self-harm, eating disorders, body image, schizophrenia, sexism, avoiding dating dangers, and much more. During this three women chatting, (2 women plus a Helen) episode, they discuss why she started the podcast, how it works and how it can help. As well as talking about some of the things Helen, as a midlife woman, does to remain energetic and healthy while looking after her two children and running two very busy businesses as she heads towards an empty nest. KEY TAKEAWAYS Your teenager going through some horrible life experiences does not mean that the rest of their life will also be awful. A lot of parents worry that talking about difficult subjects with their kids will give them ideas. The opposite is true, it is far healthier to be ready to talk about these things. Don´t feel you have failed as a parent if your teenager has serious issues. Don´t judge other parents who have children that do have problems. Teenagers are fantastic, don´t fear parenting a teenager. Using bright colours can lift your mood and help you to focus on the positives. If you see someone looking good in something, tell them. Most people love it. BEST MOMENTS  “There are 1000s of Facebook groups where you can talk about toilet training woes or sleepless nights, but not my child is self-harming, or my child has an eating disorder”. “I´ve done suicide first aid training and they say… you have to say the word…you have to talk about it... if it´s in their heads that is what gets them to open up.” “If I dress brightly and I´m surrounded by bright colours, I automatically think brightly.” “I did try a gratitude journal, but it made me feel really ungrateful that I had to fill this damn thing in every night.” “Say one nice thing a day (to someone), it takes zero effort, and it makes both people feel good”. If you enjoyed this episode, please rate, and review it on your podcast platform.  We read every email sent to us at twowomenchatting@gmail.com so please get in touch! Check out our supporting blogs on this topic at www.twowomenchatting.com. EPISODE RESOURCES   Teenage Kicks Podcast Teenage Kicks Podcast – Rosie – Self-Harming episode Helen Wills Instagram Helen's website Actually Mummy Dale Carnegie's books ABOUT THE HOSTS Liz Copping is a networking pro & event consultant, leaping out of her comfort zone to co-host this podcast. Lizcopping@outlook.com Insta @lizcoppingtwc Michelle Ford is a professional voice actor and empty nester pressing reset, enjoying a new career in podcasting. michelleford1000@gmail.com Insta @michellefordtwc CONTACT METHOD https://www.instagram.com/twowomenchatting/ https://twitter.com/ChattingTwo https://www.facebook.com/twowomenchatting PODCAST DESCRIPTION Join hosts Liz and Michelle redefining life over 50 as empty nesters, embracing the highs and lows of midlife with celebrity guests and experts, sharing a laugh on their podcast sofa. We talk about real concerns, issues, and fun topics that affect us, our friends, and our family.  Midlife is not just about the menopause (although we'd be the first to admit it's right up there!) but it is a time of adventure, change and reset - with plenty of opportunities and challenges along the way.  Whether we're chatting about ‘boomerang kids,' diet failures (and occasional successes!), pro-ageing, travel, changing relationships, or inspiration for new jobs or activities, there's always room for one more on our sofa.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What is modern slavery, why should we care, and what do we need to know to keep our teenagers safe? *This episode deals briefly with suicidal thoughts. If this is likely to be triggering for you, please skip this episode. Modern slavery is something we hear about on the news, but don't imagine it could happen to someone we love. I was struck by a conversation on another podcast - Two Women Chatting - about an incident that had happened to one of their adult daughters that felt like a narrow escape, so I wanted to cover the topic on Teenage Kicks. Hopefully being aware of the risks will help young adults and teenagers to avoid them, as well as knowing how to help other people who might be victims. Sujo John is an international motivational speaker and humanitarian who was launched into public speaking following his survival experience of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on New York's World Trade Centers. He's since set up YouCanFreeUs, an international human rights organisation fighting modern slavery worldwide, through advocacy, rescue and rehabilitation. In this podcast I ask Sujo why modern slavery is on the rise, why we should care, and what our children need to be aware of as they start out on their own journeys into adulthood. At one point in the podcast Sujo does some working out on a calculator as he's speaking. He's explaining how many men a trafficked sex worker will have to service in 15 years of doing the work (the average time they work). For audio only listeners, I want to share that that number was 160,000... Sujo is no stranger to trauma in his teenage years either, having had to come to terms with the death of his sister to leukaemia when he was just 9. He battled depression and thoughts of hopelessness, but describes his healing as he began to help others – something which he says he learned through having the opportunity to meet Mother Teresa. Who is Sujo John? Find out more about Sujo and his work here: Sujo's websiteThe YouCanFreeUs foundationOn instagram More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

"Severe acne affects your mental health far more than some medication ever will." Sarah Wood, mum of two young men and a teenage girl. Sarah Wood joins me on this episode to talk about her experience of teenage acne, how she coped, how she eventually treated it, and how she's supported all of her own teenagers through the same thing. Sarah first got acne when she was 12 and she still has it at 49. But nowadays she manages it with medication, and talks about how important it is to get the right treatment for acne if it's starting to affect your teenager's mental health. Sarah says that her own self-esteem took a double hit because she was already the 'clever' girl in school, with short hair - when the spots arrived, she gained the nickname "Zit-Slap". She talks about things getting better when other friends started to get spots, and she was streamed into top sets at school, so the 'clever' label didn't matter any more. However, when other kids' spots started to clear up and hers didn't, she knew she wanted to do something about it. Medication for teenage acne Sarah told me about oxytetracycline, a type of antibiotic that is usually the starting point for medication for teenage acne, once you've exhausted lotions and creams. Eventually, at the age of 40, she started taking Roaccutane, which all of her children have also taken at various times. Her son's acne developed from normal spots to huge lumps all over his face. Knowing how this could be dealt with, she took him straight to her dermatologist consultant and asked for Roaccutane. Sarah thinks there's too much scaremongering around the side-effects of Roaccutane. They range from birth defects if you take it during pregnancy (women and girls are advised to have a monthly pregnancy test whilst on the medication) to dry skin, dry eyes and muscular aches and pains. It can also (rarely) cause elevated cholesterol, so tests are done to monitor this. Sarah explains Roaccutane side-effects and how it works, and says that as parents the best thing we can do if our kids are struggling with self-esteem due to severe acne is push for a referral to a dermatologist, as this is the only way to have it prescribed, due to the monitoring required. Where to find Sarah Sarah is happy to talk about her experiences with severe acne. You can find her on: TwitterInstagramHer blog Mum of Three World Sarah has recently sent her middle child to university so we talk a little bit about the empty nest. You can get some hope on this stage from my episode on empty nesting. More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

Today's guest suffered huge anxiety as a teenager. After trying all the traditional medical remedies for stress, Devorah Goldblatt discovered something she never thought would work - EFT. EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Techniques and involves tapping on acupressure points to reduce emotional distress. It's an evidence-based treatment for anxiety, depression, PTSD and phobias that's backed up with solid research. Helen is a complete skeptic where alternative therapies are concerned, so when Devorah invited her into a live experiment of tapping, she was out of her comfort zone! Find out what happened when you listen to the podcast. Devorah explains how she was hospitalised with severe anxiety and PTSD as a teenager, following an assault. She says she had all the support possible, but still couldn't get past her depression and trauma. It took a "woo-woo" friend, who convinced her to give EFT a try, to open her eyes to her own ticket back to recovery. Devorah describes how "cringe" she found the class (speaking my language!) But she went along with it and to her amazement, her stress reduced noticeably - immediately. EFT can be practiced anywhere - Devorah explains how her teenage clients tap in the toilets at school before an exam, and in the car before a driving lesson. Listen to the podcast to hear how the process works, and what Helen's experience of tapping was. Who is Devorah Goldblatt? Devorah is a holistic counselor helping teens and early 20's overcome depression and anxiety with holistic modalities. Devorah's depression and anxiety resolved permanently after 3 months of holistic treatment -- and has never recurred in nearly 20 years. That's why she does the work she does. She believes passionately that when we tell people that the only way to heal anxiety and depression is with medication and mainstream therapy, we are doing them a huge disservice. She also believes that with the skyrocketing rates of anxiety and depression in our teens, it is unconscionable that we are not equipping every one of these kids with holistic tools that are now evidence-based treatments for depression and anxiety. Find out more about how to do EFT tapping: You can find links to Devorah's demonstration of how to do EFT tapping on her website.Find out more about the free tapping app where you can see the points to tap.Follow Devorah's teen counselling page on Facebook. You'll find more teen anxiety tips in these episodes: Listen to Emma's story of being hospitalised with depression in her teens.Find out how journalling can help teenagers with anxietyAnd if your teenager is taking exams at the moment, try these tips for helping them cope with exam nerves. More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

Is your teen dating? As a parent that's been one of my most confusing stages as a parent - how do you give your teenager privacy when they start dating, but still keep them safe? If you've ever wondered if your child's choice of partner might be unhealthy, this episode is for you. Liz Merrill is a relationship and mediation expert who specialises in helping people who are in narcissistic and abusive relationships. Liz recently set up a campaign to highlight to young people the red flags they should be aware of if something doesn't feel quite right in their relationship, something which I think we would rather our teens learn sooner rather than later. In this podcast episode Helen finds out from Liz what dating red flags we should be looking for as parents, and how to discuss these with our children. You can find more from Liz on Instagram, and on her website Openspace Mediation.  More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production. He gives some tips on what to look for, when not to worry, and when to get some professional support for your child's sleep problems. He also talks through some sleep tips that might help, and strategies to help your teenager feel better about their sleep and mental health.

On this guest episode of The Therapy Edit, Anna chats to Helen Wills, blogger at Actually Mummy and mum of teens about her One Thing that she'd tell all the other mums. And it's great news - Helen's one thing is that we should not be fearful of the teenage years!Helen set up her blog, Actually Mummy, 11 years ago when her children were small. You can enjoy it here https://actuallymummy.co.ukHelen also talks about parenting teens on her podcast, Teenage Kicks. You can listen here https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/teenage-kicks-podcast/id1501488455The podcast aims to show that families can and do get through hard things with their teens, and offers inspiration to parents dealing with similar stories to Helen's guests. Helen's Instagram @iamhelenwills is a mix of midlife stories (fashion with colour, not 'growing old gracefully' and sloping off into retirement) and her own thoughts on life with teenagers. You can also join Helen's Facebook group 'Teenage Kicks' where you can share the trials and tribulations of parenting teens. Here's the link https://www.facebook.com/groups/486393358908628

'Sleep Whisperer' Dr. Chris Winter talks to Helen about how to recognise sleep problems in our teenage children, and what they need us to do to help them. Dr. Chris says that he's seeing more and more incidences of sleep disturbance in his clinic, especially in teens and young adults. Who is Dr Chris Winter? Chris Winter is a sleep expert and specialist in sleep problems. His book The Rested Child* helps parents understand when children might need their help, and why it's not always helpful to focus on sleep hours. It's a comprehensive guide to the varied sleep disorders that affect children from infancy to adolescence, many of which are commonly misdiagnosed, offering new wisdom to parents about how to ease their child's troubles. More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production. He gives some tips on what to look for, when not to worry, and when to get some professional support for your child's sleep problems. He also talks through some sleep tips that might help, and strategies to help your teenager feel better about their sleep and mental health. *Affiliate link

Kellina Powell became deaf at the age of 4 due to an ear infection. Before that she had been a normally hearing child, so it was a massive shock to Kellina and her family. Kellina describes how hard day to day life was as a teenager. She says that it took her Grandma to step in and tell her to get on with life for her to change her mindset to her disability and gain the motivational attitude that's served her in her professional career. Who is Kellina Powell Kellina recently graduated with a psychology degree and is now starting her own online coaching business specialising in depression, anxiety, and self esteem for young people with disabilities. Her Instagram account @DeafQueenBoss advocates for people with disabilities and she's recently finished her first book Every Day I Am Just Deaf. She has proven that no matter what obstacles are in her way, she can overcome them. More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

The world is set up for dual parent families, says today's podcast guest author Sarah Thompson, who discovered all sorts of hurdles were placed in her way when she became a single mother. However, there is a silver lining, and Sarah has written a compelling book about everything she thinks her children have benefited from since their parents' separation. Listen to the podcast to find out why solo parenting can work out well even when you have teenagers. Here are some of the ways Sarah says her kids have benefitted from being raised by a single mother: ResilienceEmotional maturityOrganisationIndependence Listen to the podcast to find out how Sarah's teenagers have benefitted from their parents' separation. Sarah and I compare notes on the things that go wrong in our houses (think lost keys, crisps for dinner, and security issues) and agree that they're the same in all busy families - single parent or otherwise! We talk about allowing our kids to fail sometimes, and how they learn life lessons from that. Advice for single parents of teenagers Sarah's gives her best advice on how to cope when you become a single parent, including getting in touch with the charity Gingerbread. She says single motherhood is also a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with your female friends on a different level, as well as gaining new friendships. Who is Sarah Thompson? Sarah Thompson is a Sunday Times bestselling author and journalist. Sarah's features, on subjects ranging from parenting and divorce to sex, mental health and female friendship, have appeared in numerous publications including the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian and the Daily Mail. She's also written books about the perils of modern motherhood (You're So Mummy, published by Michael Joseph). Sarah is the (single) mother of two children and lives in Bridport, Dorset. Happy Single Mother is available in most bookstores and on Amazon (Affiliate link). More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

This episode is a little dose of comfort for anyone who has older teenagers and is staring in the face of a prospective empty nest. Liz and Michelle both have adult children, and have so many good things to say about their life since their kids left home for university. We discuss the fact that being over 50 isn't the end, and how learning new things is just part of the new normal for us as our kids move on. Liz and Michelle have reassuring words for anyone who fears that the eyerolls teenagers throw their parents' way are here to stay. They say their relationships with their adult children have really surprised them with how rewarding they are. They say that rather than feeling completely bereft when their children moved on, they were pleased to see them fly the nest and become their own adult selves. They stay in touch more than they did before via text and social media, and can be really supportive of their mums. We talk about competitive cooking when our kids get boyfriends and girlfriends and start to spend more time with a family other than your own - something which reassured me that I'm not the only one who turns into Gordon Ramsay when my kids are dating. Liz and Michelle also tell me about the importance of starting to reconnect with your partner before your kids leave so that it's less of a shock to the system when you find yourselves alone together after so long as a family. Who are Liz and Michelle? Their podcast Two Women Chatting was born when two neighbours got chatting and realised how much they had in common - and their kids told them they should put their conversations online. They talk about everything midlife and parenting teens, and have tackled issues like menopause, meningitis and self-care. More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

Do you have a narcissistic parent? Or has your child experienced narcissism in the family? Listen to this episode of Teenage Kicks to learn how to identify narcissistic parenting, and how to help your child heal from it. Marie Ellis Cook says that growing up with a narcissistic parent left her unable to accept love as an adult, and confused about her value. What it's like being a daughter with a narcissistic mother Marie says that when you're a child it can be difficult to see how a narcissistic mother destroys you. She assumed her mother's rage and lack of comfort was normal until she visited friends and realised how other parents behave towards their children. She thought love was a myth. Things narcissistic mothers say Here are some of the things a narcissistic parent might say: That never happenedYou're overreactingYou're gaining weight, you might want to watch what you eatYou owe me for everything I do for youStop crying or I'll give you something to cry aboutYou don't care about meI can't understand where I went wrong with youYou're uselessDon't talk rubbish Marie's mother went one step further by blaming her daughter for her own feelings. This is called parentification, where a parent offloads adult problems and feelings on their child, expecting them to take responsibility for their parent's emotions. Marie's mother regularly complained to her daughter about her own problems, and expected her to give comfort. Confronting a narcissistic mother Marie describes the process of standing up to her narcissistic mother as counter-productive. She was met with denial and defensiveness, and says that it's usually a hopeless endeavour. Healing from narcissistic parenting When Marie left to go to university she struggled to know where she fit in. She was used to conforming, to getting things wrong, to knowing that she was unacceptable. She eventually realised that she suffered from codependency, and sought help in the form of therapy. Who is Marie Ellis Cook? Marie was born and raised in Singapore and currently lives in the United States. She is the daughter of a narcissistic mother. After discovering her mother's narcissism, she learnt to break free from narcissistic control and overcame the bonds of family enmeshment. She left the corporate world to help people from toxic families get unstuck & find their authentic selves. She is now a narcissist recovery and marriage counsellor helping others to deal with a narcissistic parent.  More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

What do you know about bias? The chances are, if you're a white British parent who doesn't have to use a food bank, you know much less than your teenager. And I'd wager that if you have teens, they will understand much more about bias than you do. In fact, my own teenagers have been instrumental in my own learning curve as I've discovered unconscious bias not just in myself and my family, but all around me in the world. So what do you need to know about bias as the parent of a teenager? If this resonates, you will love this episode with Caryn Franklin, MBE, and Professor Keon West about their new audiobook SKEWED, where they shed light on the millions of messages in the media that we absorb every day, without even noticing. They hope that by listening to the book we'll all be able to notice these biases and know them for what they are. Which, quite aside from being a good thing to do, will help us understand and converse with our teenagers more easily. But how does understanding bias help make us better parents? In a series of interviews, the book tackles the issues parents are already beginning to challenge, like: Dads Don't Cry?  – exploring male vulnerability and bringing up sons who don't fear tears.Bringing up girls to understand and reject the hormonal payloadAre there harmful messages hidden in children's entertainment? Why don't white parents want to talk about race? This is not a book or a podcast that aims to chastise anyone for the way they think or operate. Instead, it attempts to open our eyes to aims to help open our eyes to how bombarded we are with biases, stereotypes and agendas that we unconsciously absorb every day, and to challenge cultural messaging around identity and objectification, including race, gender, gender non-conformity, sexual orientation, age, and attractiveness. You won't be left with a sense that you're not good enough; instead you'll be equipped to question more, notice more, and be able to rethink the things you've always taken for granted (for example fairy stories that normalise a world where it's okay to kiss an unconscious girl in the woods). Caryn Franklin MBE, fashion editor and later former presenter of BBC TV's iconic Clothes Show says "Keon and I wanted to challenge human propensity to absorb bias and the stereotypes our omnipresent and evermore powerful media presents. And just as importantly we wanted to explore our own biases, investigate the origins and unpick the comforting falsehoods we all sometimes tell ourselves”. Professor Keon West is a Social Psychologist at Goldsmiths, University of London and an expert on identity, prejudice, and representation. Keon opened my eyes to a completely different way of recognising bias in myself and others, and what it can teach me about my own relationships. Find out more about SKEWED: Decoding media bias on Caryn's website. You will also find the book on Audible via Amazon (affiliate links). More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

*Please be aware that this post contains references to self-harm and suicide. When Brenda realised her 11 year old daughter Faith was sexting with an older boy she was shocked. Over the next few years Faith continued to send nudes on her phone and became suicidal, despite her parents' best efforts to support and guide their daughter. Brenda says she eventually realised this: you can't control your child's behaviour, or their pain. Letting go of your own goals as a parent, and acknowledging your child's pain is the best you can do to support your child to find their own way through the trama they're struggling with. It's easy for all of us to assume we've done enough; that the horror stories in the media belong to other families, not those of us who've worked really hard on our parenting and consider ourselves well informed. But they did a great job, and Faith still embarked on a relationship with her mental health that saw her sexting, self-harming, and even attempting suicide. Here's a wake up call for parents (like me) who think they've done everything right, and this won't happen to their children - Brenda and her husband did everything right. Faith says her parents were very sex positive and had discussed porn, self-esteem and coercive control openly. But she started sexting in 6th grade when she got her first mobile phone, around the age most UK children are starting secondary school, and she refused to stop. Faith says it's not just great parenting that makes a happy life for a child. Our children are born with their own inherent problems. She first had suicidal thoughts at the age of 9, and it's still the knee-jerk thought process she goes to during times of stress. Ultimately Brenda wasn't able to change Faith's behaviour, so she and her husband focused on supporting Faith's mental health through counselling and acceptance of how she was feeling. The turning point was when Brenda acknowledged how unhappy her daughter was and openly talked about her suicidal feelings with her. Find out how that conversation went by listening to the podcast. Who are Faith and Brenda? Brenda Ferber is crisis counselor and an award-winning children's book author based in Florida. When she's not writing, reading, or talking to kids about books, she's likely playing tennis or golf, seeing live theater, spending time with her husband and their three fabulous children, or counseling people through Crisis Text Line. Her daughter, Faith Ferber, is a Licensed Master Social Worker working as a therapist in Washington DC. She is also an anti-sexual violence activist, writer, and speaker, and she's a proud member of the LGBTQIA community. You can watch the video of Brenda's decision to send Faith to Wilderness Therapy in the accompanying blog post, where you will also find the story I mention in the podcast about the pivotal talk she had with her daughter about suicide. Crisis Text Line UK 85258US 741741 More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

Welcome to a brand new series Parenting teens isn't always roses, and sometimes it can feel like the hardest thing in the world. But there's always a positive behind the tough times, even if it's difficult to see. In this series Helen hears more tough stories about the teenage years, and how families have navigated their way through them. You'll hear from Brenda and her daughter Faith, who began sexting at the age of 11 and went on a very difficult journey with her mental health. Marie describes her recovery from growing up with a narcissistic parent, and Kellina who lives with a disability. There are also fascinating episode on bias and discrimination, from Caryn Franklin MBE and Prof. Keon West, a deep dive into relationship red flags parents should know when their teens start dating, and tips from a sleep expert on how to get your teenager to sleep better. The first guest airs tomorrow. Be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts so you don't miss it! Who is Helen Wills? Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. I love to hear from listeners, and I'm always looking for new stories to tell about challenges in the teenage years. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from me on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

Part 2 - Well you've dropped them off… and there's a gap in your life. Don't be defined by your kids. This is the time to redefine your life, find new purpose, connect with your spouse, and enjoy less laundry!We look at ways to cope and offer some tips and ideas on how to start looking at the positive aspects of being an empty nester - whilst being realistic about the effects on the family left behind.With contributions from Celia Dodd, author of The Empty Nest, Dr Dominique Thompson of Buzz Consulting, Helen Wills, author of Actually Mummy blog and host of Teenage Kicks podcast, Suzanne Baum, lifestyle editor and celebrity interviewer, a dads eye view from actor Dave Keeling and Two Women Chatting listeners, Natalie, Caroline and Steph who all have a different perspective.For more information please email twowomenchatting@gmail.com. Follow us on instagram @twowomenchatting on Twitter @ChattingTwo or join our Facebook page. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

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This week on the podcast we are going to dig into parenting tweens and teens during difficult times, like health challenges. I am excited to welcome Helen Wills who is a Blogger at Actually Mummy and has a podcast aimed at taking the fear out of parenting teens called Teenage Kicks Podcast. Helen will give us information on what she has learned walking this journey with her child. Contact Helen:  Instagram - @iamhelenwills https://actuallymummy.co.uk/ #type1diabetes #diabetes #autoimmune #autoimmunewarrior #mindset #anxiety  #stress #burnout #stressmanagement #emotionalhealth #triggers #podcaster #podcast #counselling #therapy #mentalhealth #parenting #parentingteens #tweens #teens #mentalhealth #parentingadvice As always, this podcast is based on experiences and should not be construed as medical or professional advice. Please speak with your own medical professional. ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­_____________________________________________ ADs: Pendulum by S.E. German My middle-grade fiction novel Pendulum by S.E. German is available on FriesenPress, Barnes and Noble, Amazon Worldwide (Amazon.com,  Amazon.ca) and more! Ben struggles with his mental health following an infection. He visits countless doctors and endures endless treatments all while trying to manage middle grade trials like his family moving, his first crush and playing competitive sports. This heartwarming story will build empathy and give you a glimpse into how Ben creates hope for the future.   Contact me for speaking engagements in schools, libraries and community events (reallifeproject@gmail.com). Please subscribe, review & share this Podcast! KO-FI You can support the Learning to Slay the Beasts podcast through Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/learningtoslaythebeasts Connect with me IG: @saraladygluten , TikTok @saraladygluten and visit My Author/Podcaster Website: www.se-german.com  Visit my Amazon Storefront for recommendations:  https://www.amazon.com/shop/saraladygluten Sign up for the email list and receive a free Self-Care Calendar! Blog: www.theallergybeast.wordpress.com This post contains affiliate links.

One of the biggest issues for parents of teens is figuring out what's “normal” teenage behaviour and when their child might need some extra support. I talk to parenting expert, blogger, podcaster and influencer, Helen Wills, about how parents can support teenagers through the many different challenges that they face during adolescence. We also touch on another big issue for midlife mums, which can be just as confusing and challenging as parenting a teenager: noticing the signs of and managing the symptoms of menopause. —- RESOURCES AND LINKS Watch our FREE WORKSHOP “How to Parent A Teenage Brain" HERE: https://www.ologyonlinecourses.com/workshop Helen Willls Blog - https://actuallymummy.co.uk/ Teenage Kicks Podcast - https://actuallymummy.co.uk/welcome-to-the-teenage-kicks-podcast/

In this episode Helen Wills talks to social media guru Nickie O'Hara about her experiences of bullying as a teenager. Shockingly, Nickie was first picked on by a teacher, and the social stigma went from there. Nickie is now also a running mentor, and told me about how being athletic as a teenager led to her having some body image issues, and how she dealt with them at the time. We discuss how different parents handle bullying and friendship issues when their kids are teenagers, and the pros and cons of teens using social media. It's a heartwarming and reassuring conversation about how friendships change over the years. If this is you now, Nickie says you will get through it. Where to find Nickie @nickieohara on Twitter and InstagramRead her blog TYPECASTListen to running podcast The First 10 Minutes Are The WorstListen to her radio show Something for the Weekend on Ribble FM We also talk about other accounts @pinkoddy and @stephstwogirls. More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

This episode of the the Teenage Kicks podcast deals with a very sensitive issue. Helen Wills talks to Jill Hawkins about the death of Jill's mother when she was just 15 and in her GCSE year at school. Jill's mum was diagnosed with a brain tumour just before Christmas, and died in January. She was just 57. Jill went into school the next day, because she couldn't think of anything else to do. Jill says that in hindsight she knows she was suffering from depression, but didn't want to face up to her loss. Instead she distracted herself by staying out with friends or working. Home didn't feel like home after her mum died. Things we discuss: Talking about the person who has died is really important for recovery.Whether it's harder or easier when someone dies suddenly, or if there's time for long goodbyes.Missing out on an adult relationship with your parent.How difficult it is to face up to your feelings following a bereavement.How the death of a parent forms your own parenting when you become a mother.Anything is recoverable in your life. Write your life one line at a time, and don't worry when plans need to change, because it's all part of your story. Who is Jill Hawkins? Jill Hawkins has 20 years' experience handling PR and content creation for companies within the event industry. Jill was formerly a founding partner and director of Friday's Media Group – founded in 1999. Clients current and past include CHS Group, The Meetings Show, RefTech, International Confex, The Queen Elizabeth II Centre, De Vere Group plc, Eventia, BI, Sledge, and Warwick Conferences.  You can connect with Jill via her website, on LinkedIn and Twitter. You can also join her networking group. More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

In this episode of the podcast Helen Wills talks to author Toni Hargis, a mum of a teenage girl who still experiences the same sexism she did as a teenager. Toni - along with Susanna Scott and Jennifer Howze of Britmums - has written How to Stand Up to Sexism, Words for When Enough is Enough. We discuss the microaggressions that lead to bigger acts of sexism, both in the workplace, and in girls' personal lives, and what women and girls can do to stop them in their tracks. Toni, Jen and Susanna offer practical advice to be used in a multitude of situations, as well as outlining what the law says in each case. Who is Toni Hargis? Toni Summers Hargis is an author and columnist. With a law degree and a Masters in Organisation Development under her belt, she spent years working in corporate HR, Training and Organisation Consulting. Always ardent and vocal about women's rights and equality, Toni was termed “difficult” in many a meeting and strives to continue in that vein, calling out sexist BS at every turn. She has written about women's rights issues for the past several years at Huffington Post, Medium and the BritMums website. She also blogged as Expat Mum during her years living in the USA. You can find Toni here: Toni on TwitterToni's website tonisummershargis.co.uk.  How to Stand Up to Sexism book.Buy the book at Amazon (affiliate link). More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

In this episode we hear from Helen Wills who started her blog Actually Mummy in 2011. This was when she realised that talking to the four walls and a baby was never going to be enough. Since then she has earned a reputation as a professional and innovative writer, crafting stories and video for high profile brand campaigns such as Mark Warner, Universal Studios, Heinz and Tefal. Now a full time blogger, podcaster and presenter, Helen's work has also led to some high profile speaking opportunities at Parliament, and with the BBC, which she says are the best part of her job! Check out Helen's podcast Teenage Kicks on all podcast platforms. @thebcma Presented by @gordonglenister Produced by Neil Whiteside at Freedom:ONE

In this Expert Guest episode of the Teenage Kicks podcast Helen Wills talks to Wendy Lund about how mindfulness and gratitude can help to change a teen's mindset and their outcomes. Most importantly, Wendy gives parents easy tips on helping teenagers to develop a gratitude habit that doesn't involve meditating, journalling or spending time talking about their feelings! Helen says "This episode was like therapy to record. Honestly, even if you take none of the advice to recreate with your teen, it's worth a listen for your own wellbeing!" Teenagers don't have time to listen to adults insisting that they need to spend time on their mental health. But as parents we can encourage them into daily practices that help them see what's good about their lives. What are the benefits of gratitude? Wendy says "practicing any positive emotion... builds neuronal pathways in the brain... and if you're busy doing those you cannot be busy with thoughts of anxiety and depression... Thoughts produce our emotions, which drive our behaviour." So it's incremental. It improves your mental healthPromotes proactive and prosocial behaviourDecreases materialismDecreases narcissismDecreases depression and anxietyImproves academic scoresImproves life satisfaction scoresImproves compassion Mindfulness resources from Wendy: Make Stress Your Friend - a brilliant TED talk by Kelly McGonigalVideo: An Experiment in Gratitude: The Science of Happiness. (Get ready for tears - happy ones!)Gratitude: a short film by Louie SchwartzbergGratitude questionnaires and scales that scientists useYou might also like this episode with Ryan Gallagher on recovering from PTSD after the death of his father.This episode with digital parenting expert Elizabeth Milovidov on bonding with your teens is also useful. Who is Wendy Lund? Wendy is the founder of Wellth Management, an organisation committed to helping people redefine wealth through wellness. With an MSc in Mindfulness Studies, and following a career as a Professor of Health Sciences, Wendy helps individuals and organisations using evidence-based theory and strategies to create wellness and build stress tolerance. Wendy on InstagramWendy's Twitter page More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

If you're on Instagram, you'll probably know today's guest for colourful illustrations and mindful musings on supporting our own wellbeing. In episode 44 Helen Wills talks to Stacie Swift about how to convince teenagers to start journaling to develop positive mental health practices. Stacie is a mum of three, and an illustrator who creates the prettiest posts, with the most gorgeous words on wellbeing and self-care. She's now published a book - The Positively Awesome Journal (affiliate link) – to inspire people to start journaling, and it's characteristically both GORGEOUS to look at, and thought provoking and inspiring to work through. As Stacie says, the journal is "A reminder that you matter too.” And THAT is something that I think we're all in need of remembering, every day. How journaling supports teen mental health Stacie says she turned to her drawings and musings when she was a teenager herself, and found it gave her space for her own feelings, to process difficult things in her life, and feel better equipped to tackle daily problems. All of us feel pressure to focus on "doing better," on what we did wrong, and teenagers have more pressure on them than ever before. Stacie's journal encourages time spent looking at our achievements, and the things that are good in our lives, as well as giving space to acknowledging when life is difficult. She describes journaling as an anchor in life. Designed to promote and encourage mental well-being, it is the perfect pick-me-up to help keep you uplifted, motivated and understood. You can finally write that ‘not-to-do' list, prioritise your tasks, learn how to set social media boundaries, make your own luck, complete a feeling forecast, create a dream log, fill out a meal plan, give thanks, celebrate your progress and find plenty of room for self-reflection - all in one safe place. Stacie is very down to earth, and describes herself as a work in progress where wellbeing is concerned, so she's very easy to listen to. Have a listen to the episode for all her wisdom. You can find more from Stacie Swift here: Stacie's websiteStacie on InstagramFacebookBuy the Positively Awesome Journal More teenage parenting inspiration from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

In the first episode of the Meet the Parents series Helen Wills Talks to Gill Mann about the death of her son Sam from Schizophrenia. What is schizophrenia? Schizophrenia is a mental health condition related to psychosis. People with a diagnosis of schizophrenia have episodes of psychosis, where they experience a different reality to others around them. They may have hallucinations, delusion, or hear voices. Who is Gill Mann? Gill Mann is a psychotherapist and author. She started her working life as a lawyer but finally was brave enough to follow her heart and re-train as a therapist. She has worked within the NHS, a university counselling service and in private practice. Writing has always been Gill's other passion but in 2014 it became a lifeline, when she learned that her son, Sam had died while travelling overseas. For two years she kept a journal, writing about him and her grieving. She found herself addressing Sam too -there was so much still to say. When another bereaved mother read Gill's journal,she urged her to publish it, saying it had made her feel much less alone. Gill's memoir, A Song Inside, was published by Retreat West Books in July 2020. We talk about: So many people live with schizophrenia very bravely, as the medications to manage it can have debilitating side effectsAround half of people with schizophrenia don't have an awareness that there's anything wrong, which can make treatment even more distressing, for themselves and for the people who love them.Managing grief after a diagnosis is important. Gill says you need to allow yourself to feel the pain, but also acknowledge the good things that still areConditions don't define a person. We need to look beyond a person's illness to see the person they are alongside it. Find out more about the book Read more about Sam and Gill at gillmannauthor.co.ukBuy the book on Amazon UK, US (affiliate links) or at your local independent bookstore. Where to get support for schizophrenia and psychosis Epic minds explains more about psychosis for anyone who is worriedMind mental health charity on psychosisInformation on psychosis from Rethink Mental Health More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

This is the second episode of the Teenage Kicks mini-series with The Girl's Network, a UK mentoring charity set up to inspire and empower girls from the least advantaged communities by connecting them with a mentor and and a network of professional female role models. Helen Wills talks to 17 year old Farheen Khan, from Tower Hamlets, about her work with the Met Police to change the futures of people in her community suffering the effects of domestic violence. Farheen is mentoring a senior commissioner in the police force to share her own experiences of life amongst her local community, to influence campaigns that will help more people feel empowered to leave abusive homes. About the Met Police scheme with the Girl's Network The Met Police got involved with the Girl's Network in 2018, providing female mentors for teenage girls in the least advantaged communities, but the process has now been reversed with the launch of a girl-led mentoring scheme for the police. The objective is for these young women to have their voices heard, gain a platform, develop their confidence, and represent their communities. Farheen says that she used to be shy and underconfident, but being part of The Girl's Network has inspired her to be more certain of her own potential. She now feels capable of influencing at a senior level to effect real change on the ground. If the scheme is a success, it will be rolled out across other London boroughs. Where to get support with domestic violence The Met Police has a list of useful support helplinesYou can get information on your rights from the Citizen's Advice BureauRefuge also have a helplineVictim Support's London helpline More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

Today is the first in a mini-series with The Girl's Network, a UK mentoring charity set up to inspire and empower girls from the least advantaged communities by connecting them with a mentor and and a network of professional female role models. Helen Wills speaks to Ishrat Hussain about how being mentored through the Girl's Network has led to her becoming a mentor herself at the age of 18 - and to a senior member of the Met Police in London! We talk about gang culture and knife crime in one the most disadvantaged areas of London, Newham, where Ishrat grew up. Ishrat knew two teenagers who have died in the last year as a result of knife crime. Ishrat's family immigrated to the UK from Bangladesh in the 1970s. Her mum got her involved in local politics from a young age, taking her to polling stations. Now Ishrat has a place at University to study politics, and is hoping to engage in community lobbying and activism to influence outcomes for young people in communities like hers. Listen to the podcast to hear her remarkable insights into why there is such distrust between young people and the police in her community, and what she thinks needs to be done about it. About the Met Police scheme with the Girl's Network The Met Police got involved with the Girl's Network in 2018, providing female mentors for teenage girls in the least advantaged communities, but the process has now been reversed with the launch of a girl-led mentoring scheme for the police. The objective is for these young women to have their voices heard, gain a platform, develop their confidence, and represent their communities. Ishrat says "Two years ago I was shy and lacked confidence. Now I am mentoring senior officers at the Met Police as part of a pilot campaign." If the scheme is a success, it will be rolled out across other London boroughs. More on London's knife crime problems The Conversation - causes and solutions to knife crimeGovernment knife crime strategy report 2017 More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional. Podcast produced by James Ede at Be Heard production.

Helen Wills talks to Louise Williams about her life with undiagnosed ADHD, and getting a diagnosis as an adult during the pandemic. We started this conversation with a discussion about the pros and cons of social media, and how there have been more diagnoses of ADHD during the pandemic. Louise thinks this is partly because more people have spotted the signs in themselves as they've seen others sharing, and partly because the boredom of lockdown has been particularly hard on those with the symptoms of the condition. Louise explains that ADHD is a condition where not enough dopamine is produced in the brain. People with ADHD often seek dopamine 'hits' in the form of social engagements or unhealthy habits like binge-eating or drinking. ADHD may present differently in women At first Louise didn't equate her symptoms with those of ADHD, because she had the stereotype in her mind of a small boy bouncing off the classroom walls. But she explains how differently it can manifest in girls and women, which is often why it goes undiagnosed. In addition, ADHD symptoms are exacerbated by fluctuating hormones, so teenage years and menopause are classic times for a diagnosis in women. Louise also told me that people often have their concerns of ADHD dismissed by the medical profession because they're high achievers. She says people with ADHD absolutely can do well at school or in their career, they've just had to work harder than most to get there. Rejection-Sensitive Dysphoria We also talked about Rejection-Sensitive Dysphoria, an aspect of ADHD which sees people struggle to deal with the slightest indication of criticism or negativity from those in their lives. Who is Louise Williams? Louise is a 37 year old writer and mum of two children, a daughter aged 10 and a son aged 8. She loves to travel, take the kids on adventures and review festivals and holiday destinations. She also has a company teaching blogging to others, Top Blog Coaching. In her spare time she loves photography and walking, mostly found with her dog Hendrix. Diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, Louise has been sharing her life changing story in an effort to raise awareness and reach others in a similar situation to her.  Where to find Louise Read Louise's adult ADHD diagnosis storyLouise on Instagram and TikTokJoin Louise's ADHD support group on Facebook If you need more support with ADHD See the signs that you might have ADHDJoin an adult ADHD Facebook groupTake this online ADHD quiz for women. More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.

In the third episode of this mini-series on ADHD in teens Helen Wills speaks to Julia Langensiepen about how parents can support their teenager with an ADHD diagnosis. Julia's sound was a bit glitchy, but it's worth persevering with the episode, as Julia has so many positive things to say about people with ADHD - it's a truly inspiring account of the positives of living with ADHD, as well as the difficulties that need to be managed. Who is Julia Langensiepen? After a 12 year career as a French and German teacher in the secondary sector Julia retrained to work with the human condition and set up her own coaching practice Nurturinglife.co.uk in 2008.  Julia says she works intuitively with whoever and whatever presents; mental break down, work/life balance, anxiety, stress, addictive behaviour, depression and trauma.  She has recently seen a growing number of individual clients showing characteristics of an ADHD brain. During lockdown she set up webinars for parents of teens with an ADHD diagnosis. Resources on ADHD Julia mentioned a few resources that might help families understand their family member with ADHD (affiliate links): The Scattered Brain by Gabor MatéA Hunter in a Farmer's World by Thom Hartmann You can also find out more about Julia's course, and supporting your child with ADHD on her website Nurturing Life, and by connecting with her on Facebook. More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.

Episode 2 of the Teenage Kicks ADHD mini-series sees Helen Wills talk to Lacey Small about how it feels to be a University student with ADHD. Lacey says she finds it difficult to talk to people about how she's feeling, because nobody really understands what she's dealing with. Growing up, Lacey - like lots of children with ADHD - thought she was "stupid." She spelled words phonetically, and couldn't grasp times tables at junior school. Lacey says “Discovering I had ADHD was like an epiphany, it's like my own little super power that helps me see the world in a unique perspective.” ADHD at University Lacey struggled to move away from the comfort zone of home, as she finds it emotionally exhausting to engage with her peers. Lacey also finds external stimuli distressing, so going to the pub, or being on a busy street has caused her to cry and melt down in social situations. Regarding her studies, Lacey says that her ADHD tendency to think outside the box makes academic study difficult, even though it's great for creativity and problem solving. ADHD during the pandemic Lacey says that having to work remotely during Covid-19 has made her ADHD even more difficult to manage. Without the regular input of lectures and engagement with tutors, she has struggled to maintain focus, and her mental health has suffered. She says we need to give more thought to supporting students who've felt isolated by remote learning. Types of ADHD Lacey described the 3 typical presentations of ADHD as she understands them: Attentive - these are the people who are good at masking and people-pleasing, and who try to fit in with others. This is more common in girls.Inattentive - people with inattentive ADHD are less aware of social boundaries and might be labelled 'naughty' at school.Combined - where sufferers know they don't react like others, but are confused as to why. Why it's important to get an ADHD Diagnosis Getting her diagnosis recently has helped Lacey's tutors and coursemates to understand where she's coming from, so it's been a huge relief. She says that an earlier diagnosis of ADHD might have saved her a lot of stress, especially around friendships and exams. Recommended support for students with ADHD Help Guide on ADHDCounselling Directory for ADHDADD Symptoms in Women More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.

Ein Gespräch zwischen Helen und mir, in dem wir über ihre manifestierten Träume bis zu den Schwierigkeiten im Showbusiness sprechen. Lasst euch von ihrem Mindset inspirieren und nehmt diese Folge als Motivation mit euren eigenen Zielen gleich jetzt sofort zu beginnen. Instagram: @helenwills_

This episode starts a new mini-series on ADHD. Helen Wills talks to Ella Tabb from Purple Ella about her family's diagnoses of autism and ADHD, including her own diagnosis at the age of 36. What is ADHD? ADHD is a neurological condition that affects mood and behaviour. It's often diagnosed in childhood, but can persist into adulthood, with adult diagnoses becoming more common. Symptoms of ADHD Symptoms can vary, and are often different in women and men. Boys are sometimes diagnosed during school years due to restlessness and impulsive behaviour (hyperactive ADHD), while girls often mask their symptoms, trying to live up to school expectations. As a result they are more likely to find it hard to focus, pay attention , and remember details. Ella talks about how it was only when getting a diagnosis of ADHD for her daughter that she recognised the symptoms in herself. Here's what we discussed: She was labelled difficult, naughty and weird during her school years.She was bullied at secondary school and suffered low self-esteem.Her strong moral code meant she would say things out loud that other teenagers might ridicule.Ella describes herself as having no filter between her brain and her mouth. She talked AT people rather than with them.This would make her panic after a conversation that she may have offended people.Aspects of the ADOS test used to diagnose autism and ADHD - Ella was asked do you struggle with queues, can you watch a sunset, do you have intense interests? What should parents do if they think their child might have ADHD? Ella details a great set of resources to arm yourself with the knowledge you need to decide whether to pursue a diagnosis. She says it's important to write down the categories that fit ADHD with as much evidence as you can before visiting your GP. Parents do need to intervene. Ella says as a teenager with ADHD she couldn't see what her own problems were. She just felt really bad about herself and didn't understand that there was more to it. Scroll down for organisations that can help. Who is Purple Ella? Purple Ella is a disabled content creator with a focus on autism and ADHD. She draws on her experience of her own life as an autistic adult with ADHD and as the mother to three children who are all neurodivergent. She says "all behaviour is communication" and wants all neurodivergent people to know that they are perfect just the way they are. Ella also lives with her husband, her assistance dog Coco and her cat Katsu.  Where to find support and advice on getting an ADHD diagnosis Ella's YouTube channel Purple EllaPurple Ella and Coco on TikTokElla on InstagramHow to ADHD on YouTubeNational Autistic SocietyADDitude MagazineCounselling for ADHDThe Pomodoro Technique Listen to the podcast for more information and advice from Ella on everything from getting a diagnosis to techniques to help with concentration at school when you have ADHD. More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.

In this episode of Tennis Re-Lived we venture back one hundred years to cover the remarkable career and life of tennis’ first superstar, Suzanne Lenglen, whose name now adorns the second show court at Roland Garros. We talk about her upbringing by an overbearing father, how the war both delayed her career and created a world which was ready for her, the extraordinary records she achieved in amateur tennis, her boundary breaking fashion choices, the reasons why she was so famous, her controversial decision to turn professional, and her lasting legacy in tennis. Along the way we cover some of the landmark moments of her career, including her memorable first and last appearances at Wimbledon, her ill-fated trip to America in 1921, and her match of the century against Helen Wills in 1926. The Tennis Podcast is presented by Catherine Whitaker and David Law, and features Matt Roberts. It is produced weekly year-round, and daily during the Grand Slam tournaments. It is crowdfunded by listeners each December.Coming soon: Roland Garros Re-Lived: Jim Courier and daily French Open podcasts. SUPPORT THE TENNIS PODCASTWe crowdfund The Tennis Podcast every December, with shout-outs, mascots and chances to take us on at predictions. For a reminder when the next campaign goes live, put your e-mail address in here - http://eepurl.com/gwWILXOr, if you don’t want to wait and prefer to support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/TheTennisPodcastNEWSLETTERSign up to get our news, offers, predictions and Matt’s Stat - http://eepurl.com/gbmzRXEMAILWe hope that the podcast helps to provide some form of escape during these challenging times. If you ever feel like writing to us, our e-mail is open – info@tennispodcast.netSOCIAL MEDIA Twitter - https://twitter.com/TennisPodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/thetennispodcast/Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/thetennispodcast/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today’s episode is going to be relevant to you if you (or your daughter) suffers from very heavy periods. Helen Wills talks to Fi Star Stone, who suffered with extreme heavy periods from the age of 15 when her periods began, to the point where it was affecting her quality of life, and her ability to be at school. She was eventually diagnosed with endometriosis and polycystic ovaries, but she says that not all heavy bleeding like hers will have the same causes. Fi talks about how much is too much, what the symptoms of endometriosis are, and what help is available to young girls who have heavy periods with no clinical cause. It’s a really honest chat, and Fi gives a lot of hope to teenage girls who might be feeling like they have to suffer in silence. What medications help with heavy periods? Your GP might first of all prescribe Tranexamic Acid, which helps to slow down bleeding, and Naproxen, a strong anti-inflammatory to help with the pain. If these don't help sufficiently, girls might be put on the pill to either reduce the severity of periods, or stop them altogether. Why it's important to go to the doctor if your periods are unmanageable Very heavy, painful periods might be a sign of an underlying condition like endometriosis, which can damage your fertility if left untreated. A simple ultrasound scan can see whether this, or polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) might be an issue. Who is Fi Star Stone? Fi Star-Stone is a bestselling author, qualified parenting advisor, child sleep consultant, and regular contributor to parenting media. She’s also a mum of two little ones born less than a year apart. Fi is a specialist speaker on childcare and parenting issues on the BBC, and a regular face on Mother&Baby IGTV lives. Fi also co-hosts a podcast ‘Self(ish)’ which takes a look at the importance of finding ‘me time’ when there is no time!You can find more from Fi below: Fi's books on Amazon (affiliate link)TwitterInstagramFi's website The Regular ParentThe Self(ish) Podcast Regular Parent Podcast More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: Helen wills is a teen mental health podcaster and blogger at Actually Mummy a resource for midlife parents of teens. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear new episodes. If you have a suggestion for the podcast please email teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. There are already stories from fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.

Today's guest on the Teenage Kicks podcast is Hazel Davis, a journalist from West Yorkshire in the UK. Hazel opens up to Helen Wills about how she 'acted out' in her teenage years as a response to being bullied at school. She describes herself as "that child" who everyone avoided. Her way of coping with being unwanted was to become non-conformist. She says she was promiscuous, aggressive and a terrible liar. She says "If people weren't going to like me, fancy me... I was going to make sure that at least they noticed me." Hazel now describes herself as one of the most laid-back and well-balanced people she knows. She tells how she made that change. We talk about: How we are never perceived by others the way we think we are - listen to Hazel's story of befriending one of her bullies on Facebook to find out more.That what people put out into the world isn't always who they really are, and how there's always something else going on beneath the surface.That no one has their shit together - even the adults! So teenagers need to cut themselves some slack if they're comparing themselves to others.Education isn't over when you leave school. Sometimes the most valuable lessons are learned later in life - have a listen to Hazel's incredible tale of what happened after she left school (I actually think she should write a novel based on it!)Sometimes being a bit different is the best thing you can be. It might be the reason you eventually land that amazing job, figure out your purpose, or meet the love of your life.Why we shouldn't mistake sex for love/respect/validation. Think about how it's making you feel, and only do it if it's making you feel good. Hazel also has a lovely message at the end of the episode for teenagers who might be feeling like they don't fit in (yet). Listen to the end to hear her inspiring advice. Books that might help a teen figure out who they are (affiliate links) How to Make Anyone Like You - Leil LowndesCounselling for Toads - Robert de BoardFamilies and How to Survive Them - John Cleese and Dr. Robin Skinner Who is Hazel Davis? Hazel Davis writes for a range of publications, including the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Times and FT, on a variety of subjects from small business to music. She also works as a media consultant and trainer and runs Muse Flash, a media training and copywriting agency. She has two children, plays trumpet, violin and sings. She recently passed her grade 8 singing and she's very proud of herself

My guest in this episode knows a thing or two about low self-esteem! Raised in a strict Irish Catholic family, Amanda Ryall never felt like she fitted in at home or at school. Helen Wills talks to Amanda about how he struggled with academic work and thought of herself as 'stupid,' eventually seeking validation in the views of others for her self-worth. Amanda eventually realised that the needy behaviour she used to get attention as as child didn't work in the adult world, and set about changing her outlook on life and her own happiness. We talk about: How we unknowingly take on our family narrative, and how it impacts our thought processes.Labelling, and the self-perpetuating nature of our own perceptions.The conflict between academic pressure and being an individual that makes school expectations so difficult to navigate whilst holding onto who you are.Showing up in the world and making your actions count in other ways than through academic merit.How for some jobs the best person isn't necessarily the one with the most academic qualifications. Resilience, strength and perseverance count for just as much.How freeing it is to know that there isn't just one path to success.How spending time on yourself isn't selfish, and how freeing ourselves from the pressure of the "to-do" list helps us control stress and improve self-esteem.The value of unconnected timea alone, and how to listen to your inner (real) voice instead of your ego's expectations of you.How to fill your own void rather than waiting for someone/something else to do it for you. Who is Amanda Ryall? Amanda is the best-selling author of I Choose Me, and creator of the Mood Munchers book series for children. She was nominated for Global Woman of the Year 2020, and is now the host of her own podcast You Choose You Now, where she talks about letting go of negative self-talk, instead choosing who you are really meant to be. You can connect with Amanda below: Amandahryall.comYou Choose You Now Facebook groupInstagram More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: There are lots more episodes of the Teenage Kicks podcast. You can email me on teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. I’ve also got some posts on the blog that might help parents with other teenage parenting dilemmas, so do pop over to Actually Mummy if you fancy a read. Thank you so much for listening! Subscribe now to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear all my new episodes. I'll be talking to some fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can also find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.

Tips for managing exam stress If you're heading into exam season it's likely that things are getting quite tense in your home. Parents are probably treading on eggshells, and teenagers are panicking that they haven't done/read/learned enough to cope with GCSE's or A-Levels. If that sounds like you, you definitely need to listen to this episode of the Teenage Kicks podcast. Helen Wills interviewed families and parenting coach Sharon Lawton for her best tips on how to cope with exam stress. She gave me so many brilliant tips, as well as some great revision techniques I hadn't heard about before. Above all, my take away point from Sharon was this: "Focus on what you can control, not what you can't..." I think it applies to pretty much every stressful situation, don't you?  You can find Sharon's brilliant daily tips on managing stress in families on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, as well as on her coaching site Natural Flair Coaching. More teenage parenting tips from Helen Wills: There are lots more episodes of the Teenage Kicks podcast. You can email me on teenagekickspodcast@gmail.com. I’ve also got some posts on the blog that might help parents with other teenage parenting dilemmas, so do pop over to Actually Mummy if you fancy a read. Thank you so much for listening! Subscribe now to the Teenage Kicks podcast to hear all my new episodes. I'll be talking to some fabulous guests about difficult things that happened to them as teenagers - including losing a parent, becoming a young carer, and being hospitalised with mental health problems - and how they overcame things to move on with their lives. You can also find more from Helen Wills on parenting teenagers on Instagram and Twitter @iamhelenwills. For information on your data privacy please visit Podcast.co. Please note that Helen Wills is not a medical expert, and nothing in the podcast should be taken as medical advice. If you're worried about a teenager, please seek support from a medical professional.

To read about the Breast and Bottles debate, debunked: subscribe to the New Leaf Nutshell here: https://newleafpodcast.substack.com/p/the-new-leaf-nutshell-breasts-and I found Helen through the Instagram algorithm (yep!) where her insanely colourful and vibrant photos kept popping up on my explore feed until I decided to do something about them....... as a #toddlermum myself, my world is light years away from teenagers and all the additional challenges that comes with them - orrrr..... so I thought . Helen corrected me on this one pretty quickly .....    Helen discusses her crazy journey to the blissfully rainbow world she now lives in, from managing 100+ London pubs as a 23 year old, to the brewing (and managing) of severe anxiety, to a gruelling #IVFjourney 16 years ago, to the incredible heartache that comes with unsuccessful medical intervention in fertility, to #PCOS, to saying #fuckit to everything to emigrate to Canada to be a ski instructor, to be given one more shot and be granted a baby , to #PPD / #PND - twice - and her incredible journey to finding her voice through her baby daughters voice to make a living through a highly successful blog, following and (recently!!) podcast Teenage Kicks (song now officially in my head until end of the day)   Quite apart from how obviously wise Helen is , she is also just out and out 50s glamorous goals tbh, who shows us that if we are really, really passionate about something - that we don't have to put up with the 9-5 and can create our own colour    #colourfulmums #motherhood #mymotherhoodmychoice #mumofteens #workingmama #pregnancy #birth #newpodcast #teenagekicks #actuallymummy 

Our guest this week is lifestyle blogger Helen Wills, parent to two teenagers and the mum behind the Actually Mummy blog. Helen joins Claire & Alina to discuss the challenges of parenting teens, and especially some of the difficult - but important - questions that have arisen following the tragic death of Sarah Everard earlier this month.  This episode tackles everything from gender stereotypes to education and combating sexual harassment. Some really interesting and important topics this week, and another great listen.  ----- Helen hosts her own podcast Teenage Kicks, focusing on taking the fear out of parenting teens.  You can read her blog at actuallymummy.co.uk You can also find her on Instagram and Facebook  ----- www.get-set-go.com @getsetgolondon

In this episode, I speak to award-winning lifestyle blogger and host of The Teenage Kicks Podcast Helen Wills aka Actuallymummy. Helen teenage daughter Maddie was diagnosed with type 1 at 9 years old. Helen shares her experience of Maddie's diagnosis story, their first year of diagnosis as a family and the impact this had on the whole family. Helen also spoke of how diabetes has helped her to overcome perfection. A key takeaway from Helen's journey was how she has and continues to navigate the change in the dynamic of her relationship with managing Maddie's type 1 diabetes as now Maddie is a teenager and is has more independence and control over her type 1 management. In this episode when talking about glucose levels we use mmols and if you use mg/dL then multiply the number by 18 to convert.***Trigger warning this episode discusses self-harm. We do not go into detail but it is spoken about as a topic of Helen's podcast***Useful LinksTeenage Kicks PodcastInstagramTwitterFacebookActually Mummy - BlogDaniel Instagram pageA bit about the show and hostThe Talking Type 1 podcast is a diabetes podcast by Daniel Newman. Daniel brings to you interviews from members of the diabetes community sharing their journeys of the ups and downs of living with type 1 diabetes. You'll hear from those who live with type 1 diabetes, provide care to those living with type 1, healthcare professionals and experts in their field. The interviews will be an open and honest insight into life with type 1 diabetes that you can relate to and also provide the opportunity to learn more about the condition. Daniel will share his insights into his life living with type 1 diabetes. Daniel has lived with the condition along with for over 24 years. He also lives with diabetic retinopathy and received a kidney transplant in 2018. Remember to hit subscribe.

Helen Wills' daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the age of 9. Helen shares the realities of living with Type 1 Diabetes, the added worries of having a child with the condition, and the misunderstandings people place on those who have to manage it.  Learn more about this episode on our website: www.mothersofmisfits.com

Sport and modernism in art in this podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research with Geoff talking to Dr Bernard Vere of the Sotheby's Institute of Art. Geoff talks to Bernard about the relationship between sport and modernist art and architecture in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century in a wide-ranging discussion that takes in Robert Delanunay's landmark work, The Cardiff Team, the battle of styles between tennis champions Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills, fascist architecture and Darlington's (much-lamented) Feethams ground. They also cover British Modernism with a discussion of David Bomberg's work Jui Jitsu, currently (Jan 2020) on display at the National Gallery in London. Dr Bernard Vere is the author of Sport and Modernism in the Visual Arts in Europe, 1909–1949 (Manchester University Press, 2018). He is Programme Director of the MA in Fine and Decorative Art and Design at Sotheby's Institute of Art, London. He has also written the essays ‘Pedal-Powered Avant-Gardes: Cycling Paintings in 1912–1913' (International Journal of the History of Sport, 2011), ‘BLAST SPORT: Vorticism, Sport and William Roberts's Boxers' (Modernism/ Modernity, 2017) and ‘A “Modern Rendezvous” in London: Painters, Pilots, and Edward Wadsworth's A Short Flight (1914)' (British Art Studies, 2017). He is currently working on an essay looking at ‘The Young Man's Home', a 1935 collaboration between Fernand Léger, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier and René Herbst, to be included in the collection Sport and the European Avant-Garde, 1900–1945 (eds. Przemyslaw Strozek and Andreas Kramer, forthcoming from Brill).

In today's episode I talk to Helen Wills. Helen is an award-winning UK family lifestyle blogger. She started her blog Actually Mummy in 2011, when she realised that talking to the four walls and a baby was never going to be enough. Helen now writes about the whole spectrum of raising her teenager son and daughter and offers help to other parents. She is also now a podcaster; her podcast Teenage Kicks aims to take the fear out of parenting a teenager, and to highlight the important impact of mental health during the teenage years.