How do we handle hurt, harm, or stay in relationship with those who it is hard to be with?

I turned to Kari Kampakis, fellow mom to 4 girls and author for teen girls, to talk about improving the mother/daughter relationship.

In this interview, you'll learn how the Strengths Finder can be useful to 1) spot in our younger kids, 2) explore with kids 10-14, and 3) identify with older teens.

In this interview, Ella and I talk about her friendship journey: lessons learned, perspective that comes from age, and reflections of a teen on her generation.

It's a noisy world. How do we help girls find themselves?

In this conversation, we talk about why dads (or dad figures) are important in daughter's lives. What to do if things are strained. The role mom plays in helping to cultivate their relationship and more.

How do we cultivate faith in our daughters, especially if they don't like or have a church, youth group, or para church group?

Understanding personality is so important to developing a deeper connection to our girls!

Maybe the conversation you're having is not the one you ought to be having?

While there are PLENTY of things girls face with peers, perhaps one of the best ways to help her combat the pressure is to be the kind of mom and create the kind of home where she's just not interested "in all that."

As a girl mom to 4 daughters 9-18 and founder of Open Door Sisterhood, Alexandra brings her experience to cultivating friendships among girls.

In this interview, we learn more about the meaning of self-harm, signs to look for, and a healthy approach to take with teens.

Disordered eating is a spectrum we all find ourselves on somewhere.

How do we help teen girls develop a healthy emotional life?

Moms often bemoan their daughter's low self-esteem and ask for recommendations of good Christian books to help her. What Beth and her daughter, Sophie, have found is that God can use cultural trends and YouTubers to accomplish his mission as much as anything. In this episode: How Sophie's self-esteem grew because of Yes Theory.

As we approach Thanksgiving and the end of 2020, Beth and Ella talk about the thing that has helped Ella come alive again and how to name the many small things that would not have happened without the pandemic. How can you carve out space to come alive? What can you be grateful for because of 2020?

In this episode, Beth shares a snippet of her interview with Alexandra Kuykendall, author, speaker, and host of the Open Door Sisterhood Podcast. Alexandra shares the reality that we never know how lonely someone is in a crowd of people and Sophie opens up about a vulnerable time when that's exactly how she felt.

Beth and her girls discuss a snippet of an interview with David Eaton, co-founder and president of Axis and co-author of Smart Phone Sanity and Engaging Your Teen's World. As parents, how do we foster trust that leads to independence, hopefully helping kids create their own internal fences?

We hear a lot about the Enneagram these days. And while most coaches will tell you not to type your kids, many will also say that they have been giving you clues from the beginning. Clare Loughrige offers insight that helps locate yourself in the Heart, Gut, or Head Center. Without "knowing your number", this alone can help in your mother-daughter relationship. Beth and her girls listen to a snippet of Clare and then talk about a story in Starbucks when knowing the Enneagram became helpful!