107 — What Your Teen is Trying to Tell You
Gender: A Wider Lens
Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley
4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, the Wider Lens duo takes a slight detour from gender to explore teenage years from a developmental approach and how parents can better connect with and support their teen children through a challenging but powerful season of life — adolescence.
Sasha interviews Stella about her latest book, What Your Teen is Trying to Tell You. The book empowers parents to distinguish between opportunities in which intervention makes sense or moments that are best left for the teens to work out for themselves. Reviewed as somewhat of a deep dive into the teenage brain, the book provides practical advice for each of the key milestones teenagers need to tackle during adolescence to become happy, healthy adults.
Covering topics from anxiety to body confidence and technology obsession to the sexual self, this book is sure to give parents — always desperate to “fix” situations for their kids — the confidence to optimize on a teaching moment, or the patience to respect the power of simply letting the lessons be learned. The ultimate goal of the book is to enable parents with a better understanding of their teens and improved discernment, resulting in a rekindled joy and connection shared within parent-teen relationship dynamics.
Links:
Stella’s Website
Stella’s Substack
https://stellaomalley.substack.com/
Full Collection of Stella’s books:
What Your Teen is Trying to Tell You, 2023
Bully-Proof Kids, 2022
Fragile, 2019
Cotton Wool Kids, 2015
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stella O'Malley, a psychotherapist in Ireland. |
| 0:05.0 | And I'm Sasha Ayyad, an adolescent therapist in the United States. |
| 0:09.0 | Through in-depth interviews, personal stories, and psychological exploration, we probe the gender landscape within contemporary culture. |
| 0:18.0 | And we consider the implications of prioritizing personal identity over other aspects of the self. |
| 0:25.0 | This is the thinking person's take on gender. |
| 0:28.0 | Join us as we look at gender from a wider lens. |
| 0:34.3 | Howdy, Stella? Hello there, sash. |
| 0:35.3 | I'm going to be a little bit shy today because you're in the view of me. |
| 0:39.4 | Oh, are you? |
| 0:40.3 | I sure am. |
| 0:41.9 | So Stella is going from her typically exuberant opinionated |
| 0:47.5 | itself to like a little bit of stage fright which is unusual for us to see. |
| 0:53.0 | But yes, today's a special episode because I'm essentially interviewing you. |
| 0:58.0 | We're going to talk about what your teen is trying to tell you, |
| 1:02.0 | which is your new book yes and this is all about my understanding is it's all |
| 1:06.8 | about my understanding is it's kind of like a DIY manual for parents who are a little uncertain maybe they're lacking |
| 1:16.7 | confidence they just think you know if I could get the right therapist my |
| 1:20.7 | my kid would feel much better but you have a different view on it. |
| 1:24.3 | Like, can you talk about that? |
| 1:26.3 | Like, what was a motivation kind of for this book? |
| 1:28.8 | You've kind of hit the nail on the head, so I must have bored you enough over the last couple of years |
| 1:33.2 | in the marriage because it is that what it is is I'm I'm a second therapist for |
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