Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm your host Sammy and today we are talking about

feeling trapped. Hey everyone, welcome to the podcast today. I am actually recording under a blanket

today in my office. So if you can imagine me recording right now,

just picture me under a blanket. We recently moved into our new house and there's nothing on the walls

and no furniture. And so it's a little bit echoy in here so I'm hoping that the blanket helps

echo so today I wanted to teach you a little bit about your teen brain okay and one thing

I coach on a lot with teens is their frustration because they feel trapped okay and as we get

older independence becomes more and more important

to us. And it is essential for your brain development. It's really important for our developing

brains to be independent and practice being independent. Okay. One really important part of

independence is the ability to be able to make your own decisions.

And this can be a tricky time in families because there is the desire for independence,

but you still live at home and you don't quite have that authority over your own independence.

And your decisions and your wants and your desires, they don't always line up.

A lot of times in your teen years, they don't always line up with the wishes of our parents

or whoever is in charge of you.

Okay.

And then sometimes to make it even more tricky, the people who are in charge of you,

they don't agree on what's best

for you. So I just remember constantly fighting with my mom in high school and then her and my

dad wouldn't agree. And then, I don't know, we were just always fighting about something. And I think

the two things we fought about most were my curfew. And we could never agree on what outfits

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