Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast.

I'm your host Sammy and today we are talking about being wanted.

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Sammy, S-A-M-I-K-N-O-Noing-up.com. Let's get into today's episode, and I chose to time this episode

to release just right around Valentine's Day because I believe this will be an appropriate episode for

February, okay? And I coach so many teens on this topic and I even talk to my kids about this

topic because Valentine's Day is coming up and they want to be wanted by other people

or a certain someone just so that they can feel happy. I have multiple teens right now

that I am working with this on, all right? And one teen was adopted when she was a young girl because

her mom couldn't take care of her. And so she is working on trying to believe that she is wanted

by her current adoptive parents, which of course she is, but she is really

working on training her brain to believe that. The second teen who is working on this had a

boyfriend decide that he liked her best friend more. And so he left this teen alone at a party

and chose to go hang out with the best friend. Okay. The 13 I'm working with is having

anxiety heading into lunch because she fears that her friends are not going to want her there at the

lunch table. And then the fourth one I've been working with is feeling unwanted because her friends

don't invite her to as many things as she would

like to be invited to. The feeling of being unwanted, it just doesn't happen at Valentine's Day.

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