Welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm Coach Sammy and I am so glad you are here.

The teen years can be fun and exciting, but also filled with self-doubt, insecurities, and lots of

frustration. I am here to help you along your

teen journey and make sure you enjoy your teen years as much as possible. Let's get started.

Hey, everyone, welcome to the podcast this week. How's it going? If you didn't tune in to last week's podcast

and you are a sports parent because I know there's a lot of parents that listen to this podcast too.

That episode is so helpful for parents who are raising teen athletes. I had coach Bree back on the podcast, and she is doing a free training for sports parents,

which I highly recommend.

So if you are interested in that, I will also put that link in the show notes under this

week's podcast.

But last week's episode, it was just a good episode to listen to for us parents who need help with what to say,

what not to say, what to do when we are communicating with our teen athlete. Go ahead and check

that episode out. For this week, I wanted to talk about hidden pain. Life has been a little bit rough for me lately because that's just

how life is sometimes. And I hadn't experienced this past week where I just couldn't hold it in

anymore and I really felt like I needed to talk to somebody and I kept avoiding texting any of my

friends. And I eventually got to a point where I was like,

this is too bad. I need help. And so I texted one of my friends and I was like, could you just listen to me

for 10 minutes? Because that was all either of us had at the moment was 10 minutes. And she said,

of course. And so I just cried to her for 10 minutes

and let her know what my heart was struggling with. And she gave me the most beautiful gift,

which was the gift of listening. She didn't judge me or tell me what to do. She just loved me

and she listened. And after I talked to her, I didn't have any answers

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