526. Understanding Emotions, Raising Teens, and the Nervous System
Better Than Happy
Jody Moore
4.8 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This week, I’m answering three listener questions from the podcast hotline that tackle some of the most challenging aspects of emotional life.
From understanding why certain people trigger unexpected tears, to navigating the complex world of parenting teenagers and setting boundaries, to exploring what it really means to process versus neutralize emotions, each question reveals universal struggles we all face when trying to make sense of our inner experiences and relationships.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever been in a situation where emotions just come up and you have some guess about why, |
| 0:06.5 | like some experience from your past, but you're not exactly sure why? And do you find that it can |
| 0:12.4 | overtake you and you can even start crying in certain situations? We're going to talk about that today. |
| 0:17.9 | Do you have teenagers or young adult kids who you are trying to guide? And that means |
| 0:23.5 | sometimes giving them restrictions or consequences or boundaries or rules. And then you question, |
| 0:30.5 | am I doing the right thing or am I actually making some of their struggles and problems worse? |
| 0:35.3 | Am I guiding them more towards the life I want for them, |
| 0:38.6 | or pushing them towards all the things I don't want for them? How do we know? We're going to talk |
| 0:43.6 | about that today. And finally, what's the deal with all this talk about the nervous system |
| 0:48.7 | and processing emotions? Do we have to do that? Can we just neutralize them? What's going on here? We're going to talk about |
| 0:55.1 | that today as well. This is episode 526, understanding emotions, raising teens, and the nervous |
| 1:02.8 | system. Thanks for being here. Let's do it. Welcome to Better Than Happy, the podcast where we |
| 1:10.3 | transform our lives by transforming ourselves. |
| 1:14.1 | My name is Jody Moore. In the decade plus, I've been working with clients as a master |
| 1:19.4 | certified coach. I've helped tens of thousands of people to become empowered. And from empowered, |
| 1:25.8 | the things that seemed hard become trivial. And the things that |
| 1:29.8 | seemed impossible become available. And suddenly a whole new world of desire and possibility open up to you. |
| 1:38.3 | And what do you do with that? Well, that's the question. What will you do? Let's find out. |
| 1:48.6 | Sometimes listening to a podcast is enough, but sometimes you'll feel inspired to go deeper. |
| 1:55.0 | If you hear things that speak to you in today's episode, consider it your invitation to a |
| 2:00.6 | complimentary coaching workshop. On this live interactive Zoom call with me, you'll get a taste of the power of this work when applied in real life. You can participate or be a silent observer, but you have to take a step if you want to truly see change in your life. |
| 2:18.2 | Two steps, actually. |
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