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

Hi everyone. So happy you are here today. Thank you for listening in in it's kind of been a little bit of a

crazy week with all the happenings with covid so i hope that you are hanging in there wherever you are

so let's do our listener shout out this is from surfer girl and she says, this is such an amazing podcast. I have only

been listening for a few days, but I already feel like this has made me a better person.

I like to listen to this podcast when I am doing homework, journaling, and doing chores. It makes me feel

really happy, calm, and gives me some time to think about life. This podcast

is so relatable and I definitely recommend it to teen girls everywhere. Online middle school

has been kind of hard for me because I just started at a new school, but this has helped to ease

my mind and thoughts. Once again, I love the podcast. Just keep doing what you're doing.

Thanks. Thank you, Surfer Girl. Appreciate that review. I'm so glad that this podcast has been helpful

for you. Online school is really hard, but moving to a new school where you don't even recognize

any of the faces on the screen. That is challenging.

So good for you for listening to the podcast and keep up the hard work.

So this week has been a little bit disheartening for me

because I've watched schools reclose and things shut down again

as a result of the increases in COVID cases.

I know some of you have not even had the opportunity to even go back to school yet and are still very much isolated.

I have also been watching the data that has been coming out about our teens' mental health throughout this pandemic,

and the numbers of teens dealing with anxiety and depression has increased so much,

you guys.

I've also seen it on a personal level with the people that I work with on a day-to-day basis.

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