One Thing with Hellen Wills on the truth about the teenage years
The Therapy Edit
Anna Mathur
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
And it's great news - Helen's one thing is that we should not be fearful of the teenage years!
Helen set up her blog, Actually Mummy, 11 years ago when her children were small. You can enjoy it here https://actuallymummy.co.uk
Helen also talks about parenting teens on her podcast, Teenage Kicks. You can listen here https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/teenage-kicks-podcast/id1501488455
The podcast aims to show that families can and do get through hard things with their teens, and offers inspiration to parents dealing with similar stories to Helen's guests.
Helen's Instagram @iamhelenwills is a mix of midlife stories (fashion with colour, not 'growing old gracefully' and sloping off into retirement) and her own thoughts on life with teenagers.
You can also join Helen's Facebook group 'Teenage Kicks' where you can share the trials and tribulations of parenting teens.
Here's the link https://www.facebook.com/groups/486393358908628
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The next bus isn't for half an hour. |
| 0:03.4 | Fancy a mall one? |
| 0:05.4 | Ooh, they're so chewy. |
| 0:07.6 | Yeah, the chew lasts longer than a hundred long jumps on the longest day of the year. |
| 0:11.0 | It lasts longer than a slow motion replay of a toy toy's running a marathon. It lasts longer than a slow motion replay of the toy |
| 0:13.3 | sois running a marathon. It lasts longer than the longest long Johns |
| 0:15.9 | being worn by long John Silver. It lasts longer than long John Silver |
| 0:18.8 | were in the longest long Johns while longing for his long-haired lover from |
| 0:20.9 | Liverpool. |
| 0:21.9 | He's easy for you to say. |
| 0:25.0 | With Ma'oam's longer-lasting chew, it's easy to. |
| 0:28.0 | Chew is fun. |
| 0:30.0 | Chue Ma'oam. Hello and welcome to the therapy edit with me psych therapist mom of three and author Anna Martha |
| 0:37.0 | every Friday I invite one guest to tell me the one thing they would most like to share with mums everywhere. |
| 0:46.3 | So join with me as we hear this dose of wisdom. |
| 0:50.3 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:51.3 | Hi everyone. I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:58.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to today's guest episode of the therapy edit, whether you're walking the dog or you're on the way back from a school drop off. It's so good to speak to you today. |
| 1:07.0 | And I have got with me Helen Wells. She is a mom of teens and I found her on Instagram. I think maybe |
| 1:13.8 | Allison Perry had shared one of her posts and I and I went straight to her |
| 1:17.3 | page and I started looking down and I just felt this huge white come off my shoulders I didn't even realize was there and it's |
| 1:26.0 | so basically Helen talks all about parenting teenagers and as a mom of young children often I'm at the receiving end of if just you wait you think this is |
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