Welcome to the Therapy for Black Girls Podcast, a weekly conversation about mental health,

personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions

of ourselves.

I'm your host, Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia.

For more information or to find a therapist in your area, visit our website at therapyforblackgirls.com.

While I hope you love listening to and learning from the podcast, it is not meant to be a substitute

for a relationship with a licensed mental health professional.

Thanks so much for joining me for session 133 of the Therapy for Black Girls Podcast.

Today we're chatting all about how to keep the lines of communication open between you and your teen daughter.

For this conversation, I was joined by Gretchen Campbell.

Gretchen is an original Jersey girl currently residing in North Carolina.

She's a licensed professional counselor with over 19 years of experience, even though she doesn't look like it.

She loves working with tween and teen girls and their moms.

And she has a newfound passion for servicing young Jin Z and Millennial women.

Gretchen also recently authored her first book, I'm the mom of a teen girl. Help.

Gretchen and I chat about some of the common concerns she hears working with teens and their moms.

How moms can take care of themselves while parenting their teen daughter?

How to support your daughter in making healthy decisions about things like friends and social media?

And of course, she shared all of her favorite resources for moms of teens.

If you hear something while listening that really resonates with you,

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Here's our conversation.

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