How are you feeling within the behaviours with your teen daughter? I bet you’re feeling crap and useless like it’s all your fault. Sometimes it just feels like your whole world is collapsing around you and you’re left reeling from yet another exchange. Is it me that’s done this to my daughter, maybe it’s something that’s happened in my childhood.. ? We all feel shite from time to time but there is a way out. Speak to someone else who understands how it is for you, who can see it from a zoomed out view, rather than your in the moment view. Taking time out to recognise that your behaviour reflects a need is super powerful. It also helps our teen daughters to see that they don’t have to keep doing it all the time. They can rest, they can admit that they feel pants. We and them don’t have to do it all.
