The Teen Years Toolkit For Moms: Parenting Communication Skills to Calm the Chaos

Have you ever walked away from a conversation with your teen thinking, “Why did I just react like that?”
If you’re tired of yelling, feeling guilty afterward, and getting pulled into emotional power struggles, this episode will feel like a breath of fresh air. Parenting teens can be triggering—especially when you’re overwhelmed or frustrated—but what if emotional regulation didn’t require a full personality overhaul? What if it only took one simple, repeatable tool you can use in the heat of the moment?
In this episode, you’ll discover:
Why simply naming your emotion immediately lowers its intensity
How modeling emotional awareness out loud teaches your teen regulation in real time
How a quick 10-second pause can prevent regret, rebuild trust, and stop escalation before it starts

Press play now to learn the simple phrase that can instantly shift the tone in your home and help you respond instead of react.
Take the Communication Style Under Stress quiz now—it only takes a minute!
How to Talk About the BIG Stuff With Your Teen
New episodes are released every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6:00 AM EST
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This powerful podcast explores how moms and parents can navigate anxiety, overwhelm, and grief while building resilience, confidence, and emotional intelligence, offering tools for better communication, active listening, and setting healthy boundaries to foster trust, reduce yelling and punishment, de-escalate conflict and escalation, and strengthen relationships with teens through empathy, calm, and lasting harmony.

What do you do when your teenager comes home furious, snaps at you, and every part of you wants to either shut down or snap back?
If you’re a mom of a teen, you know this moment. Your child is overwhelmed and emotionally dysregulated… and suddenly, so are you. You want to fix their bad day. You want to correct the disrespect. You want to restore peace immediately. But the harder you try to control the moment, the more disconnected things can feel. This episode breaks down what’s really happening beneath the surface — for both you and your teen.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
What to do in the exact moment your teen is yelling and you feel triggered
Why your instinct to fix the problem can actually escalate the situation
How to pause, regulate your nervous system, and protect connection — even if things already blew up

Press play now to learn how to handle teen emotional explosions with calm, clarity, and connection instead of regret.
Take the Communication Style Under Stress quiz now—it only takes a minute!
How to Talk About the BIG Stuff With Your Teen
New episodes are released every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6:00 AM EST
Book a free 1:1 coaching consult here
Connect with me at [email protected]
Learn more about me at www.coachwithjessica.ca
This powerful podcast explores how moms and parents can navigate anxiety, overwhelm, and grief while building resilience, confidence, and emotional intelligence, offering tools for better communication, active listening, and setting healthy boundaries to foster trust, reduce yelling and punishment, de-escalate conflict and escalation, and strengthen relationships with teens through empathy, calm, and lasting harmony.

Are you exhausted from feeling like you’re always the one holding it together while your teenager unloads everything on you?
When your teen comes home overwhelmed, emotional, or reactive, your instinct might be to fix, correct, or protect yourself by shutting down. But what if that instinct is actually increasing your emotional labor and creating more power struggles? In this episode, you’ll learn why connection—starting with yourself—is the simplest way to reduce conflict and protect your own nervous system while parenting a teenager.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
Why connection matters more than consequences or the “perfect” words during the teen years
How disconnecting (even subtly) increases emotional labor and conflict at home
A calmer, practical way to stay connected without fixing, lecturing, or saying everything just right

Press play now to learn how leading with connection can immediately lower tension in your home and make parenting your teen feel lighter and more sustainable.
Take the Communication Style Under Stress quiz now—it only takes a minute!
How to Talk About the BIG Stuff With Your Teen
New episodes are released every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6:00 AM EST
Book a free 1:1 coaching consult here
Connect with me at [email protected]
Learn more about me at www.coachwithjessica.ca
This powerful podcast explores how moms and parents can navigate anxiety, overwhelm, and grief while building resilience, confidence, and emotional intelligence, offering tools for better communication, active listening, and setting healthy boundaries to foster trust, reduce yelling and punishment, de-escalate conflict and escalation, and strengthen relationships with teens through empathy, calm, and lasting harmony.

Do you feel like the second you start talking, your teenager either shuts down, argues, or completely tunes you out?
If you’re tired of conversations turning into lectures, power struggles, or raised voices—even when you promised yourself you’d stay calm—this episode will feel like a breath of fresh air. You’ll learn why your teen isn’t ignoring you on purpose, how your nervous system plays a bigger role than you think, and what small communication shifts can completely change the tone in your home.
Understand why talking more actually makes teens listen less
Learn how to calm yourself before conversations so they don’t spiral
Discover five simple, realistic communication shifts that build connection without giving up authority

Press play now to learn how to talk so your teen will finally listen—without yelling, lecturing, or feeling like you’re failing as a mom.
Take the Communication Style Under Stress quiz now—it only takes a minute!
How to Talk About the BIG Stuff With Your Teen
New episodes are released every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6:00 AM EST
Book a free 1:1 coaching consult here
Connect with me at [email protected]
Learn more about me at www.coachwithjessica.ca
This powerful podcast explores how moms and parents can navigate anxiety, overwhelm, and grief while building resilience, confidence, and emotional intelligence, offering tools for better communication, active listening, and setting healthy boundaries to foster trust, reduce yelling and punishment, de-escalate conflict and escalation, and strengthen relationships with teens through empathy, calm, and lasting harmony.

Do you ever feel hurt, rejected, or even panicked when your teenager shuts down and says, “I don’t want to talk about it”?
If you’re raising a teen, you’ve probably experienced the one-word answers, the closed bedroom doors, and the frustration of wanting connection—but getting silence instead. It can feel personal. It can trigger fears that you’re failing as a mom or losing your bond. In this replay of one of my most downloaded episodes, you’ll learn why this dynamic is actually incredibly common—and how to respond in a way that builds connection instead of pushing your teen further away.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
Why teenagers often don’t want to talk (and how understanding the developmental reasons changes everything)
What you might be making their silence mean—and why that interpretation fuels conflict
Exactly how to respond when your teen says “I don’t want to talk,” including powerful role-play examples you can use immediately

If you’re ready to stop forcing conversations and start creating real connection with your teen, press play now and learn a calmer, more effective approach.
Take the Communication Style Under Stress quiz now—it only takes a minute!
How to Talk About the BIG Stuff With Your Teen
New episodes are released every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6:00 AM EST
Book a free 1:1 coaching consult here
Connect with me at [email protected]
Learn more about me at www.coachwithjessica.ca
This powerful podcast explores how moms and parents can navigate anxiety, overwhelm, and grief while building resilience, confidence, and emotional intelligence, offering tools for better communication, active listening, and setting healthy boundaries to foster trust, reduce yelling and punishment, de-escalate conflict and escalation, and strengthen relationships with teens through empathy, calm, and lasting harmony.