Raising a Powerful Girl

On this weeks podcast episode Maria offers several tools for mothers to connect with their daughters and support them through the school year. These tools include creating a vision board, setting expectations, working on executive functioning skills, and cultivating self-care routines. The post also emphasizes the importance of navigating peer relationships and friendships and suggests using a mother-daughter journal as a safe space for communication.

On this episode Maria provides a wealth of knowledge on how to become solutions-oriented when parenting teenagers. One of the key takeaways from the podcast is the importance of shifting from a problem-focused mindset to a solutions-oriented one. Maria highlights how focusing on problems can lead to rumination and negative spirals of thoughts and emotions. Instead, Maria encourages moms to embrace the problem, validate their daughter's feelings, and work towards finding solutions. Learn more about the difference between problem focused and solutions oriented and how to shift this dynamic and more

In this episode, we're going to talk about an important topic: the power of self-reflection. Specifically, we're going to discuss how our actions as parents can affect our daughters and their behavior. It's a difficult conversation to have, but an essential one. By examining our own behavior and making necessary changes, we can create a better relationship with our daughters and help them grow into confident, empowered women.

Join Maria on this weeks episode on how the power of your thoughts, the language you use and labels you apply to your daughter will affect your connection and experience. Don't like your teen daughter? Maybe that needs to be reframed to "I'm having a hard time connecting with her". Learn how to shift your thoughts and how it impacts the relationship with your daughter and more.

How do you start untethering form your child when it makes you scare or anxious? Listen today as Maria shares about a rite of passage experience her daughter is going through and how it was just a mush a rite of passage for her as a parent and the emotional struggles she has with allowing her daughter to go out into the wilderness for 36 hours with 2 other teens girls and more.

In an emergency we always start with the ABC's. Airway, Breathing and Circulation. But, what do you do with a moody teen to figure out how to even support them? Listen in on today's episode as Maria takes you through her mental check list when dealing with a moody tween and teen daughter and how to support them. From things to be aware of to scripted dialogue to use to build trust and give your daughter the support they need and more.

Join Maria on todays episode where she helps you look at crying from a lense of curiosity. Why do girls cry so much? Why are moms having problems with this? What is the biology behind this and how can we reframe crying from a positive mental health perspective and more.

Why do tweens or teens lie? How are we suppose to build trust in order to communicate if she lies to me? Join Maria on this weeks episode where we dive into 5 reasons why your teen daughter is lying to you and how to shift it!

Join Maria on a short but powerful episode where she shares one of the biggest reasons for breakdown or problems with communication between parents and their girls. This small tweak can proactive change your communication for the better!

Walking on eggshells around your daughter? Are you anxious about how your interactions are going to go. Do you feel your mood plummet when interacting with her or when you are around her? You are getting sucked into her emotional spiral! Todays episode we dive into how to stop getting sucked into the emotional spiral so you can parent from logic and and an emotionally neutral place and we talk about the devastating effects of getting sucked into the spiral and more.

Join Maria on Todays episode where she dives into "normal" and how we need to stop justifying experiences as normal and evaluate what story we want to create with our daughters and reframe our new "Normal". From "mean girls" to teens pushing their mothers away to teens who just want to hang out in their room on their phone all day. What is normal?

Join Maria on today's podcast episode as she talks about how giving blanket "No's" build mistrust and break down communication with your daughter. She explains why as well as gives you strategies and techniques to develop trust and communication while keeping your daughter safe!

Join Maria as we dive into how to help girls build healthy relationships with food. What if your daughter is starving when she comes home from school and just wants to eat junk? How do you teach healthy eating? How do you not conform to diet culture or villanize food? How do you teach girls that food is fuel and to learn to listen to their body and more? Listen in today.

Join Maria as she explores how we are culturally setup for failure and exhaustion as mothers and how to support moms on their journey and more.

Join us on today's episode where Maria takes you on a "choose your own adventure" story to show you how your perception or interactions can shape your response and reality with the relationship you have with your daughter. We focus on building trust and creating safe spaces where she feels understood and supported.