Episode 46: Understanding and Supporting Teenagers’ Mood

This week's podcast focuses on understanding and supporting your teenagers' mood. Whether that's expressed as anger, sadness, frustration, or even aggression - as parents it's important to understand that mood issues are a normal part of teen development.In this podcast episode, I discuss the causes of imbalances related to mood changes, includingChanges that occur in the teenage brain and how that affects their mood and behaviour;Neurotransmitters and why teenagers are seeking out dopamine rewarding experiences such as eating too much junk food, excessive social media use, gaming, alcohol, drug use.The role of social development on a teenager's mood.I also go over how you can support your teenagers to have a healthy, balanced mood by focusing on:The importance of sleep, and what role sleep plays in mood changes;Stress and how that affects mood and behaviour. Plus how we can support our teen's stress response;The role food has on mood and the changes we can make to nourish our teenagers well to support their mood;The role the gut plays, and the 4 most important nutrients that you might consider supplementing in your teenage children. This episode is part two of our podcast series focusing on teenagers. Next week I will be chatting about supporting puberty in girls and the following week will be all about supporting puberty in boys.Episode Links:Our Gut health ebook is a great place to start to get extra information to nourish your teens gut to support a healthy mood. Is your teenager feeling frustrated, angry, sad, or irritable? We can offer personalised support and advice to support a healthy mood.Click here to book an appointment.This episode is proudly sponsored by my membership, the Natural Super Kids Klub. If you would like to become a member of the Klub to get more helpful resources to help you raise a happy and healthy family click here and pop your name on the waitlist. If you loved this episode, leave me a review! I would really appreciate it. Also, let me know your biggest takeaway from this episode by sending me a direct message on Instagram @naturalsuperkids or shoot me an email at [email protected].