Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Teen emotions can feel like a five-alarm fire in your own kitchen.
Psychologist Dr. Lisa Damour offers a sanity-saving reset: distress isn’t automatically a crisis—and your job isn’t to fix everything in real time.
In this conversation with Kate Bowler, you’ll hear practical language for the moments when you want to panic, lecture, or solve. The first step is smaller than you think: stay steady, name what’s real, and give your teen a safe place to feel.
If parenting has started to feel impossible, this is a better starting line.
Teen emotions can feel like a five-alarm fire in your own kitchen.
Psychologist Dr. Lisa Damour offers a sanity-saving reset: distress isn’t automatically a crisis—and your job isn’t to fix everything in real time.
In this conversation with Kate Bowler, you’ll hear practical language for the moments when you want to panic, lecture, or solve. The first step is smaller than you think: stay steady, name what’s real, and give your teen a safe place to feel.
If parenting has started to feel impossible, this is a better starting line.
