Parenting Resources & Support for Raising Teens

Parenting a teenager can be both a joy and a challenge. It’s natural to want the best for your young person, but it can sometimes feel hard to know how to support them through the ups and downs of growing up. You don’t have to do it alone—there are supportive resources and communities here to walk alongside you. Below are some trusted programs and opportunities to help you strengthen connection, navigate tricky conversations, and feel more confident in your parenting journey.

Headspace – Online Parent Group Chat

Supporting your young person with peer pressure and social challenges. This free online group chat is a space for parents to connect and explore ways to support their children through common issues young people face today.

Topics may include:

  • How to start conversations with your young person
  • Navigating peer pressure
  • Talking about relationships
  • Understanding what it’s like to be a young person today

Tuning into Kids and Parent Coaching

Kids First – Tuning into Teens Program

Tuning into Teens helps parents build stronger connections with their teenagers, support emotional development, manage conflict, and understand teen challenges more effectively.

More information and registration:
Kids First – Tuning into Teens
ReachOut – Parent Support

ReachOut – Free Professional Parenting Coaching

For parents and carers of teens (12–18 years).
ReachOut offers one-on-one professional coaching sessions to help you better understand and support your teen.

Learn more and register here

Remember, reaching out for support is a sign of strength. Parenting is a journey, and with the right tools and connection, you and your young person can navigate it together with more confidence and ease.

Beat the Chore Wars

When ADHD is part of a relationship, even everyday tasks can spark conflict and leave both partners feeling unseen or unheard.

Validation Tracking Sheet for Couples with ADHD

Melissa Orlov, in her book and website ADHD and Marriage, highlights how highly distressed couples can begin to shift these painful cycles through Validation Checking—a simple but powerful way to confirm what your partner is really trying to express. This method can be especially useful in negotiating hot-button issues like the “chore wars,” helping couples move from blame to understanding.

Using Validation to Beat the “Chore Wars”

To support this process, I’ve created a Validation Tracking Sheet designed for couples to record and reflect on their reactions with one another. It’s a practical tool to build awareness, deepen empathy, and make space for connection, even in the middle of conflict.

Download the Validation Tracking Sheet

👉 Try it out: Download the Validation Tracking Sheet and explore how this simple practice can ease tension, reduce misunderstandings, and bring you and your partner closer together.

Body Welcoming Practice: A variation on the Dynamic Meditation Technique

This meditation elevates your heart rate and involves vigorous activity.
If you have been advised to avoid vigorous activity, please don’t proceed.

This meditation is meant to be done with eyes closed, but if that is confronting, maintaining a soft focus, or occasionally opening the eyes to get your bearings is fine.

Use the Osho Dynamic Meditation Playlist for the first 3 stages (the fourth is done in silence) and then select music you love to dance to for the fifth (celebration) stage:


Listen on Spotify

Stage 1: Chaotic Breathing

Time: 1–10 minutes, depending on your level of experience and attunement to the practice.

Sitting or standing, begin by breathing in and out quickly through your nose.

Ease yourself into this, and let your breathing get faster, always working at a pace that feels supportive to you. If the quick breathing becomes too much, take a few slow breaths and then increase the rate again.

Bring your attention to any tension in your body, flex your limbs to help release this tension.

Keep your breathing chaotic. Change the rhythm. Speed up, slow down. Breathe as quickly as you feel you can handle.

Remain present, witnessing your effort.

Stage 2: Cathartic Release

Part 1

Time: 1–10 minutes, depending on your level of experience and attunement to the practice.

Now let’s get in touch with and make friends with our anger.

Move your body in the way it wants to move, making sure you don’t collide with any objects, walls, or people.

If you feel the urge and your practice space allows, start making some noise. Growl from your belly and let it rise up in your body. Yell, bark, roar, or scream. If you feel self-conscious, use that as a focal point and release it with movement or vocalisation.

If you can’t make noise, release this tension through bodily movements instead—shake, jiggle, punch the air, or kick, always being mindful not to hurt yourself or others.

Stay attuned to the feeling and keep going until you feel better. This discomfort will pass, and the emotions will transform from constriction to openness and aliveness.

Tune into a memory when you were angry. Get in touch with that feeling and allow it to move through your body. Release it.

Be free with this. Go a little wild, but let your body be your guide. Be safe. Be curious. Explore.

Part 2 (In Silence)

Time: 1–10 minutes, depending on your level of experience and attunement to the practice.

Now that you’ve vented your angry, red energy, let’s integrate it into your body.

Stand, sit, or lie down with your eyes closed and bring your attention to the sensations in your body, especially around your heart.

With kindness and curiosity, notice the movement of the energy inside you. Breathe naturally and allow yourself to be here.

When ready, bring your attention back to the room, grounding yourself before moving again.

Stage 3: Jumping

Time: 1–10 minutes, depending on your level of experience and attunement to the practice.

If it’s comfortable, put your arms above your head and start bobbing or jumping in place. If this is too much, try running on the spot or just bobbing.

While jumping, you can pant or chant “Hoo, Hoo, Hoo” (pronounced “Who”) to focus your effort.

This is challenging but worthwhile. Push yourself when you can, but avoid extremes. Be safe.

Stage 4: Standing in Place

Time: 1–10 minutes, depending on your level of experience and attunement to the practice.

Stop and stand where you are, bringing attention to your feet on the floor.

Feel your heart beating, the pleasure of your effort, and focus the energy you have cultivated in your perineum (base chakra).

Keep your focus here, feeling grounded and recharged.

When ready, bring your attention back to the room. It’s time to celebrate.

Stage 5: Celebration

Time: 1–10 minutes, depending on your level of experience and attunement to the practice.

Express yourself in movement however you want. Dance with joy and let your energy flow freely.

With practice, this celebratory release can extend well beyond the allotted time.