In this first episode of The Up-Level Reset: Four Simple Shifts for a Stronger 2026, I’m kicking off a four-part mini series airing over the last four Wednesdays of 2025.

Lately, I’ve been feeling the weight of life: the grind, the to-dos, the heaviness of the world, and the emotional load of parenting and running a business. So this series is my personal reset too. I’m pulling out my tools, turning the page, and inviting you to do this with me.

This week is about the simplest shift that can bring the fastest relief: where we place our focus. When we stop scanning for what’s wrong and start noticing what’s right, in ourselves, in our relationships, in our kids, and in the world, everything starts to change.

What I Cover in This Episode:

I walk you through five powerful focus resets:

• Negativity bias: why your brain naturally locks onto problems and how that can distort how you see your life and your teen.
• Gratitude: a real mindset and nervous system shift that expands hope and capacity during hard seasons.
• The Circle of Control: how to reclaim your power by redirecting your energy toward what you can actually influence.
• Problem-scanning to solution-noticing: how to ask better questions that move you forward instead of keeping you stuck.
• The 5-minute affirmation challenge: a simple, neuroscience-backed way to rewire your focus and start your day grounded, optimistic, and connected to what’s possible.

I’m inviting you to join me in a short daily practice:
Listen to 5-10 minutes of affirmations or guided meditations each morning through the end of 2025. This is about training your mind toward self-belief, possibility, and what’s already working.

Journal Prompts:

1. What have I been training my brain to notice lately — and is that the reality I want to keep reinforcing?
2. What are three things that are genuinely going right for me right now, even if they’re small? What does noticing them change in my body and my mood?
3. What is one thing I can’t control that I’ve been carrying anyway? What is one thing I can control today that would help me feel more grounded?
4. What is one recurring stressor I’m ready to approach differently? What is one tiny, realistic solution I can test this week?

Try the 5-Minute Morning Affirmation Challenge

To make this easy, I’m sharing my personal playlist of favorite guided meditations and affirmations.

My YouTube Favorites Playlist

Guided Passages Online Winter Auction:

We’re currently raising funds for scholarships for our Wilderness Rites of Passage Trips and our Youth Connect in-person teen circles. The auction includes incredible offerings and meaningful gifts, and every bid supports youth access to life-changing programs in nature and community. Auction ends 12/12 at 5:00pm PST.

Auction Link:
Guided Passages Online Winter Auction

Let’s Connect:

I’d love to hear your biggest takeaway from this episode, or how the daily affirmation challenge is going for you.

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If it feels like you’re constantly pushing your teen to do homework, clean their room, plan for college, or even just get out of bed, you are so not alone. In today’s episode, I’m breaking down a truth I wish every parent knew:

It's not that your teen isn't motivated; they’re just not motivated by the things you want them to be.

There are real developmental, psychological, and neurological reasons behind this, and when you understand what’s actually going on underneath that “I don’t care” attitude, everything shifts.

Today I walk you through the three key factors that shape teen motivation and the practical ways you can support your teen in building their own authentic drive.

What you'll learn:

1. Your Teen Isn’t Motivated by Your Goals — And That’s Normal: I talk about why the tasks adults value (grades, chores, future planning) often feel meaningless to teens, and how giving them space to name their own goals leads to real motivation and follow-through.

2. The Teen Brain Is Wired for “Now,” Not “Later”: I explain how the still-developing prefrontal cortex and the fully activated reward system shape your teen’s decision-making. When you understand this, you can work with their brain rather than against it.

3. “Laziness” Often Masks Overwhelm or Discouragement: I break down why procrastination, shutdown, or avoidance can actually be signs of stress or self-doubt — not a lack of care — and what to do when your teen feels stuck.

How You Can Support Your Teen’s Motivation

In this episode, I share four strategies you can start using right away:

• Encourage Autonomy Let your teen explore interests and goals that genuinely matter to them.
• Provide Structure (Without Taking Over) Break things down into smaller steps and guide them without stepping into control mode.
• Foster a Growth Mindset Shift the focus from outcomes to effort, resilience, and learning.
• Create an Environment That Honors Their Voice Respect their choices, allow natural consequences, and build trust through collaboration.

Key Takeaways

• Your teen isn’t lazy — their motivation simply doesn’t match your expectations.
• Their brain prioritizes immediate rewards, social connection, and novelty.
• Overwhelm and self-doubt often hide beneath procrastination.
• When you support autonomy, structure, mindset, and communication, real motivation grows.

Want More Support?

If your teen is struggling with motivation, confidence, or direction, they don’t have to navigate this alone.

🌟 Rise Up & Ignite Teen Coaching Programs

Inside Rise Up & Ignite, I help teens identify meaningful goals, create personalized action plans, build confidence, and get consistent support from a caring adult who isn’t their parent. This kind of mentorship makes a huge difference in follow-through and self-belief.

🌟 Rooted in Connection (Parent Coaching Program)

If you’re craving more harmony, trust, and open communication at home, Rooted in Connection gives you the tools and support to navigate the teen years with confidence and clarity.

Simply click the links above to learn more and schedule a call.

Connect With Me

Instagram: @jasmyne.guidedpassages
Website: guided-passages.com

In this episode I explore why intentional rites of passage are critically missing in today’s youth culture, and how parents can guide their young people into these powerful experiences.

🎧 What You’ll Hear in This Episode

• The why behind rites of passage: what happens when teens don’t receive a ritualized transition and what happens when they do.
• A breakdown of the three phases of a rite of passage: separation, challenge (threshold), and incorporation.
• What these phases look like in real life, especially in a wilderness setting.
• How parents can help their teens plug into authentic initiatory experiences, and how community, mentorship, nature and ritual combine to support growth.
• Details on two upcoming summer wilderness quests for teens:
  1. Middle School Quest (incoming or exiting 7th/8th grade, ages ~12-14)
     – Dates: June 16–20
     – 5 days, 4 nights in the Marble Mountains, including a 6-hour solo.
  2. High School Girls’ Quest (ages 15-18)
     – Dates: July 8–14
     – 7 days, 6 nights in the Marble Mountains, including a 24-hour solo.

🔗 Resources & Links

• Sign-up / Details for Youth Connect Winter Session
• Middle School Quest (June)
• High School Girls’ Quest (July)
• Follow me on Instagram → @jasmyne.guidedpassages
  
  
• Email with questions → jasmyne@guided-passages.com

In today’s episode, I’m diving into something so many of us are navigating right now: teen anxiety - why it happens, why it feels so overwhelming, and how to help your anxious teen feel calmer, more confident, and less alone.

As both a parent and a youth coach, I break down what’s happening in your teen’s body and brain, why anxiety shows up the way it does, and the compassionate strategies that actually help—rather than the ones that backfire.

If you’ve been asking, “How do I help my anxious teen?” this episode gives you clarity, relief, and practical tools you can use right away.

What We Cover:

• What anxiety really is (and why reasoning doesn’t work)
• The difference between typical worry and more concerning teen anxiety symptoms
• How the teen brain increases sensitivity and overwhelm
• Pandemic impacts on social skills and confidence
• Why marginalized teens (LGBTQ+, BIPOC) experience higher anxiety
• Four grounding truths every parent should understand
• 5 steps to support your anxious teen:
  • Open communication
  • Challenging catastrophic thoughts
  • Nervous system tools
  • Ending the over-rescue cycle
  • Healthy tech & sleep boundaries
• Simple scripts you can use during anxious moments
• How small, supported steps help teens rebuild confidence

Whether your teen is avoiding school, withdrawing socially, or overwhelmed with “what if” thinking, this episode gives you tools to bring more calm, connection, and hope into your home.

Grab My Free Guide

Download Five Steps to Help Your Teen Minimize and Manage Their Anxiety, or DM me ANXIETY on Instagram and I’ll send it right to you.

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Daily tools + support for parents and teens: @jasmyne.guidedpassages

Sources Mentioned

• CDC: Children’s Mental Health Data & Statistics
• The Trevor Project: 2024 National Survey on LGBTQ+ Youth Mental Health
• Jonathan Haidt: The Anxious Generation (2024)
• Monitoring the Future Study (University of Michigan/NIDA)
• Jean Twenge et al., global internalizing disorder research (post-2012)
• Nature Human Behaviour: Increases in global adolescent loneliness & distress
• Lisa Damour: Under Pressure (2019)
• CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance + APA/Child Mind Institute reports on post-pandemic anxiety

In this week’s episode, I’m unpacking something I think every parent, coach, and mentor wrestles with at some point, which is the idea of "success."

We all want to see our teens thriving and happy, but what if success doesn’t always look like a dramatic transformation? What if it’s quieter… slower… and sometimes invisible at first?

In this conversation, I share what I’ve learned from years of working with teens and families about what real growth actually looks like — and why it takes time.

Here’s what I dive into:

• Why there’s no guaranteed formula for transformation — and why that’s okay
• How to rethink success when progress isn’t instantly visible
• The power of simply having someone who listens and validates your teen
• Why effort, honesty, and consistency matter more than perfection
• How home dynamics can either support or stall a teen’s growth
• The importance of playing the long game and trusting that seeds take time to grow

If you’ve been feeling unsure whether what you’re doing is working, this episode is your reminder to zoom out, take a breath, and trust the process.

💛 Connect & Learn More

If you and your teen are ready for a change and you’re looking for support, I’d love to help.

Now enrolling for:

• Rise Up & Ignite — 12-week coaching programs for teens and young adults (ages 12–24)
• Rooted in Connection — 8-week parent coaching program

👉 Learn more and book a call to see if these programs are a good fit for your family. Just click the program links above.

Let's stay connected:

• Instagram: @jasmyne.guidedpassages
  
  
• Email: jasmyne@guided-passages.com
  
  
• Website: www.guided-passages.com

Screens are everywhere — and if you’ve ever felt like you’re losing the screen-time battle at home, you’re not alone. In this episode, I’m breaking down what’s really happening in your teen’s brain, why phone use is so addictive, and the five hidden ways it affects their confidence, sleep, motivation, and mental health.

We’ll talk about how to move from control to collaboration, model healthy habits ourselves, and create boundaries that build connection instead of conflict.

💡 Highlights

• The neuroscience behind screen addiction and dopamine hits
• How social media fuels comparison and low self-esteem
• The “tired but wired” sleep cycle
• Why connection—not control—creates real change
• Simple steps to co-create screen boundaries that actually work

📄 Free Resource

Grab my Screen Time Plan & Contract — a simple guide to help you and your teen create tech boundaries together.
👉 Here's the link: Screen Time Plan and Contract for Parents of Tweens/Teens

If this episode helps, please subscribe, share it with a friend, or leave a quick review. It means the world and helps more families find these conversations. 💛

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Parenting teens can feel like an emotional rollercoaster. When they’re anxious, stressed, or hurting, we feel it too. Our hearts are right there in the storm with them — which makes sense, because we love them so deeply. But sometimes that love and empathy can pull us under, leaving us exhausted, reactive, or even anxious ourselves.

In this episode, I’m sharing what I’ve learned about how to support your teen without getting pulled under and how to stay loving, present, and connected without carrying all of their emotions as your own.

I’ll walk you through six key ideas that have helped me (and so many of the parents I work with) find steadiness in those intense moments when our teens are struggling. We’ll talk about how to stop absorbing your teen’s emotions, what it really means to hold space for your teen, and how to care deeply without losing yourself in the process.

✨ 1. Don’t jump in the pool.
When your teen’s emotions feel huge, resist the urge to dive in and fix it. They don’t need you drowning with them — they need you steady on the edge, showing it’s safe to feel and move through hard things.

✨ 2. Strengthen your foundation.
If you’ve ever wondered “How do I support my teen without losing myself?” — it starts with caring for your own capacity. Even tiny moments of self-care help you stay centered when they need you most.

✨ 3. Hold space instead of fixing.
Holding space for your teen means listening before advising. A simple “That sounds really hard” helps them feel seen and capable of finding their own next step.

✨ 4. Be okay with hard emotions.
Our teens build resilience by feeling, not avoiding. Let them know it’s okay to feel sad, angry, or disappointed — emotions pass when they’re allowed.

✨ 5. Validate without absorbing.
You can care deeply without carrying their pain. Learning how to stop absorbing your teen’s emotions lets you stay empathetic without losing your own grounding.

✨ 6. Model steadiness.
They learn most by watching you. When you feel emotions, recover, and repair, you teach real resilience — not perfection, but return.

💬 In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How to support your teen without getting pulled under
• How to stop absorbing your teen’s emotions
• What holding space for your teen actually looks like
• How to support your teen without losing yourself in the process
• How to model emotional maturity through your own regulation and repair

🌿 Action Step:

Instead of trying to apply everything at once, choose one of these practices that feels the most challenging or the most needed for you right now — and try it out in one real moment with your teen this week. Maybe it’s taking a breath before you respond, listening before you fix, or letting their emotions flow without rushing to contain them. Just one small shift can create ripple effects of calm and connection.

💛 Let’s stay connected:

If this episode resonated with you, I’d love for you to:

• Follow me on Instagram → @jasmyne.guidedpassages
  for daily tools and inspiration
• Subscribe to the Parents & Teens Rising podcast, so you never miss an episode
• Share this episode with a friend who’s in the thick of parenting teens
• Leave a quick review — it helps so much and means the world to me!

In today’s episode, I’m sharing something I normally only offer inside my 12-week teen coaching programs — a leaked 5-minute guided meditation designed to help your teen or young adult ignite a positive mindset, shift their thoughts, and start their day with confidence and calm.

This calming and empowering meditation helps teens — and anyone who listens — reframe challenges, find focus, and create more positivity in everyday life.

👉 Want your teen or young adult to access more mindset tools and emotional regulation techniques?
Learn more about my Rise Up & Ignite Coaching programs for ages 12-24 and then book a call to get more clarity by clicking here: Rise Up & Ignite