329: Parenting Teens Without Losing Your Cool with Dr. Ann-Louise Lockhart
Release Date: 10/22/2025
345: What Your Partner's Resistance to Decluttering Is Actually Telling You
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
📚 PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK Making Home Your Happy Place: The Real-Life Guide to Decluttering Without the Overwhelm releases February 17th. Pre-order now to receive exclusive bonus goodies — simple, supportive tools you can start using right away. 👉 🎯 TAKE THE FREE DECLUTTERING STYLE QUIZ Discover your personal Decluttering Style and get a clear, realistic starting plan that actually fits your life. 👉 If you’ve ever looked around your home and thought, “Why does this feel like it’s all on me?”—this episode is for you. Because getting another...
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344: Why "Try Harder" Doesn't Work for an ADHD Brain (And What Does) with Brooke Schnittman
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
📚 PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK Making Home Your Happy Place: The Real-Life Guide to Decluttering Without the Overwhelm releases February 17th. Pre-order now to receive exclusive bonus goodies — simple, supportive tools you can start using right away. 👉 🎯 TAKE THE FREE DECLUTTERING STYLE QUIZ Discover your personal Decluttering Style and get a clear, realistic starting plan that actually fits your life. 👉 If you’ve ever felt like you’re working twice as hard as everyone else just to keep your head above water… this episode is going to feel like a deep...
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343: When Decluttering Gets Hard: How to Tackle Decision Fatigue
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
📚 PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK Making Home Your Happy Place: The Real-Life Guide to Decluttering Without the Overwhelm releases February 17th. Pre-order now to receive exclusive bonus goodies — simple, supportive tools you can start using right away. 👉 🎯 TAKE THE FREE DECLUTTERING STYLE QUIZ Discover your personal Decluttering Style and get a clear, realistic starting plan that actually fits your life. 👉 When Decluttering Feels Impossible, It’s Probably Decision Fatigue (Not Laziness) Have you ever started decluttering with good intentions… and then your...
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342: (BONUS) A Birthday Gift: I'm Reading You a Chapter From My New Book
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
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341: 25 to Thrive: The Framework That Kickstarts Your Year
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
📚 PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK Making Home Your Happy Place: The Real-Life Guide to Decluttering Without the Overwhelm releases February 17th. Pre-order now to receive exclusive bonus goodies — simple, supportive tools you can start using right away. 👉 🎯 TAKE THE FREE DECLUTTERING STYLE QUIZ Discover your personal Decluttering Style and get a clear, realistic starting plan that actually fits your life. 👉 The 25-Minute Decluttering Strategy That Actually Works When You’re Short on Time You know that moment when you want to declutter… but the idea of pulling everything out and...
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340: What I'm Not Carrying Into the New Year And What You Shouldn't Either
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
📚 PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK Making Home Your Happy Place: The Real-Life Guide to Decluttering Without the Overwhelm releases February 17th. Pre-order now to receive exclusive bonus goodies — simple, supportive tools you can start using right away. 👉 🎯 TAKE THE FREE DECLUTTERING STYLE QUIZ Discover your personal Decluttering Style and get a clear, realistic starting plan that actually fits your life. 👉 If you’ve ever opened social media and instantly felt behind — about your body, your home, or your progress — you’re not alone. I share a moment like that in this episode,...
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339: Why Fresh Starts Fail And What Actually Works Instead
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
📚 PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK Making Home Your Happy Place: The Real-Life Guide to Decluttering Without the Overwhelm releases February 17th. Pre-order now to receive exclusive bonus goodies—simple, supportive tools you can start using right away. 👉 🎯 TAKE THE FREE DECLUTTERING STYLE QUIZ Discover your personal Decluttering Style and get a clear, realistic starting plan that actually fits your life. 👉 Every January, we’re sold the same promise: New year, new you. Fresh motivation. Big plans. A clean slate. But what if the “fresh start” was never designed to work in the first...
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338: What to Do With Unwanted Gifts (Without the Guilt)
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
📚 PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK! Making Home Your Happy Place: The Real Life Guide to Decluttering Without the Overwhelm releases February 17th! Pre-order now and receive exclusive bonus goodies—simple, supportive tools you can apply right away through the holiday season and beyond! 👉 🎯 TAKE THE FREE QUIZ! Discover your unique Decluttering Style and get personalized tips that actually work for YOU. 👉 Somewhere right now, there’s a decorative ceramic rooster sitting in the back of a closet—kept out of guilt, obligation, or fear of hurting someone’s feelings. In today’s...
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337: Sentimentality, Letting Go, and What Home Teaches Us with Andrew Wells
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336: The 10-Minute Reset That Saves Your Sanity This December
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📚 PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK! Making Home Your Happy Place: The Real Life Guide to Decluttering Without the Overwhelm releases February 17th! Pre-order now and receive exclusive bonus goodies—simple, supportive tools you can apply right away through the holiday season and beyond! 👉 🎯 TAKE THE FREE QUIZ! Discover your unique Decluttering Style and get personalized tips that actually work for YOU. 👉 In today’s bonus episode, we’re talking about something nearly every woman struggles with this time of year—when your home suddenly feels loud, chaotic, and like everything has...
info_outlineIn this powerful, hope-filled episode, I sit down with Dr. Ann-Louise Lockhart, clinical psychologist and parenting expert, to talk about what’s really going on beneath the surface during the teen years.
She unpacks what to do when your teen shuts down, why nagging and lecturing don’t work, how to reset when you’ve lost your cool, and how to support your teen without losing yourself in the process.
From messy rooms to slammed doors and screen-time battles, this episode will give you practical tools to reconnect with your teen, regulate your own emotions, and build a stronger relationship—without the shame spiral or the power struggles.
Because behind every behavior is a need. And when you meet your child with curiosity instead of control, that’s when real change happens.
💬 Whether you're parenting a tween, teen, or just want to prepare for what's ahead, this one is a must-listen.
What You’ll Learn:
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Why the behavior you see isn't the full story (and what to focus on instead)
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How to navigate the belief → behavior gap with empathy
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The best questions to ask your teen (even when they say “I don’t know”)
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A simple strategy to reset yourself before reacting
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How to stop parenting from fear and build connection instead
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Why phones and social media are creating emotional dysregulation—and what to do about it
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When to lean in, when to back off, and how to build trust in the hardest moments
Resources Mentioned:
📘 Dr. Ann-Louise Lockhart’s new book: Love the Teen You Have
📲 Follow Dr. Ann-Louise on Instagram: @dr.annelouise.lockhart
🌐 Visit her website: www.anewdaysa.com
Resources:
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