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Connected, Yet Isolated: The Parallel Between Teens and Midlife Moms

Connected, Yet Isolated: The Parallel Between Teens and Midlife Moms

Update: 2025-12-17
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Thank you for being here - if you're new, I'm sorry, I don't typically ramble this much - haha! I am December-holidays-end-of-semester fried right now, so please excuse me as I take a bit too many words to say perhaps a bit too little. 

Don't worry - our final episode of the year will be MUCH more focused (so come back please, even if you're like WTF?? to this one!)

This episode is an honest reflection on feeling deeply connected yet quietly alone – a place many women find themselves in during midlife and parenting the teen years. Moving between lived experience, parenting observations, and relational insight, the episode explores the surprising parallel between teen loneliness and adult invisibility in a hyper-connected world.

Rather than offering solutions or tidy conclusions, this conversation sits inside the discomfort of being needed but unseen, productive but unmirrored, surrounded by people yet craving resonance. It reflects on how digital connection can replace depth, how identity shifts disrupt belonging, and why loneliness often shows up not as isolation, but as a lack of reflection.

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Connected, Yet Isolated: The Parallel Between Teens and Midlife Moms

Connected, Yet Isolated: The Parallel Between Teens and Midlife Moms

Dr. Jennifer Brubaker