Teen Mental Health: Why We Need To Rethink Our Approach with Leigh Schoener
Update: 2025-08-25
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Episode Highlights With Leigh
- What we are seeing with the epidemic of teen mental health issues
- Her theory about the teen years, expectations, hormones and other factors that contribute
- When the pressure gets so high for teens that they’re almost taught not to show up as themselves and to suppress certain emotions
- Are we overmedicating teenagers especially?
- I am vs I feel, and an integrative approach to helping kids build this skill
- The gut connection and how we house a lot of hormones in our gut, as well as most of our immune system
- The vagus nerve connection
- How to support circadian rhythms in teens and how this can have a huge impact
- Her advice to parents in how to navigate this
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