If you want your teen to actually come to you, especially when things get messy, these 10 communication pitfalls are the patterns to notice, interrupt, and replace with more connected communication. In this short episode, we’re talking about the subtle habits that can create disconnection and erode trust with your teen, often without us realizing it.

The 10 Communication Pitfalls:

• Fixing / advising in the meltdown moment
• Minimizing
• Guilt trips
• Boundary policing + micromanaging
• Needing to be right
• Labels + “always/never” statements
• Not apologizing / not repairing
• Silent treatment / passive-aggressive energy
• Losing your cool
• Critiquing + lecturing

Join Me Inside Skool

Want support practicing these shifts in real time—plus tools, coaching, and a community that gets it? Come join Parents of Teens Rising Circle inside the Skool app. A few $7/month founder spots are still available (once they’re gone, that price is gone).

👉 Join here: https://www.skool.com/rooted-in-connection-1711/about?ref=4ed96d121fb84aaf97b6f1db9dcf534a

In Part 4 of The Up-Level Reset, I'm closing out the mini-series with a powerful identity shift for 2026 because real change doesn’t stick when it’s built on pressure, willpower, or all-or-nothing resolutions. This episode helps you shift from outcome-based goals (“I need to fix this”) to identity-based change (“I’m the kind of person who…”), so your habits actually have somewhere to live. We’ll also uncover the feeling beneath your goals, explore how tiny, repeated wins rewire your brain over time, and end with a guided visualization to help you step into the version of you you’re becoming.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Why most New Year’s resolutions fail (outcome-based, all-or-nothing, willpower-driven)
• The real root of lasting change: identity-based change
• How your identity shapes what you notice, choose, and repeat (especially in parenting)
• The “feeling beneath the goal” (calm, connection, confidence, freedom, peace, etc.)
• Becoming an “energetic match” for that feeling now through small daily rituals
• The neuroscience of change: tiny repeated wins + repetition = rewired pathways
• “New year, truer me” (instead of “new year, new me”)
• Guided visualization: your future self, your home energy, and how you show up as a parent

Journal prompts (from the episode):

1. Old identity to release: What identity are you ready to retire—and how has it limited you or your family?
2. Who you’re becoming: Write 3 statements that begin with “I am…” (as a human + as a parent).
3. Feeling you’re calling in: What core feeling do you want more of in 2026—and one practical way to practice it this week?
4. Smallest next step: What does your future self do regularly—and what’s the smallest version you can start this week?

Join the Parents of Teens Rising Circle Community (Inside Skool)

If you're feeling ready for some ongoing parenting support, real tools, and a community that's navigating the same things you are, come join us inside the Parents of Teens Rising Circle Community hosted in the Skool app.

Inside, you’ll get the full Rooted in Connection course dripped out over the next few months, monthly, live Zoom workshops with Q&A, and hot seat coaching, and a growing resource library of scripts + nervous system tools, so you don’t have to do this alone.

👉 Join here: Parents of Teens Rising Circle

We’re in Week 3 of my 4-part mini series, The Up Level Reset: Four Simple Shifts for a Stronger 2026, created to help you (and me) head into the new year with more clarity, alignment, and self-trust.

Part 1 – The Focus Shift: How where you place your attention shapes your emotional world and relationships.
Part 2 – Upgrade Your Beliefs: Questioning the stories that limit you and choosing thoughts that expand what’s possible.
In this Christmas Eve episode, Part 3 – Courage & Trust, we’re talking about listening to your inner voice, laying down what you were never meant to carry alone, and taking aligned action toward the life that’s calling you in 2026.

In this episode, I talk about:

• The difference between all the noise of stress, obligation, expectations, and mental load, and the quiet inner voice of intuition that keeps nudging you toward what’s true for you
• The mental, emotional, and logistical load parents carry (especially moms), and the beliefs underneath it that keep you holding more than you were meant to hold
• What it looks like to choose courage over comfort in small, everyday ways: telling the truth, simplifying, asking for help, and taking steps toward what you really want
• How to take aligned action and treat your next steps as a partnership between you, your inner wisdom, and something bigger (life/the Universe/God) as you step into 2026

Journal Prompts for Part 3: Courage & Trust

1. Where have I been hearing a quiet inner nudge lately — about rest, change, creativity, boundaries, or next steps?
   What has that voice been trying to tell me?
2. What mental, emotional, or logistical loads am I carrying right now that feel especially heavy?
   What beliefs sit underneath those loads (for example, “If I don’t hold it all, everything will fall apart”)?
3. Where in my life am I choosing comfort over growth, even though a part of me knows I’m meant for something more?
   What is one small, courageous step I’m willing to take this week — even if I still feel nervous?
4. If I trusted that I was supported — by life, by the Universe, by something bigger, and by my own future self — what is one aligned action I would take as I move into 2026?
   What would it look like to say yes to that?

Guided Meditations & Affirmations

Want support with staying consistent on the 5-minute daily affirmation/meditation challenge?

👉 YouTube Playlist (Guided Meditations & Affirmations)

Let’s Stay Connected

I’d love to hear your biggest takeaway or how your belief reset is going as we close out 2025.

👉 Come say Hi on Instagram:
@jasmyne.guidedpassages

Send me a DM and let me know what story you’re choosing to release and what new story you’re stepping into for 2026.

Want to Learn How We Can Work Together?

If you’re feeling called to go deeper — for yourself, your teen, or your whole family — here are a few ways we can connect beyond the podcast:

• Coaching for Teens & Young Adults (Rise Up / Ignite)
• Parent Coaching & Support (Rooted in Connection)
• Wilderness Rites of Passage Trips
• Youth Connect (In Person Teen Circles, Ashland, OR)