Today I’m sharing some thoughts I’ve been sitting with as I look at what’s happening in the world, and in everyday life. I keep coming back to the same idea: we’re missing clear pathways into adulthood. This episode is about what initiation is, what changes when young people are actually guided through it, and why rites of passage is at the heart of what we do at Guided Passages.

Key takeaways:

• New freedoms come with new responsibilities: adulthood isn’t a free-for-all—it’s a role with impact, power, and accountability
• Initiated vs. uninitiated adulthood: what maturity looks like in real life (regulation, repair, boundaries, integrity, contribution)
• Why rites of passage matter: without healthy thresholds, people often create their own—sometimes in risky or destructive ways
• A simple framework: severance → threshold → incorporation (and why being witnessed matters)
• Why nature + mentorship are essential teachers: the land as mirror, truth-teller, and reconnecting force—and mentors who “light the path”

Guided Passages Summer 2026 Rites of Passage Trips

Middle School Trip (incoming 7th–incoming 9th): 5-day Marble Mountain Wilderness backpacking trek + 6-hour solo
High School Girls (ages 15–18): 7-day trek + 24-hour solo

Learn More: Wilderness Trips - Guided Passages

Free Workshop: The Teen Confidence Breakthrough

Thursday, January 22 at 10:00am Pacific
How to help your teen or young adult move from anxiety and avoidance to confidence and action.

RSVP Here: https://youth.guided-passages.com/teen-confidence-breakthrough-live-workshop-january

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)

This week, I’m continuing my four-part mini series, The Up Level Reset: Four Simple Shifts for a Stronger 2026 created to help you start the new year feeling intentional and grounded.

This is Week 2, and we’re going a level deeper.
If last week was about where you place your attention, this week is about what you believe, about yourself, your life, your teen, and what’s possible for you in 2026.

I talk about how beliefs act like an invisible blueprint, how they shape your emotions and choices, and how to start rewriting the stories that keep you stuck so you can step into a more expansive version of yourself in the new year.

If you haven’t listened to Week 1: The Focus Shift yet, I recommend starting there first — this series is designed to build week by week.

In this episode, I cover:

• How beliefs quietly shape what you notice, expect, and believe is possible
• Why your current perception is often limited by past experiences and conditioning
• How to spot limiting beliefs in moments of stuckness or overwhelm and use bridge beliefs to shift into more supportive thinking
• A simple look at thought work and the CBT TEB cycle (Thoughts → Emotions → Behaviors → Results)
• Tools from Byron Katie, Martha Beck, and Brené Brown to question painful thoughts and choose a kinder, truer story for 2026

At its core, this is identity and belief work:
When you change the story, you change what becomes possible next.

Journal Prompts

1. Where in my life might I be seeing only a limited slice of reality right now? What is another, more supportive possibility I haven’t fully considered yet?
2. When I feel stuck, overwhelmed, or discouraged, what is the thought underneath it? What am I believing right now that is making this feel impossible?
3. Choose one stressful thought and walk it through Byron Katie’s questions, then write one turnaround that feels honest and helpful.
4. What’s a story I’ve been living inside lately — about myself, my teen, my relationships, or the future? What might be a kinder, truer, or more empowering story I want to bring into 2026?

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)

Each of these offerings is designed to support deeper confidence, emotional awareness, purpose, and connection — so you and your teen can step into 2026 feeling more grounded, empowered, and aligned.

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.

Follow me for more on Instagram:
@jasmyne.guidedpassages

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