AdolEssence and Beyond

Are you wondering why your teenager is struggling to get to school, are you confused why school suddenly seems so hard. School refusal looks at what is happening for a teenager when they become overwhelmed and find it impossible to consider going to school. Taking the perspective of support and understanding we look at the term school refusal and how parents can understand this teenage presentatio...

Christmas and what it means to do nothing Introduce some new techniques over the Christmas and a simple thing of doing nothing. For for further information check in on my website www.adolessence.ie Follow me on instagram @adolessenceandbeyond or Facebook kn @adolessencetuam for daily tip

Katie Courtney performance coach gives us an insight into the importance of emotional intelligence and the crucial role it plays in understanding all aspects of sports performance. You can follow Katie on instagram @katie__Courtney For more information, visit www.adolessence.ie Following me on instagram @adolessenceandbeyond Facebook @AdolessenceTuam

An interview with fabulous May from Mays bakery Tuam meet a young entrepreneur. May who set up her bakery on April 23. May talks about her journey into baking, her challenge going to school and her expertise, and the meaning of support and belief Follow mays Bakery on instagram @maysbakery Follow me on instagram @adolessenceandbeyond Facebook @AdolessenceTuam

The parent teenage journey what’s it like to be a teenager, and what’s important about knowing your parenting style. Follow me on instagram for more instagram (@asolessenceandbeyond) Facebook @AdolessenceTuam) You can also find me in X (twitter) and LinkedIn Feel free to email me on gina@adolessence.ie Let me know what you enjoyed about this episode 👌

How to embrace your knowing. Imagine being able to say I know and that it brings about a curiosity, an openness. When we parent and work with adolescents, they need to see we know. that they are in pain that there are ways to support. It’s not about fixing or bing an expert just simply knowing. Thank you for listening today Should you want to reach out to me please feel free to do so on gina@adole...

Unleashing the power of connection: A guide to raising resilient adolescents What are the ingredients for raising teens today. What is it we really needs. Let’s look at where fear and panic take us as parents and how we can change this concept by creating the core ingredients for parenting. Thank you for listening today. Please follow me on instagram and Facebook and linktree Also feel free to ema...

Today I am speaking with Ryan Lenehan of Velocity Fitness Tuam. Ryan is a trainee strength and conditioning coach. Ryan tells me about how he started this area and how it became his passion. You can follow Ryan on Instagram on velocityfitness_tuam please follow me on (click on the links) ⁠Instagram⁠ or ⁠Facebook ⁠for helpful daily tips. If you have questions about todays episode or any other shows...

What does it mean to you to be successful or put together. What is our perspective of ourselves and others. If we can understand this, we are in a much better position to hold and hold adolescents' dilemmas and concerns please follow me on (click on the links) ⁠Instagram⁠ or ⁠Facebook ⁠for helpful daily tips. If you have questions about todays episode or any other shows, please shoot me an email o...

An interview with Kate Hildyard Yoga and Body Therapist. Learn how Catherine uses yoga to support stress, change and how her journey started in young adulthood. Have a listen to her amazing story. please follow me on (click on the links) Instagram or Facebook for helpful daily tips. If you have questions about todays episode or any other shows please shoot me an email on 📨adolessence1@gmail.com t...

As a parent, it's easy to get caught up in the many demands of life and forget about taking care of you. However, it's essential to prioritise self-care because it directly impacts our ability to care for our adolescents or young adults. Tuning in to our needs means taking a moment to check in with ourselves, acknowledging our feelings, and taking action to address them. This can be as simple as t...

Exploring your adolescent identity is an important interval part of ensuring their happiness. While we have come a long way in exploring sexuality, gender and identity, a lot of confusion still what is best for adolescents. They need help from parents who are ultimately interested in their wellbeing. Please follow me on Instagram on ⁠⁠⁠adolessence_tuam⁠⁠⁠ for daily tips and tools you can also foll...

Today's Podcast explores the resource that is yoga and mindfulness for the adolescent and parent mind, We speak with long time practitioner Charlottes on her own experience of anxiety and how yoga had become an interval part of her life. Please follow me on Instagram on ⁠⁠adolessence_tuam⁠⁠ for daily tips and tools you can also follow me on Facebook on ⁠⁠AdolessenceTuam⁠⁠ feel free to like, co...

This episode looks at how you can add to your life and in turn to your Adolescents. Keeping it simple gives you the options to add instead of taking away. Please follow me on Instagram on ⁠adolessence_tuam⁠ for daily tips and tools you can also follow me on Facebook on ⁠AdolessenceTuam⁠ feel free to like, comment or share anything you think would help someone else. If you like support or guidance...

Acceptance what does it really mean and why is it so important. Let's look at this concept and the importance of adopting it as an essential part in our lives. If we are really going to keep anxiety at bay Please follow me on Instagram on adolessence_tuam for daily tips and tools you can also follow me on Facebook on AdolessenceTuam feel free to like, comment or share anything you think would...

How to… persuade, support and nudge. Let’s look at how we can help ourselves and other to meet somewhere in the middle. Parenting is about persuasion right? Yet it often escalates into pushing, giving out, giving in. This episode looks at these dilemmas and how to work with demands expectations and challenges. Thank you for tuning into this podcast hosted by Gina Dermody. We hope you enjoyed liste...

Adolescent presentations and challenges How is your adolescent showing up , what are they really trying to tell you, how are their thoughts working. Often we need to look and listen to an adolescent to fully understand what is happening in their head. We need to be curious about their presentation, their learning style, their levels of anxiety their support statement and we have to try and meet an...

Let’s talk about showing up and what it means. We seem to have forgotten how to be real, how to get it right and wrong. Sometimes when we are rearing adolescents we are held to ransom by what we are supposed to do which means we sometimes forget to trust our own style, our gut instinct, are getting it wrong and then re setting. Tune in and let’s discover how to show up. THINGS YOU CAN DO ⬇️ You ca...

How does Asolescent Psychotherapy work? This is an overview of how Adolescent Therapy works. Listen to the various presentations, the growth and learning involves for Parent Caregiver and Adolescent THINGS YOU CAN DO ⬇️ You can follow me on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠adolessence_tuam⁠⁠⁠ or on Facebook ⁠⁠⁠AdolessenceTuam⁠⁠⁠ for daily feeds. Check out my website ⁠⁠⁠www.adolessence.ie⁠⁠⁠ for more information that...

Let’s look at how we get triggered as parents and the options we have to show up and re set. Shame and difficult experiences all form a major part of the parenting role. When we can’t erase difficult experiences what can we do? Let’s find out in todays episode. THINGS YOU CAN DO ⬇️ You can follow me on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠adolessence_tuam⁠⁠⁠ or on Facebook ⁠⁠⁠AdolessenceTuam⁠⁠⁠ for daily feeds. Check out...

How can we become better listeners for ourselves. If we understand and focus on this skill it will bring the reward of understanding our adolescents and young adults much better. We know it’s not rocket science yet it takes patience, kindness and commitment. Let me take you on a short journey of what we need to do in order fine tune our listening and how you can do it? THINGS YOU CAN DO ⬇️ You can...

Worries are something that affect us all and we know we can't get rid of them. Parenting adolescents involves lots of worry so let's figure out how we can manage and direct worries in the right direction. THINGS YOU CAN DO ⬇️ You can follow me on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠adolessence_tuam⁠⁠⁠ or on Facebook ⁠⁠⁠AdolessenceTuam⁠⁠⁠ for daily feeds. Check out my website ⁠⁠⁠www.adolessence.ie⁠⁠⁠ for more information...

Understanding the adolescent nl brain. How and why is it so irrational, lost offline and so hard to reach. Dive i to this episode and learns about where adolescents live in their brain and why it’s so different to an adults brain. Check out my website ⁠www.adolessence.ie⁠ for more information that may be of interest to you. This podcast is tailored around your comments or questions email me any qu...

ANXIETY EXPLAINED Let's talk about anxiety explained... When anxiety grows we all get held to ransom. The myth is we need to get rid of it, it’s inevitable so let’s try and understand more about the how and why if it so we can change our perspective. THINGS YOU CAN DO ⬇️ You can follow me on Instagram ⁠adolessence_tuam⁠ or on Facebook ⁠AdolessenceTuam⁠ Check out my website ⁠www.adolessence.ie⁠ for...

Host Gina Dermody Adolescent Psychotherapist founder of AdolEssence in Tuam, Co. Galway. Specializes in all things Adolescents related so this is for you the parent, the young adult and the adolescent. This podcast is for everybody, we all have something to learn about the life stages on Adolessence and Beyond so tune in! UNDERSTANDING ANXIETY This episode looks at how anxiety presents and what we...