Unstoppable Athlete - Mental Resilience for Teen Athletes
May 13, 2026 · 29 min · 21 segments
In this episode, Sara and Michelle explore the tender and tricky stage of adolescence, when teen girls naturally begin pulling away from their mothers while forming their own identities. Through the…
And I keep thinking about how important it is for girls to have strong women, adult women that aren't their mothers because at...
This is the stage when they're naturally pulling away from us, and it's really hard on us, but we have to let them pull away from us, 'cause they don't get to be the little girls that climb into bed with us anymore, right? Well, we can hope that they'll still climb in with us sometimes, but, you know, it's just that, that piece of we have to let them pull away from us and not listen to us.
My daughter won't listen to what I say, but if you say it to her as her volleyball coach, then she listens to it, right? It's that piece that we have to be okay with.
Yep, and it's also the piece where those valuable role models in something like sport, where this is a place that those individuals wanna be, right? There's something that they're getting from belonging to the team and being in that environment that makes it even more valuable in that coach role of being a mentor, showing them this is how an adult female shows up in a leadership role.
And I, I see it all the time when the girls hang out at my kitchen table and I'm around, and sometimes my daughter's not home.
So then the things that the girls want to talk about, like they wanna tell me everything, and, you know, and we might be in the car driving or whatever, but they wanna tell me everything.
But my daughter doesn't wanna tell me that stuff right now, right? Be- but it's just that different role, and it's us as moms trying to be, to f- to learn that and be okay with that and let our girls start to lean on other women.
And I keep thinking about how important it is for girls to have strong women, adult women that aren't their mothers because at...
This is the stage when they're naturally pulling away from us, and it's really hard on us, but we have to let them pull away from us, 'cause they don't get to be the little girls that climb into bed with us anymore, right? Well, we can hope that they'll still climb in with us sometimes, but, you know, it's just that, that piece of we have to let them pull away from us and not listen to us.
My daughter won't listen to what I say, but if you say it to her as her volleyball coach, then she listens to it, right? It's that piece that we have to be okay with.
Yep, and it's also the piece where those valuable role models in something like sport, where this is a place that those individuals wanna be, right? There's something that they're getting from belonging to the team and being in that environment that makes it even more valuable in that coach role of being a mentor, showing them this is how an adult female shows up in a leadership role.
And I, I see it all the time when the girls hang out at my kitchen table and I'm around, and sometimes my daughter's not home.
So then the things that the girls want to talk about, like they wanna tell me everything, and, you know, and we might be in the car driving or whatever, but they wanna tell me everything.
But my daughter doesn't wanna tell me that stuff right now, right? Be- but it's just that different role, and it's us as moms trying to be, to f- to learn that and be okay with that and let our girls start to lean on other women.
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