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With Founder and Coach Jasmyne Chandler: Empowering Teens, Young Adults & Parents to step into Confidence, Connection, and Courage.

⭐️Coaching for Teens, YA & Parents
🎙️Host of Parents & Teens Rising Podcast
⛺️Wilderness Rites of Passage Trips 4 Youth Guided Passages, led by Founder and Certified Professional Life Coach, Jasmyne Chandler, empowers Young People to meet these changing times with co

nfidence, connection, and courage by helping them to connect to themselves, to others and to the Earth.

If your teen freezes up before school, avoids social situations, or spirals into what-if thinking, this one's for you. 💛...
09/10/2026

If your teen freezes up before school, avoids social situations, or spirals into what-if thinking, this one's for you. 💛

Pep talks and reassurance so often fall flat, and there's a reason for that.

Anxiety isn't a logic problem. It's a body-first experience. Which means you can't reason your teen out of it, no matter how well-thought-out your speech is.

In this week's episode I'm walking through what's actually happening beneath the surface: why some teens' alarm systems run louder than others, how the pandemic disrupted key years of social practice, why LGBTQIA+ and marginalized teens often carry an extra layer of anxiety, and what the latest data tells us about this very real, very growing trend.

We'll also get into the difference between functional worry and concerning anxiety, and why body-based tools like breathing and grounding have to come before any thinking tool can actually land.

If you've been trying to talk your teen out of their anxiety and wondering why it's not working, I think this episode is going to shift something for you.

🎧 Link in bio to listen to Episode #54 or stream the Parents & Teens Rising Podcast on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube.

📘 Grab my free guide, 5 Steps to Help Your Anxious Teen: Comment "Anxiety" below, and I'll send it to you or grab at the link in my bio.

It all starts next week!Guided Passages Youth Connect program is a space for teens to hang out after school that fosters...
09/09/2026

It all starts next week!

Guided Passages Youth Connect program is a space for teens to hang out after school that fosters connection, belonging, and authenticity.

It’s a place to make new friends, to stretch themselves, and to receive mentorship and support from facilitators and high school volunteer mentors.

Join us for games, projects, making food, snacks, and real conversations.

First meet-up is Wed. Sept 16th from 4:30-6:30 in Ashland.

Link to sign up in my bio. 🙌🏼💜

Confidence is built through so many things. It’s facing challenges and persevering. It’s following through on what you s...
09/09/2026

Confidence is built through so many things.

It’s facing challenges and persevering.

It’s following through on what you say you’ll do and building trust in yourself.

It’s knowing your own worth and loving yourself for who you are.

It’s being in an environment that builds you up instead of tearing you down.

But the algorithms our teen daughters get trapped in on social media are the opposite of building them up.

They are designed to make them question themselves, compare themselves, fix themselves, and identify problems they never knew existed.

To address self-esteem problems, we have to start looking at the whole picture.

Save this, share it with a parent who needs it, and follow Jasmyne Chandler | Teen & Parent Coach | M.Ed. ICF for more.

09/05/2026

You know that anxious spiral where your brain won't stop racing?

Martha Beck's book Beyond Anxiety explains why: anxiety keeps you stuck in your amygdala, in fight, flight, or freeze, with limited access to the prefrontal cortex where emotional regulation happens.

Creativity pulls you the other direction.

Putting your hands to work, thinking about color or design, or building something moves you back into that prefrontal cortex and out of survival mode.

Try it today: pick up something creative and notice what happens to your anxious thoughts.

Drop a ❤️below if this has worked for you or if you're gonna give it a try.

This is the invisible labor of parenting a teenager, and most days no one claps for it but you. You show up in a hundred...
09/04/2026

This is the invisible labor of parenting a teenager, and most days no one claps for it but you.

You show up in a hundred small ways that never make it into a highlight reel, and none of them get a thank you in the moment.

But they add up.

They are the reason your teen still has a safe place to land, and that matters more than they can understand right now.

With you on the journey and cheering you on! 👏🏼🎉

This week's episode is a little different. 💛I've been feeling all the feelings lately, so I wanted to be honest about wh...
09/03/2026

This week's episode is a little different. 💛

I've been feeling all the feelings lately, so I wanted to be honest about what it actually looks like for me to navigate hard seasons as a parent because I know a lot of you are navigating hard moments too.

One thing I know for sure is that we don't have to have it all together all the time. It's okay to fall apart a little, it's okay to feel it, and to just do our best to continue to show up for the people who need us.

If you're feeling the weight of things right now, personally or in the world around you, I hope this is a reminder that you're not alone in it.

🎧 Link for Episode 53 is in my bio or stream on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube

This one’s for all the Moms and Dads out there who just sent their kids off to college or their next adventure. Right th...
09/01/2026

This one’s for all the Moms and Dads out there who just sent their kids off to college or their next adventure.

Right there with you and just trying to hold it together and trust that everything’s gonna be okay.

Big hugs. 🫂😢💗

08/29/2026

Do you ever wonder why your teen goes quiet the second you walk into the room?⁠
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Parent coach Samantha Straub says it might come down to pressure, and not the kind you'd expect. ⁠
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On this week's episode of Parents & Teens Rising, she talks about how often parents turn the rare moments their teen is around into a checklist. ⁠
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Are their chores done? What's the status on that assignment? Did they remember to do the thing you asked three times?⁠
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Sam points out that teens are only available so often, and when every interaction becomes a chance to review their responsibilities, it starts to feel like pressure instead of connection. ⁠
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She says the moments that actually build relationships are the ones with no agenda at all, like just being in the kitchen together with nothing to accomplish.⁠
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Listen to the full episode #52, link in bio or stream on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube.

Here are a few gems from my interview with Dr. Melissa Wellner and Samantha Straub. This conversation was so good, and y...
08/29/2026

Here are a few gems from my interview with Dr. Melissa Wellner and Samantha Straub.

This conversation was so good, and you don’t want to miss it.

Listen to the full episode #52. Link in bio or stream on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube

08/28/2026

What's under the surface of teen substance use?

That's one of the questions Dr. Melissa Wellner and Samantha Straub dig into on this week's episode of Parents & Teens Rising.

Melissa points out that substance use itself isn't usually the whole story.

Sometimes it's tied to a mental health concern, sometimes it's not, and every teen's situation looks different.

What matters most, she says, is getting curious instead of jumping straight to a consequence.

Behaviors almost always have something underneath them, and ma*****na or va**ng is often just the visible part.

Listen to the full episode #52. Link in bio or stream on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube.

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Ashland, OR
97520

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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+15417083609

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