Raising Resilient Teens with Sarah Morgan
About this episode
The episode discusses the importance of emotional resilience in preparing teens for college, featuring insights from Sarah Morgan on how beliefs shape emotions and success.
Emotional resilience may be the most overlooked part of college readiness. In this episode, Shellee Howard welcomes Sarah Morgan, school assembly speaker and founder of Resilience & Recovery, to explore how belief systems, failure, and emotional awareness shape teens’ ability to succeed in college and beyond. Sarah shares her life-changing story of surviving a traumatic accident and explains how the ABC Theory of Emotions helps students understand that events don’t control emotions—beliefs do. Together, they discuss perfectionism, social media pressure, fear of failure, and how parents can model calm, flexible thinking for their teens. This conversation offers parents practical tools and a mindset shift to help teens navigate stress, rejection, and uncertainty with confidence.
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