Understanding Your Daughter’s Emotional State: Fight, Flight, Freeze & Fawn

About this episode

The episode explores understanding girls' emotional states and the signs of fight, flight, freeze, or fawn behaviors in teenage daughters.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I delve into understanding girls' mental health through identifying the emotional states that your daughter might be experiencing: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. Many parents struggle to decode teenage behaviour and the behavioural messages their daughters are sending, leading to confusion and miscommunication. Using real-life examples, I explore the observable signs of each state and what each truly needs rather than common misconceptions. You’ll lea...

People in this episode

Host: Rach Friedli

Topics covered

• girls mental health
• emotional states
• parenting
• teenage behavior
• communication

Keywords

• emotional state
• fight
• flight
• freeze
• fawn
• teenage behavior
• mental health
• parenting

More episodes of Teen Whisperer Podcast: Girls Mental Health & Behaviour

• Sleep, Anxiety & Teen Girl Mental Health | What Parents Miss · June 10, 2026 · 19 min
• Teen Girl Behaviour | Reading Her Nervous System Signals · June 3, 2026 · 15 min
• Co-Regulation Starts With You | Why Your Nervous System Matters · May 27, 2026 · 18 min
• Why Teen Girls Can’t Put Their Phones Down | The Nervous System Angle · May 20, 2026 · 18 min
• Parenting Teen Girls & Phone Anxiety | Why Limits Alone Don't Work · May 13, 2026 · 16 min
• Teen Girls Anxiety: Why Nothing Has Worked And What Actually Does · May 6, 2026 · 15 min