I created this blog when I found myself immersed in teen culture while building a health website called bodimojo.com. I found that so many issues have come up that send me straight back to my own upbringing – and I marvel that I, and my friends, survived adolescence in the early 80’s (big hair and all). Raising two girls who are on the brink of teenhood has been another inspiration and amusement, but I try my best to keep them directly out of my digital musings for fear of future blackmail. Indirectly, they’re here.
As a whole our family of four spans several generations: Dad (Baby Boomer), Mom (Gen X), Elder Tween (Gen Y) and the Younger (Gen Z). Since the old is often new… think Beatles, love and peace bling, among others, I can’t help but throw off my professional cloak now and again (I’m a clinical psychologist if you must know, but don’t let that scare you) to write about adolescence from my multiple roles in life as harried mother, wife, therapist and technophile. I do find myself – more often than not – looking out from my window heaving a deep sigh of acceptance: What goes around comes around.
For those of you interested in my professional side, you can find me here: www.womeninsight.com/bio and check out www.bodimojo.com/blog where I post, too. What I love about my work – and that which I hope to nurture as I focus on adolescent health and culture – are some of the seemingly far out but basic tenets of the mind-body connection. In some ways it seems like kids (and parents) today are much more connected and self-aware – yet simultaneously so distracted and disoriented. Our fast-paced, media-infused culture forces precociousness beyond adolescent years, when in fact those brilliant, budding teen brains and bodies are still morphing their way to maturity. Through my Teens In Balance blog I hope to bring awareness to some of these modern paradoxes. I hope you’ll join me in conversation.
