Caroline Shankle: What Your Daughter Actually Needs From You, A 22-Year-Old Tells Moms the Truth EP: 223

This episode is unlike any other this season. Instead of hearing from a seasoned mom, Kate and Rebecca sit down with someone who just lived the teenage years, and has the book to prove it.

Caroline Shankle is a 22-year-old author, Texas A&M graduate student, and daughter of bestselling author and Big Boo podcast host Melanie Shankle. She survived mean girls, soccer injuries, heartbreak, and the anxious pressure of being a teenager in the social media age, then wrote a 100-day devotional to help the next girl do the same. The Lion and the Bear is a young woman’s compassionate guidebook for defeating life’s giants by trusting God one step at a time, written from the trenches, not a distant pedestal.

This episode is a gift to every mom raising a daughter, and every daughter who just needs to know she is not alone.

In This Episode:

• The breakup and Zoom call that became the origin story of Caroline’s book
• The lion and the bear: how David and Goliath became her framework for hard seasons
• What being a teenager in the social media age really feels like
• Holding two truths: God is good, and you can still be beat down and tired
• The mistake moms make trying to fix it too fast, and what teens need instead
• Stay out of the boat: why getting in it with your daughter wears you down
• Reading the room: why advice lands better three days later than in the moment
• What not to say when your daughter is hurting, and what actually helps
• Growing up with a mom on a public platform, without the pressure to be perfect
• The anxious generation and why this generation is wired differently
• What saved Caroline: God never wasted any of it

Caroline’s Website: https://carolineshankle.com/the-lion-and-the-bear/

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