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Parenting Teens While Navigating Perimenopause: One Mom’s Honest Story

**Can't Tap Out: One Mom on Single Parenting, Perimenopause, and Repair** What happens when your teenager is deep in puberty, your tween is just starting to feel the first shifts — and meanwhile, you're navigating perimenopause on your own? In this episode, Dr. Sheryl talks with Camille, a single mom of two outside Nashville, who's living that exact season right now. They talk about what it really means to parent alone — not just the logistics, but the emotional weight of having no one to tap out to, no one to download the day to at night. They get into the "mom AND dad" myth (and why letting go of it changed everything), the strange grief that comes from giving your kids what you never had, and what it actually looks and feels like to repair yourself while you're raising them. Good Inside now supports the entire parenting journey: pregnancy, babies, big kids, tweens, and teens — because the questions change as kids grow, but parents still need support. Thank you to our partners for making this episode possible: - Kt by Knix: Use the code GOODINSIDE for 15% off period underwear

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Jun 3, 202632mWatch on YouTube ↗

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Released
June 3, 2026
Duration
32m
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Good Inside with Dr. Becky
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

**Can't Tap Out: One Mom on Single Parenting, Perimenopause, and Repair** What happens when your teenager is deep in puberty, your tween is just starting to feel the first shifts — and meanwhile, you're navigating perimenopause on your own? In this episode, Dr. Sheryl talks with Camille, a single mom of two outside Nashville, who's living that exact season right now. They talk about what it really means to parent alone — not just the logistics, but the emotional weight of having no one to tap out to, no one to download the day to at night. They get into the "mom AND dad" myth (and why letting go of it changed everything), the strange grief that comes from giving your kids what you never had, and what it actually looks and feels like to repair yourself while you're raising them. Good Inside now supports the entire parenting journey: pregnancy, babies, big kids, tweens, and teens — because the questions change as kids grow, but parents still need support. Thank you to our partners for making this episode possible:

• Kt by Knix: Use the code GOODINSIDE for 15% off period underwear

SPEAKERS

  • Dr. Sheryl

    host

    Host of The In Between Years and a doctor focused on parenting and child development.

  • Camille

    guest

    Single parent sharing her lived experience parenting tweens/teens while navigating perimenopause.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Good Inside with Dr. Becky, featuring Dr. Sheryl and Camille, Parenting Teens While Navigating Perimenopause: One Mom’s Honest Story explores single mom navigates teen puberty and perimenopause with grace daily Parenting feels uniquely chaotic when kids’ puberty and a parent’s perimenopause happen simultaneously, stretching everyone’s nervous system.

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