Pamela Lowell

Feeling frustrated by your relationship with your teenager?
Craving a closer bond?
Or just trying to survive this turbulent time?

Today’s challenging world of blurred boundaries, mixed messages, and rapid change can make parents feel powerless…and alone.
In warm, prayerful, and oh-so-honest reflections, author Pamela Lowell shares the wealth of her experience as both a family counselor and a parent. She offers trustworthy inspiration and practical advice, revealing that the fiery years spent parenting teens can fuel an amazing spiritual adventure.

These daily meditations assure us that even when we feel anxious and discouraged, we are never alone.


Survival Meditations For Parents of Teenagers
By Pamela Lowell

Preface

Although I’ve given counseling advice to families with teenagers for over twenty years, parenting my own teenager has been the most humbling experience I’ve ever encountered—bar none. Many times during the preparation of this manuscript I felt like the last person in the world who should be offering spiritual advice on such a difficult topic! Despite my professional training, our family is far from perfect; we worry, we argue, we bump up against each other’s vulnerabilities, and then we apologize—all the time.
In fact, during the early months of my son’s teenager-hood, I would often sit at my computer, typing furiously, trying to make sense of all of the changes that he and I were going through. There on the screen, I would vent my anxieties and anger and grief, and then after each entry, I would try to write something hopeful, something God-full—to help me keep going, to try to survive. One day, when it finally seemed like we were entering into a new and better phase, I wondered if anyone else could benefit from my experiences. As it turned out, perhaps they could.