Damour book featured on parenting podcast

A podcast episode tied to Lisa Damour’s book *The Emotional Lives of Teenagers* picked up fresh attention on X on Sept. 7 after @socworkpodcast shared a recommendation post linking listeners to the full episode. The social post itself is the reason this resurfaced today; the underlying audio is older and appears to come from *The Social Work Podcast*, which published a two-part interview with Damour about the book in February 2023. (socialworkpodcast.blogspot.com) The episode being recirculated centers on Damour’s 2023 book, whose full subtitle is *The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents*. Damour’s website describes the book as a guide to helping parents understand teenagers’ “intense and often fraught emotional lives,” and identifies it as one of her New York Times bestsellers. (drlisadamour.com) The broader reason the clip travels easily is that Damour is already a familiar name in parenting media. Her site says she hosts the “Ask Lisa” podcast, billed as a weekly show for parents of tweens and teens, and that platform has helped make her advice portable across books, podcast interviews and short social clips. (drlisadamour.com) What appears to be circulating now is not a new book launch or a new standalone Damour podcast series, but renewed sharing of an existing interview in which she discusses themes from *The Emotional Lives of Teenagers* for a parenting and social-work audience. The Social Work Podcast page for Part 1 says the conversation covers the difference between adolescent distress and adolescent mental illness, and how the COVID-19 pandemic made it harder for parents to read what was typical teen behavior. (socialworkpodcast.blogspot.com) That framing matches how Damour’s recent podcast appearances are described elsewhere. Nemours Children’s Health, in a separate episode featuring Damour, said she discussed “what’s typical, when to worry and how adults and systems can better support adolescents today.” (nemourswellbeyond.org) For readers seeing the post now, the practical point is mostly about provenance: the social recommendation is current, but the source material is archival. The full discussion is available through *The Social Work Podcast*’s February 2023 episode page, while Damour’s own site continues to direct readers to her book and to her current “Ask Lisa” podcast feed. (socialworkpodcast.blogspot.com)