Behind Closed Doors

A Guide to Help Parents and Teens Navigate Through Life’s Toughest Issues

By: Jessica L. Peck

Narrated by: Jessica L. Peck

Read by the author.

Believe it or not, your kids WANT to talk to you about the social and health challenges they’re facing. But are you ready? Jessica Peck, a pediatric nurse practitioner and mom of four, helps parents escape the secrecy and shame surrounding tough conversations and approach them from a Christian foundation.

Today’s teens are feeling more isolated, anxious, and depressed than previous generations, and are struggling with more complex challenges. Jessica Peck (DNP, APRN) has spent countless hours advising and encouraging parents after talking to their teens behind closed doors. In the privacy of her exam room, she has treated teens with mental illnesses, responded to suicide attempts, treated self-harm wounds as well as the emotional trauma of cyberbullying, sexting, pornography addictions, and numerous other issues. Through it all, Jessica found that teens really want to talk to their parents but don’t know how.

Jessica seeks to move the private conversations that happen in the clinic to relationship-building conversations at home. Behind Closed Doors is a guided lifeline to help you strengthen your connection with your kids. You will be able to:

• Get professional advice on tough teenage issues from a medical perspective, as well as the true stories of patients
• Discover suggested settings, activities, and question prompts to give you conversation keys to unlock doors for open dialogue on tough issues with your teens
• Share a time of reflection with devotional readings, relevant Bible verses, Scripture-based prayers, themed music playlists, and more
• Prompts to write 12 Legacy Letters: a generational keepsake for teens

Covering topics including mental health, social media, suicide, sexting, gender identity, substance abuse (with a chapter focusing on vaping), and more, Jessica Peck's book will encourage and strengthen all parents—married, single, or divorced; grandparents, stepparents, godparents, bonus parents, adopted parents—anyone who is serving a parental role in a teen's life.

Scriptures, playlists, and resources are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

A must read for parents of teens

This book is full of practical and timely advice that can easily be incorporated into your relationship with your teen. I wish this type of resource was available when I was raising mine!

Must read for parents!

This book was recommended to me by a friend. I downloaded the audible version and began listening. There was so much I wanted to refer back to I decided to purchase the book as well. Excellent information for all parents, especially parents of teens.

Great read

This is a great read to help navigate the craziness of raising teens.

Thank you

Important handbook for raising teens!

I can’t begin to count the number of times my peers and I have asked why there aren’t more books on raising teens. There seems to be quite a few about raising babies, but very few in navigating the teen years. Look no further, this book is a very helpful guide.

I so appreciate Dr. Peck’s perspective and advice on things that she sees “behind the office door.” It was incredibly helpful to learn new ways to have the tough conversations we face today. Some of which I didn’t even know in need to have. To hear a clinical perspective feels like a unique edge in this tough job we call parenting.

The audible is so soothing to listen to but I just purchased a hard copy to be able to refer to often.

Thank you for this perspective, Dr. Peck.