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Perimenopause and puberty are happening in the same house, at the same time, in opposite directions. Amy Young is the pediatric nurse who connects them.
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CREDENTIAL
Pediatric nurse, 18+ years
THE BOOK
Hormones and Hairties, January 2027
BASED IN
Attleboro, MA. Boston and Providence markets
MEDIA CONNECT
BIOS
Three lengths, ready to copy
Use whichever fits your format. Third person unless you need her voice for a host read-in.
SHORT - 50 WORDS
Amy Young is a pediatric nurse with more than eighteen years of experience and the author of Hormones and Hairties: Raising Teen Girls Without Losing Your Mind. She writes and speaks about the collision nobody names: perimenopause and puberty, arriving in the same household at the same time.
MEDIUM - 100 WORDS
Amy Young is a pediatric nurse with more than eighteen years of experience and the author of Hormones and Hairties: Raising Teen Girls Without Losing Your Mind.
The parenting world treats a teenage daughter as one problem. The women’s health world treats perimenopause as another. Amy connects them, because in most houses they are happening at once, in opposite directions, to two people who love each other and are both certain the other one is the problem.
Her ABC framework (Acknowledge, Boundaries, Care Plan) gives mothers something to actually do at 11pm on a Tuesday. She lives in Attleboro, Massachusetts, and is raising two teenage daughters with her husband.
LONG - 220 WORDS
Amy Young is a pediatric nurse with more than eighteen years of experience and the author of Hormones and Hairties: Raising Teen Girls Without Losing Your Mind.
She writes about a problem that rarely gets named out loud. A mother in her forties and her teenage daughter are often moving through the same six symptoms at the same time: hormone shifts, mood swings, sleep disruption, anxiety, irritability and body changes. One set of hormones is climbing. The other is falling. They share one roof, and we hand the mother one set of advice and the daughter another, as though the two were unrelated.
Almost nobody addresses the collision, which is where the true ride is actually happening.
Her vantage point is specific. Years in pediatrics mean she has heard what teenage girls say when their mothers are not in the room, and why. Her book turns that into a framework mothers can use, written by someone who has been there rather than someone lecturing from a clinic: Acknowledge what is actually happening, set Boundaries that survive contact with a real teenager, and build a Care Plan for both people, not just the one who is easier to worry about.
Hormones and Hairties publishes January 12, 2027. Amy speaks to audiences of women, and to the organizations that employ them, about parenting through the teen years, the reality of perimenopause, and why a regulated mother is the most powerful tool in the house.
She lives in Attleboro, Massachusetts, and is raising two teenage daughters with her husband.
PHOTOS
Headshots
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INTERVIEW TOPICS
Five ways into the conversation
The collision
What is actually happening in a forty-something body and a thirteen-year-old body at the same time, and why the two of them keep reading each other as the enemy.
Why "push through" fails both of them
The same dismissal, handed to teenage girls and to women in perimenopause, teaches two generations to hide what they feel.
THE BOOK
Hormones and Hairties
Raising Teen Girls Without Losing Your Mind
Your daughter is crying and can't tell you why. You are furious at the sound of someone chewing and can't tell anyone why. Neither of you is being dramatic. You are two people running on hormones moving in opposite directions, sharing a bathroom.
Hormones and Hairties is the book for the mother who has read the parenting advice and the perimenopause advice and noticed that nobody is writing about both at once. Drawing on more than eighteen years as a pediatric nurse and an uncomfortable amount of personal experience, Amy Young lays out what is actually happening in both bodies, why the standard advice keeps failing, and what to do instead.
The ABC framework (Acknowledge, Boundaries, Care Plan) is built for real households, not ideal ones. It won't make you a perfect parent. It will make you a regulated one, which turns out to be most of the job.
PUBLICATION
January 12, 2027
ISBN, PAPERBACK
979-8-9981151-1-0
ISBN, EBOOK
979-8-9981151-2-7
ISBN, HARDCOVER
979-8-9981151-0-3
ISBN, AUDIOBOOK
979-8-9981151-3-4
LCCN
2026924349
AVAILABLE
FORMATS
Paperback, hardcover, ebook, audiobook
Amazon, and by order from any bookstore or library
The regulated mother
Why a calm adult is a safe adult, and how to regulate yourself when your own hormones are working against you.
The woman carrying both, at work
Perimenopause and a teenager, managed in near-total silence by high-performing women in their forties.
What girls tell a nurse
An exam-room vantage point, kept general, on why daughters go quiet at home and what gets them talking again.
PUBLISHER
Parking Lot Press
QUESTIONS TO ASK
Steal any of these
What do you mean when you say perimenopause and puberty are the same problem?
You're a pediatric nurse. Why write a book for the mothers instead of the kids?
What is the single most common thing mothers get wrong about what's happening to their teenage daughters?
What do teenage girls tell you that they won't tell their own mothers, and why?
What is the ABC framework, and what does it look like on a bad Tuesday night?
You say a regulated mother is the most powerful tool in the house. What does regulation mean when you're running on four hours of sleep?
What is the worst advice currently circulating about parenting teenage girls?
How do you talk to your daughter about her body when you're not sure what's happening in your own?
What should a partner, a school, or an employer understand about the woman carrying both of these at once?
What is one thing a listener can do tonight?
IN HER WORDS
Pull quotes
"Her estrogen is climbing. Yours is falling. You are both dysregulated, in the same kitchen, both certain the other one is the problem.”
"Teenage girls will tell a nurse things they will not tell their mothers. Not because they love their mothers less. Because they are protecting them."
Speaking and workshops
TALKS
"The fix is not becoming a perfect parent. It is becoming a regulated one. A calm adult is a safe one, and a safe one gets told the truth."
"You cannot lecture a dysregulated teenager into regulation. You can only show her what it looks like."
WORK WITH AMY
Amy speaks to audiences of women, and to the organizations that employ them.
The Collision
Keynote | 30 to 45 minutes
What is happening in both bodies, why the household feels like a war zone, and what to do about it. For women's groups, parent audiences, libraries and conferences.
The Woman Carrying Both
Talk or panel | 30 to 45 minutes
Perimenopause and a teenager at home, carried at the same time and in silence by some of your most reliable people. For employee resource groups, women's leadership networks and wellness programs.
"'It's just hormones, push through' means the same thing to a thirteen-year-old and to a forty-five-year-old: your very real experience is an inconvenience, so please make it quieter."
WORKHOPS
The Regulated Mother
Workshop | 60 to 90 minutes
The ABC framework, applied: Acknowledge, Boundaries, Care Plan. Participants practice the language and leave with words they can use the same night.
Neither One of You is Crazy
Workshop | 60 to 90 minutes
The six symptoms mothers and daughters share, a side-by-side checklist for both, and a plan for the next hard conversation. Participants leave with the checklist filled in.