Love Her Well: 10 Ways to Find Joy and Connection with Your Teenage Daughter

Now an ECPA Best Seller--Kari Kampakis's Love Her Well gives moms ten practical tips for how to build strong and lasting relationships with their daughters.

For many women, having a baby girl is a dream come true. But as girls grow up, the narrative of innocence and joy changes to one of dread as moms are told, "Just wait until she's a teenager!" and handed a disheartening and too-often-true script about a daughter's teenage season of life.

Author, blogger, and mom to four daughters Kari Kampakis thinks it's time to change the narrative and mind-set that leads moms to parent teen girls with a spirit of defeat instead of strength. Love Her Well isn't a guide to help mothers "fix" their daughters or make them behave. It's about a mom's journey, doing the heart-work necessary to love a teenager while still being a steady, supportive parent. Kari offers wisdom about how moms can:

• Choose their words and timing carefully.
• Listen and empathize with her teen's world.
• See the good, and love her for who she is.
• Take care of themselves and find a support system in the process.

By working on the foundation, habits, and dynamics of the relationship; mothers can connect with their teen daughters and earn a voice in their lives that allows moms to offer guidance, love, wisdom, and emotional support.

Kari gives mothers hope, wisdom, and a reminder that all things are possible through God, who is the source of the guidance and clarity they need in order to grow strong relationships with their daughters at every age--especially during the critical teen years.

Kari Kampakis is an author and national speaker from Birmingham, Alabama. Her bestselling books--Love Her Well, More Than a Mom, 10 Ultimate Truths Girls Should Know and Liked--have been used widely across the US for group studies, and her first devotional for teen girls, Yours, Not Hers: 40 Devotions to Stop Comparisons and Love Your Life, released in January 2025.Kari's work has been featured on The TODAY Show, TODAY Parents, Focus on the Family, EWTN, Bethany Hamilton's Mother/Daughter Experience, Live in Love with Annie Downs and Lauren Akins, Live with the Louhs, Yahoo! News, Grown & Flown, Faithgateway.com, and other national outlets. She also hosts the Girl Mom podcast. Kari and her husband, Harry, have four daughters and a dog named Lola.