How to Survive Homework Time with Your Teen
Parents reach out and ask, “How can we experience fewer nights of overwhelm and freak out over homework?!” And “How much should I be helping them?!”
How to Apologize to Your Teenager
When (not if) you make a “mistake,” you have an “opportunity to repair” the connection with your teenager.
How to Celebrate Your Teenager’s Zone of Genius
Your zone of genius helps you understand your strengths and actively work towards them each day.
3 Ways to Embrace and Achieve Your Goals
Throughout your work on a big goal or project, it's important to check in with your purpose, your why.
You are Not Your Family, You are YOU
While experiencing a pretty intense emotional reaction, I remembered a powerful truth: I AM NOT MY FAMILY. Their thoughts, behaviors, and actions do not belong to me, do not define me, and do not limit me.
Saying “I Need Help” is the Bravest Thing I Have Ever Done
Emotions and feelings that you’ve never experienced before can overwhelm you. That’s okay. Let them run their course. Feel your feels. But on the other side, there is always going to be a way to get the help you need.
How To Hold Kind and Firm Limits With Your Teens
Limits don’t negate choices. Limits aren’t consequences or punishment. Instead, limits help young people understand boundaries-- their own and other people’s.
Dear Parents, Your Teenager Doesn’t Need a Career Plan
The truth is, dreams come from one’s internal compass, not from external sources, pressures, or societal norms and expectations. Furthermore, teenagers need space to explore, reflect, experience, and process and come to their own truths, their own path.
How to Start A Spiritual Practice: A Quick Guide for Teenagers
Spiritual practice can be a loaded topic. For some, it refers to cherished and meaningful beliefs and practices, while for others, it’s at best an empty cliché, and at worst it represents the oppression of religious extremism.
Do Your Best in Your Friendships: The Fourth Agreement
The fourth agreement is an invitation to keep going and keep growing. Each of the previous agreements requires significant awareness, effort, and unlearning of old patterns, and the fourth agreement, the commitment to doing our best, is the glue that helps us stick to these new beliefs.