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.
How to Use Giving and Receiving for Self-Care
Your awareness of your relationship to giving and receiving can help you make decisions, set intentions, and initiate self-care.
12 Ways to Practice Gratitude
What does gratitude mean to you? What does appreciation mean to you? Keep reading for 12 Ways to Practice Gratitude and Appreciation.
How To Be A Positivity Dork
If I see another t-shirt tell me to force a smile on my face, it’s on. The only thing worse than having an awful day is spending energy pretending it isn’t one. Today’s trends of relentless positivity not only irritate me, but wickedly twist what a positive outlook on life can actually be.
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.
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.