no….that did not just happen
Parents love partnering with me as their teen’s life coach.
Parents are on-board with me getting the potential eye roll, look away, and/or disengagement. This allows the parents to do what they love best with their teen…..Be the mom, be the dad that just loves up on their child.
I get to be the person that shows up and asks the questions, suggests different perspectives, helps with friend issues or advice, supports with college selection, helps with understanding and managing emotions. I provide tools on how to not do the eye roll and look away, and actually communicate their feelings (even if it's hard for their parents to hear what they have to say). I provide encouragement, I got their back, I nudge them to go after what they truly want.
AND the best part is that parents get to do what they do best, which is love their teen and allow me to help their teen find their way!
rest gets a bad wrap
Our minds and bodies were not designed to go a mile a minute, non-stop.
School is a go-go-go type of atmosphere especially for teens when it comes to the end of a marking period. Teens have projects due, exams to prepare for, essays to write, after school activities, homework, and sport competitions.
let them fly
Let me tell you….it is hard to let our teens fly. It is hard to watch them fall at times, but I know deep down we need our teens to experience the life they want. Their desire will keep them motivated to pursue their dreams and enjoy the life they created instead of the life we wanted for them.
inspiring your teen by building your legacy
As parents, teens need us more than ever to be an example of what is possible. What I mean is: Start discovering or re-discovering what excites you, what inspires you, what lights you up…AND START DOING IT.
Life is awesome and sometimes it is not
I like to think about life as 50-50. 50% super awesome and 50% not so awesome. Some people like to think the 50-50 is the human experience, that we experience 50% positive emotion and 50% negative emotion. The human experience is meant to have contrast. How else would we be able to know what was super awesome if we didn’t experience not so awesome? The human experience has struggle, it is not supposed to be all rainbows and unicorns. I believe a ton of us are not even experiencing 50-50 but more so experiencing 80-20 or 90-10, more negative experiences then positive.