When you are discouraged. We all experience discouragement. Reasons you could be discouraged right now include: having eight or more weeks left of school, and you are just over it at this point all of your friends are getting together and having fun, and...
How to get out of a funk (even if you wake up that way!) I don’t know about you, but I wake up in a funk on a semi-regular basis. Working with teen and tween girls and their moms for the past two decades (and just being a human) I have discovered that many...
STRESS ANXIETY & DEPRESSION … Three COMPLETELY NORMAL emotions for tween and teen girls (and EVERYONE) especially during COVID times! I am not a therapist, I am a confidence coach. The purpose of this article is to give girls accurate understanding of the...
When Life Doesn’t Go Your Way… Yesterday, I posted a conversation starter in a Facebook group. In my wildest dreams, I would not have thought anything about it except that I wanted to pique people’s interest and start a conversation. There are almost...
MY DAUGHTER HAS BIG EMOTIONS (and let’s face it, so do I!) This specific situation happened about a year ago in our household. However, since that time, it has played itself out, over and over and over again, in many different ways. I have three...
Let’s talk about COVID-19 and your kiddos. Back at the beginning of COVID I wrote a blog post about how to help your kiddo stay active during quarantine. It still holds up – but we were (I was) SO NAIVE back then, and so here we are seven months later, and...
