The Case for Firsthand Language
I have to fill you in on my week, my client Hillary said. Not much happening at work. But OMG my friends. The pickleball drama. I had everyone over for bagels and Champagne on Saturday before Porch Fest. It was…
The Penguin Cliff and Your Bratty Teenager
I recently watched a National Geographic video - first time ever recorded - of 700 emperor penguin chicks in Antarctica making their inaugural trek to the water. Climate change has made the journey harder. What used to be a 1-2…
How To Balance School and Sports as a High Performing Student Athlete
When a high achieving student is also a high performing athlete, they often wind up grappling with a unique set of challenges. The worlds of academics and athletics can be demanding, intense, and fiercely competitive in their own right—and these…
Team Sports vs Individual Sports: How They (and You!) Can Support Your Teen’s Mental Health
Teen mental health in the US is impacted by a number of factors—parental influence, household income, geographic location, social influence, and more. And in the 2020s, it’s also been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, a highly-divisive political environment, and the…
A Mental Health Crisis Is Brewing—And It’s Impacting High-Achieving Teens, Too.
To get a clear picture of the teen mental health crisis in the United States, we need only glance at new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey (ABES), conducted just last year…