Helping your teen keep anxiety at bay

Tackling the Back to School Blues is easier than you think. Mitigate stress, overwhelm and anxiety by addressing the following…

Empty Nesting: How to Survive and Thrive with Life Coach Lisa McClenahan

Today’s teens have become overwhelmed and anxiety-ridden with school work, extracurricular activities, to-do’s and social pressures. And to take it a step further, they don’t know how to relax, ‘shake it off’, or decompress. They continue to carry around the overwhelm, worry and pressure until it evolves into something bigger. Often, in my coaching practice, […]

How to help your teenager with social anxiety.

Your Teen’s Mindset: What to look out for and how to shift it

Behind feelings of stress, overwhelm and ‘not-enoughness’ there is often a mean teen – this is your teenager’s critical inner voice. And from this voice come critical words and harsh judgements. This is the voice of Self Criticism. What exactly is Self Criticism? Self criticism is that voice inside that speaks to you critically. It […]

Your teen is simply overloaded and has taken on too much to balance. And they are not willing to give anything up. What now?  How do we support our teens to help them loosen the grip? It’s quite a tight ‘death-grip’ they have on all of their challenging classes, extracurriculars, commitments and to-do’s. They are […]

What your teenager needs is a dose of their own ‘unique medicine’. And yes, it works like a charm… As we begin to nestle into the season of all things comfy, cozy and warm…Let us not forget that this season can be full of big feelings of stress, overwhelm, social commitments and the hustle and […]