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3 mindfulness exercises to help tweens deal with stress and anxiety
“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn Whether it’s dealing with pressures at school, homework, sports, family responsibilities or trying to create time for friends, today’s tweens are busy! Throughout my years of teaching yoga and mindfulness to tweens, I learned what considerable stress they can be under… Read More »
How to Help your Tween Girl Have a Confident New Year
Inside: Three ways to support your tween daughter in building her confidence, overcoming her challenges and improving your communication. * This post was updated in January 2020 with new info and resources * Get organized, set goals and build a positive mindset with the FREE Chakra Girls 2020 Confidence Quickstart Bundle! It includes: January 2020 monthly… Read More »
Empowering Chakra Girls 2019 Gift Guide
Finding gifts that strike the balance of something your girls actually want and something you can feel good about purchasing can be tough! There’s the gifts she loves, yet they make you cringe that you’re participating in the madness — like I feel when I collect the excessive, plastic garbage accumulated from my daughter’s ‘unboxing-style’… Read More »
What Does the Moodiness of your Daughter Really Mean?
Do you remember the tornado of emotions you put your parents through when you were a tween? Over time our memories might trick us into thinking that we weren’t as much of a roller coaster ride as our daughters put us on, but yes, WE were that intense, too! It’s so important to remember that… Read More »
How to Help your Daughter Manage Big Emotions
Your daughter’s moods will rise and fall like the tides. Teach her how to ride the waves of her mind. The tools you give her now will be the ones she carries with her throughout her life. I know how hard it is to see your daughter struggle with difficult emotions and not know how… Read More »
Creative ways to help your tween girl manage her emotions
*** Updated August 2019 with new ideas and resources *** Dear Carly, In the past month, I’ve seen my tween girl going through a lot of changes with her moods – it seriously seems like it happened over night! One day, she was cheerful and agreeable and now she’s happy one minute and devastated about… Read More »
How to be a Calm, Happy Mom: 108 ideas to Empower Moms of Girls
Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation. – Lydia H. Sigourney The potential is exciting, right? Instead of getting caught up with the latest parenting techniques, we just need to focus on what we want for our children and strive to become those things ourselves. It’s… Read More »
How to Build a Strong Mother-Daughter Relationship with your Tween
“Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.” – Dalai Lama (this post was updated March 2019 to offer more information and new, supporting resources) *** ‘Wait, Is that an eye roll I just saw?’ Uh oh. You’ve made it through some challenging milestones of parenting. The… Read More »
