Her Emotions. My Emotions. Because sometimes parenting a teenage girl feels like living in a jungle. One minute she’s laughing in the kitchen, telling you a story for approximately 147 minutes. The next, she’s slamming a door. Then she wants a snack, but...

When Self-Criticism Is Her Motivation How do you support your teen daughter without taking away her drive? If you have a teen daughter who is in sport, performance, or competition of any kind, you may have thought this more than once: “She is so hard...

Can I Handle This? A Powerful Mindset Shift for Teen Athletes Recovering From Injury When something difficult happens (like an injury), it’s natural to ask ourselves all kinds of questions. Often they begin with what if…  What if I can’t play again…. What...

When Your Teen Is Hurting, You Feel It Too Recently, I signed my teen up for a program he was genuinely excited about. He had been wanting to learn special-effects makeup, and we found a program that looked like a great fit. At first, there was plenty of...

What the New Spider-Man Movie Taught Me About Healing From Injury (Spider-Man spoilers ahead! Nothing major, but if you haven’t watched it yet and want to go in completely spoiler-free, bookmark this article and come back afterward.) I wasn’t...

Is Your Teen Avoiding Her Sports Injury? Here's Why That Might Be Okay When your teen isn’t ready to talk about her sports injury.  It’s heartbreaking to watch your daughter suffer, at any age. If you’re noticing that ever since her sports injury,...

How Teen Girl Athletes Can Use Visualization During Injury Recovery The strongest muscle I trained for this tournament wasn’t my legs….  Last week, I had the privilege of competing at Ball Hockey Nationals with an incredible group of women. It...

Why Injury Recovery Feels So Exhausting for Teen Girl Athletes If you’re a teen girl athlete reading this while you’re injured, I want to start by saying something I believe doesn’t get said nearly enough: This is hard. Really hard. Not...

Your Feelings Are Not Who You Are: A Different Way to Navigate Injury Recovery Those words rang in my ears as I listened to an interview with Jay Shetty and Joe Dispenza: “The way you feel is not who you are.” As a psychologist who works with...

When Injuries Keep Showing Up: Looking Beyond the Physical Why do some teen girl athletes struggle with repeated injuries?  When we talk about injury for teen girl athletes, we usually focus on the physical. A muscle was overworked.The hit jostled the...