It’s Mental Health Awareness Week, an important time to share, support and get real about the issues impacting all of us: mental health conditions. Anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and many other mental health conditions don’t just happen to a select few, they impact millions of individuals around the world, not to mention their families and [...]
This week’s Weekly Wisdom is brought to you by Stress – I was inspired to write these weekly posts in order to help you manage tricky and sometimes tough situations with confidence. In my daily life, I encounter stress and feelings of overwhelming frustration often because I’m a human being (just like you). In order for [...]
Many of us are feeling more stressed and overwhelmed than ever before, and why wouldn’t we be? It’s not easy dealing with the all the responsibilities and expectations in our lives. It’s not just our personal lives, our instant gratification culture leaves us checking emails, responding to texts and worried about responding ASAP rather than our [...]
I used to really struggle with saying no to others. People pleasing was a problem; I became exhausted, insecure and really unhappy. But guess what? When I started to honor my time and energy the people in my life did too. Do you ever find it difficult to ask for what you want or have [...]
Join Emily Roberts this Saturday, May 30th at 11:00 AM for her signing of Express Yourself: A Teen Girl’s Guide to Speaking Up and Being Who You Are at BookCon in New York City. This is a great opportunity to meet the author, ask questions and get a signed copy her upcoming book before the June 1st release. [...]
We know the drill: You’ve grown increasingly bored with your look, your job or your hobbies, or maybe all three and need to boost confidence. You struggle to find an effective form of self-expression, and you’re wondering where to go from here. You’ve read the self-help titles, but nothing seems to stick. How do you [...]
This is your wake-up call—literally. For years, we have known that sleep deprivation is bad for our health, but a new study shows that lack of beauty sleep actually destroys brain cells. A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that staying awake kills brain cells in mice, and researchers suggest it may do the same [...]
You likely have someone in mind right now, someone who makes you feel frustrated or disrespected. Talking with confidence can be difficult with mean, frustrating, aggressive, manipulative or down right rude people. No matter how you say it, they make you feel bad about yourself, especially in teen girl friendships. Learning how to feel confident [...]
It’s hard to find the right book for your daughter, especailly when she gets her stress-reduction from Instagram or texting with friends. The truth is, many teen girls I work with don’t know the first thing about building self-confidence unless it involves how many likes their selfie generated. Nor do they know what to do [...]
