06/26/2023
Mentoring is such a different dynamic than parenting! 🥰😂
I absolutely adore the teens I get to mentor and am discovering how much easier it is to just be with their process when I’m not a parent attached to an outcome. Current teens went through the weirdest time in our history, at the most intense stage of their development, and I feel really honored to get to help them navigate emotions, choices, perspectives and this wild time of being alive. I feel honored to just provide empathic tuned in space, it’s a hot commodity!
I love that I can let it be different with each sweet human, sometimes it’s intuitive collage, sometimes it’s a brainstorming session about a school problem, sometimes it’s navigating romance, sometimes it’s therapeutic trips to the humane society where we talk on the way, and then pet cats. I love that I get to flow with what supports them, in an intuitive and emergent way. Last week I was playing an emotional regulation board game with a tween, and for her winning reward, she wanted to get tea from the adorable traditional tea house below my studio. The client before that was all about communicating needs and feelings to family in a way that they more can easily hear. Feelings vocabulary being one of my favorite tools in the box. Many of the teens share things with me, that they don’t want to burden their parents with, lightening the load for everyone.
To the Facebook friend, (Katie Sutherland) that referred a friend, I‘m so grateful, it’s grown by word of mouth from there and I meet with multiple teens every week. And I truly look forward to every session. 🙏🌻💓👏🏻
If you have tweens/teens in your life, I have some afternoon weekly spots open. I do virtual visits too!
