Mindset and Energy Coaching

High school and college students face many pressures these days, which can lead to anxiety and depression.  With pressure to excel in sports, achieve high scores on ACT exams and college exams, their expected involvement in the community, and their commitment to academics, sports, and the fine arts, students face a large amount of stress, overwhelm, anxiety to perform, and depression.  Students and are on the go from before sunrise to well into the night.  They often lack sleep and succumb to pressures of social media and internal and external expectations placed upon them.

Even with the best support groups, students face the possibility of overwhelming stress, anxiety and depression. These pressures present them with challenges that make being focused, engaged, and present in relationships, academics, work and sports.

Moms and Dads, this applies to you too

Do you want to move through life with greater clarity, simplicity and ease?

As parents, it is heart wrenching to watch our children struggle and to feel like we are at a loss for how to meaningfully help them.  In the midst of our daily responsibilities at work and home, commitments and time constraints, we feel helpless and overwhelmed ourselves.

I am committed to helping to improve your life by helping you manage your energy, teach you essential life skills to create balance and peace of mind, effectively manage stress, and be more focused, engaged, and present.  Through my program, I intend to lay the framework to set you up for long-term success in each area of your life, whether it be in sports, life, workplace, family relationships, friendships, and/or health and well-being. 

But more than that, I want you to feel empowered, confident, more light-hearted and joyful.

 Through my mindfulness and stress management program, you will

• Improve mental strength and agility
• Foster peace of mind and reduce overwhelm, anxiety, and depression
• Improve focus, concentration, learning, and present moment awareness
• Improve decision-making skills
• Develop self-awareness
• Minimize sports related injuries and facilitate a quicker return to sport post-injury
• Enhance sports performance
• Sleep better
• Move through life with greater ease
• Be happier and more fulfilled

Mindfulness in sports

• In sports performance, 90% is mental.  The rest is 10%.  Yet most athletic programs focus solely on physical training, completely ignoring the mental training aspect.
• Mental training and mindfulness in sports have proven to be effective in helping athletes get in the zone, prevent sports injuries, and facilitate healing of sport injuries so they can confidently return to sport.
• Professional sports teams like the Lakers, Bulls and Seahawks, are using mindfulness training and practices to help players get in the zone before they even take the field.  The Seahawk’s coach credits mindfulness and meditation training for their flawless performance in their most recent Super Bowl win.  These teams realize the importance of mental training and spend valuable time during practice sessions integrating this into their overall training.
• Physical training creates muscle memory in the body.  Mental training creates muscle memory in the brain.  It is impossible to adequately train athletes and students with a one time or weekend long mindfulness training program.  This practice takes time to learn and integrate, as well as much needed support to help students through common hurdles that come up. 
• Scientific studies show that a daily mindfulness practice actually changes the gray matter of the brain.  Just eight weeks of a daily practice shows increases in gray matter of the hippocampus, which is the area responsible for learning, focus, memory and concentration.  In addition to this, there is a decrease in the gray matter of the amygdala, which is the center of the brain responsible for the fight or flight reaction, fear and anxiety.  And finally, a daily mindfulness practice thickens the pre-frontal cortex, which supports compassion, empathy, personality development, complex planning and decision making.
• Teaching and practicing stress management techniques only during a crisis is like teaching people to swim when they are already drowning.  It is imperative for students and athletes to practice these techniques when they are not in stressful conditions.  My programs assign homework in the form of informal and formal mindfulness practices so these skills are readily accessible to the students and athletes when they need them.
• A mindful lifestyle takes time to develop.  I want students to find the practice accessible and do-able.  For these reasons, I start with basics and build on those.  I take a step-wised approach to teaching this valuable life-skill and I do so over the course of a reasonable time period so students and athletes have ample time to practice and integrate each technique before moving on to the next. 
• A mindfulness practice is best learned with a heavy experiential component.  My programs integrate an educational component with the experiential piece so students and athletes have adequate guidance and support as they fully learn and integrate this like skill into their daily lives.

My message to you

I live and breathe mindfulness, present-moment awareness and self-awareness.  As an energy coach, my expertise does not come from a weekend, month-long, or year-long training program, but rather, from a lifetime of formal and informal learning, practicing, applying, and fine tuning these timeless practices.  My heritage includes a strong foundation of mindful living.  I grew up with it in every cell of my being.

Placing all of my formal education, experience, and passion for the healing arts together, I have created unique and personalized programs that allow me to focus on healing from a whole body-centered approach. 

A large part of healing is centered on the mind-body connection, because what happens in the mind happens in the body.  I have found that when people choose to heal, choose to respond differently, choose a healthier mindset, and choose to commit to their cause or themselves, they heal quicker, and they have healthier relationships. They have greater senses of well-being, they have less anxiety and depression, and they are happier people.

On a personal note

From a personal standpoint, my life path has taken me through a debilitating and crippling side effect from a medication which landed me in a wheelchair in 2014. This adverse reaction impacted my joints, tendons, muscles, nervous system, cognitive ability, hearing and eye sight.  At one point, I could not add 1 + 1.

I healed myself over the course of a few years.  Over those few years, the importance of mindset training and mindfulness hit home.  I used it for pain management, dealing with anxiety, depression, and overwhelm, sleeping and visualizing healing. I also used these practices to navigate the emotional upset from subsequent unexpected setbacks I experienced. 

As someone who was an athlete, I could no longer do any of my sports or access other physical tools that helped me stay mentally and physically balanced.  As a single mom of four children, I was no longer able to meet the expectations I had of myself of being an active, involved independent mother. The depth and breadth of my knowledge, along with mindfulness training helped me navigate this in a way that I would not have been able to do without it.  

I am offering you a glimpse into part of my personal life because I want you to know that I get it.  I understand struggle, and I know how to use mindfulness and stress management techniques to manage energy and navigate through it.  I have lived it and I continue to live it. 

To help you achieve your goals, I will do everything in my power to help you learn and assimilate these timeless practices into your life. Click here to learn about what this program includes.

To get started and to see if this program is for you, click here to schedule your free 20 minute Get Acquainted Call.