The Most Important Takeaway From Strengths Based Parenting

If there was one thing you could take away from the Strengths Based Parenting philosophy it would be this. Doing your best and being at your best is not the same. This is not word play either. Doing your best and being at your best are similar for sure. However, what makes them different is […]

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Positivity is a Talent That Doesn’t Come Naturally to Everyone

A couple days ago I wrote an article explaining why positivity is not the opposite of negativity. This sparked more debate than I expected among a few of my friends and colleagues. The basis for my premise in this article was a concept called neutral thinking. I first discovered this concept studying Russell Wilson’s mental […]

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Talking With Teens About Their Strengths Improves Relationship Quality

Today I came across some new research that reinforces my strong advocacy for strengths based coaching. Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham “compared how often parents and teens discussed strengths and weaknesses alongside how well the two communicate, how much the teen discloses to the parent, and how close the parent and teen […]

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