Find your voice

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*For all these reasons, intuitive writing can have therapeutic benefits in transforming low self-esteem, anxiety, self-doubt, self-silencing, shame, situational depression, negative body-image, creative paralysis, low energy, and/or feelings of hopelessness.

Every week for the past eleven years, I have had the great honor and happiness of writing with teenage girls,* listening to their stories, supporting their voices and affirming their wisdom. That is how I know that teenage girls are the most intuitive, insightful, creative, courageous, and emotionally intelligent people on earth. My job is just to make sure that each girls knows how uniquely valuable and powerful she is.

*Every use of the word girl or young women is meant to include gender-expansive youth including trans girls, non-binary youth, gender non-conforming youth.

Unfortunately, every girl I've ever met has struggled with a difficult period of lost confidence, starting in middle school. Because of my own struggles with self-confidence, first as a teen and then a young women, I know how painful it is, and also what it takes to heal and recover your voice. In fact, I believe that this is what I was born for, to be an empowerment coach for young women, mirroring back their unique brilliance so they can discover their strengths and reclaim their magic—as the authors, leaders, and creators of their own lives. As e.e. cummings once wrote,“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch."

As I often tell my teens, I am not here to teach them or tell them what to do. I believe we are all the experts of our own heart and that my job is just to support each girl in re-connecting to what she already knows—her own intuitive wisdom—and then to help her build the resilience to stay connected, to develop the inner-authority and self-trust she'll need to grow and thrive. Most importantly, I aim to make writing fun and cathartic, so teens want to keep writing for the rest of their lives.

To talk in more depth about your daughter's unique interests and needs and how I can best support her, contact me here.

"You have done SO much for my daughter’s confidence and self discovery through your appreciation of her writing and encouraging her to speak from her true self and her true voice. Thank you for providing her and all your young writers a safe place to be their real self without judgment!”

— Parent, Lamorinda, CA