Raising A Dragon Slayer

Category: Mindset

  • Teenagers, Bullying and Mental Health

    This is a post I had never planned to write; I hadn’t even considered it previously. However, circumstances have prompted me to reconsider, so here we go. Teenage mental health and suicide are two things we don’t really like to talk about. However, we need to have these hard conversations with our kids. Kids need…

  • Anxiety in Teen Athletes

    It seems like the word anxiety has become a common part of everyday conversations. This physiological and psychological diagnosis can be found everywhere, and we attach it to just about everything. I feel like anxiety was very rarely mentioned when I was growing up, and I feel like people were a lot less stressed 20…

  • Discipline

    As I sat at the ice rink last night while the dude did a skating clinic, I found myself pondering the concept of discipline. You see, in order to be truly successful, you have to be successful in every aspect of your life- whatever success looks like to you. Success is going to look different…

  • 7 Qualities of a Dragon Slayer

    As I work on the book I’m writing, and the subsequent companion books that I envision will accompany it, I’ve had to dig really deep to define for myself what I think a Dragon Slayer is. I have to be able to define what a Dragon Slayer is to know whether or not I’m successful…

  • Creating Boundaries

    The book club I’m part of is reading “Worthy” by Jamie Kern Lima this month. Have you read it? There is so much goodness in this book, I wish I had read it years ago! As a recovering people pleaser, her talks about setting boundaries really resonated with me. I feel like we often set…