Youth Coaching Expert Insights
Stay informed, inspired, and engaged in mentoring and coaching tweens, teens, and young adults with the Youth Coaching Institute blog. Here you’ll discover expert strategies, research, and tools to empower your practice or organization and foster growth and resilience in adolescents.
Unlocking Your Health Holistically with Lifestyle Medicine?
This article introduces you to the basics of lifestyle medicine. You will learn about the origins of lifestyle medicine, the 6 pillars of the specialty, and how they impact your energy and capacity to thrive. What is Lifestyle Medicine? Wellness is a growing priority for people in the United States. This shift towards health is evidenced by the boom in tech, apps, and conversations around improving lifestyle habits, including nutrition,
Moving Out 101 – Navigating the Transition to Independent Living (Tips Inside)
Introduction: Moving out is one of the quintessential markers of the transition to adulthood. The teen or young adult has reached a phase in their life where living at home is no longer sustainable. Whether it’s moving out for college, or for your first big job, or living in a new state, independent living is a launchpad into the “real world”. This transition can be difficult for kids and caring
Habits: What They Are, and How to Form (or Change) Them
Introduction: Every single person has habits that they’ve created, consciously or unconsciously. Those habits can be healthy and productive, like going to the gym in the morning, or setting the dishwasher at night. They can also be destructive to our health and wellbeing. This article breaks down the science behind habits; it provides tips on how to form ones that improve your life, and change the ones that don’t. What
Regulating Emotions 101: Why It’s Important and How to Do It
Introduction: Learning to identify and regulate emotions effectively is a hallmark of self-management. This article explains what emotions are, why emotional regulation is important, and shares effective strategies you can try to process and control your emotional responses. Emotions 101: Emotions are reactions that humans subjectively experience in response to stimuli like an event or situation. Emotions result from a combination of factors: cognitive appraisal (interpreting the stimulus), physical arousal
Three Concepts That Will Help You Manage Your Thoughts (Self-Coaching Prompts Included)
Introduction: As humans, we often feel as though we are at the mercy of our thoughts and emotions – and that there is no way to intervene and change course when needed. But that isn’t true. Learning to regulate your thoughts is a skill that can grow with intentional practice. This article will walk you through three key concepts needed to manage your thoughts effectively and provide self-coaching guidance on
Life Coaching Has a Representation Issue – Here’s How You Can Make a Difference
Introduction: As coaching becomes an increasingly mainstream and impactful service worldwide, it is critical to evaluate the level of diversity and cultural competence within the profession. Coaching clients come from all walks of life, and it is pivotal that every coach has the capacity, empathy, and training to appropriately respond to their client’s experience and needs. Underrepresentation in the coaching profession: The coaching profession has a representation issue. In 2022,