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Hi! I'm Chantal, a Registered Psychologist and teen life coach specializing in supporting elite teen girl athletes through injury recovery. Each week, I share practical psychology, inspiring stories, and evidence-informed tools to help teens, parents, coaches, and mentors build confident, resilient young women with strength that extends far beyond sport.
is a trap? We just completed week 5 of The Happiness Path group, which is totally one of my favourites. We dive into how to handle heavy and difficult emotions. Yesterday one MEGA insight that came through was: If the goal is just to be happy, you are sure to feel like a failure. For sure we all like to feel happy, calm, cool, and collected. But when it's the goal to always feel that way, any time we don't is going to feel like we've missed the mark somehow. When I stopped making happiness my...
& Popcorn Recovery. 🍿👻 HeLlO! My family was SO excited to visit a haunted house experience. Me? Not so much. My imagination goes into overdrive with these things, and nightmares tend to follow. But I’d made a deal with the fam, so off I went! I survived the first haunted house… only to exit and have a full-on panic attack. Gasping for air. Convinced I was going to die. Not exactly the fun family outing I’d envisioned! 😂 Eventually, calm found me again, and I made an executive decision to skip...
Midnight Tonight we do the draw Hey, amazing parents. If you could have a little more support with ONE thing about raising your teen girl, what would it be? We Want to Hear From You. Raising Resilient Teen Girls is here to offer the support, practical tools, fresh perspectives, and little “Ohhh, THAT makes sense!” moments that make this parenting journey feel a little less overwhelming and a lot less lonely. We're putting together new resources, conversations, workshops and exciting ideas for...