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UNPOPULAR PARENT COACH OPINION! 🤫

UNPOPULAR PARENT COACH OPINION! 🤫

Or maybe very popular, who knows?

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Mar 15, 2025
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TLDR:

  • I have three spots open for my group coaching class,"Messy Middle" course. It is a course for caregivers of tweens and young teens, and will begin March 17th.

  • 60 Minute Zoom Discovery Call, use the special code at the bottom to save some moola. This is a deal only for my PAID subscribers folks. This is one coaching call, we get to know each other, you get coached, we figure out if we want to work together (or not). This is a no-pressure situation.

  • I have two one-on-one coaching spots available in March. Click here to get started.


UNPOPULAR OPINION ACCOUNCEMENT!

You don't have to be "healed" to be change your parenting skills.

You don't have to face all of your shit, get it lined up and fix it, like shooting down cans balancing on a fence with a BB gun. Ping, ping, ping! No.

Even the idea that there is a finish line is a logical and emotional fallacy. Like being a human has some kind of finish line. I practice Zen Buddhism and, technically-speaking, I am just over here, burning through some old karma from my past lives and trying to make my next life a little better. It just keeps going. Even if I look at it through the lens of my old Catholic life, Jesus wanted me know that I was always God's chosen...no winning or losing.

But our culture doesn't like this type of thinking. We are time-obsessed and we are always running out of it.

We are boot-strapping and obsessed with improvement, constantly moving the line just out of our reach. Who owns the line? WE DO. Who is moving the line? WE ARE.

I mean, it's fucked up.

And here I am, selling a class to parents of tweens and young teens. Ooof, am I part of the problem?

Maybe.

But I will promise you this: I promise you nothing.

You will not be a different person. Your childhood will still be fucked up, your child will still be difficult, your partner will remain the same, and you will still have your neurosese (hello darkness, my old friend).

Why would I promise you this? BECAUSE IT TRUE.

And it is OKAY. It's more than okay, it's a relief.

The purpose of my group coaching class is bring some light to the dark. To offer you a hand on the path. To be with you. To give you some knowledge you didn't have. To say, "Yeah, that's normal." To nod and smile and say, "Let's try again." To show a path of filled with courage, and that courage is YOURS.

If you WAIT to be better before you pursue support, YOU WILL NEVER TAKE WHAT IS BEING OFFERED TO YOU.

I am just a person, on the parenting path with you, offering you a light and a hand and a good honeycrisp apple.


We start on Monday the 17th.

XOXO,

Meghan


Join the Group Coaching Class.

Not to be perfect or regimented; think mindful, responsive, and aware, instead.

Wondering about the vibe? Here is a link to a teaser module where I talk about the problem of independence.

If you have a friend who is also parenting a tween, bring them! You can discuss the material together!

☀️ I have been using this Sunscreen a ton, because it feels like sun is all of a sudden OUT and this is EASY.

💅🏻I have been using Dazzle Dry to try to save money and time on my nails, and it LASTS FOREVER.

🌿I have POUNDS of this pasta in my house at all time. My favorite pesto is from Costco! I add chicken breast and cherry tomatoes and lots of warm. At any given time, I have about six teens in my house and they gobble it up.

Don’t forget to use the code for a savings, it is:

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