If we keep praising girls for being endlessly adaptable, they’ll keep twisting themselves to fit environments that should have changed long ago. What if, instead of applauding them for coping, we listened when coping wasn’t enough?
Continue readingRest Without Permission
When did rest become something we have to earn?
Rest without permission, as a rebellion against the culture that told you not to. Rest as nourishment. Rest as a gift to you – and through you, a gift to your daughter.
The Myth of the ‘Nice Girl’
Girls are being taught to be nice instead of being taught to be true. And it is costing them their confidence, their boundaries, and their sense of self.
Continue readingThe Confidence Con: Why We’re Failing Preteen Girls
We tell girls to believe in themselves, but then we raise them in a world that’s constantly grading, rating, ranking and scrolling them.
The truth is, confidence doesn’t grow in a culture that punishes authenticity.



