by Lisa Stephen | Jul 25, 2022
Supporting your college student’s mental health. It’s so challenging but so important. When thinking about sending our big kid(s) off to college, we often feel a mix of excitement and anxiety: excitement about the many opportunities that await them and...
by Lisa Stephen | Jul 6, 2022
Exercise is often defined as “bodily exertion for the sake of developing and maintaining physical fitness.” We all know we need to exercise. Some of us love to exercise, some of us hate it, and some of us are right in the middle. Me? As exercise is defined here, I...
by Lisa Stephen | Jul 1, 2022
This is an open letter to moms of college students. There are so many wonderful things about college life. Those things are not hard for moms to learn about. They are blatantly advertised and marketed. The behind-the-scenes of college life are most definitely not...
by Lisa Stephen | Jun 21, 2022
When I started to think about becoming a coach, I first asked myself, “Does coaching work?” I’d been a doctorate-level psychologist for many years—I was not about to engage with something that didn’t have any evidence to back it up. I’d heard stories of...
by Lisa Stephen | Jun 16, 2022
Remember the years before having children when we moms were fully formed humans? We had lives, interests, hobbies, and friendships. Then we became moms, and we were bombarded with messages telling us from that point on our identity needed to shift to being just that —...
by Lisa Stephen | Jun 4, 2022
What do I mean when I say that I use science to ignite change? I rely extensively on scientific evidence to inform my work with clients to help them reach their goals. One of the most straightforward examples of this is gratitude. There is decades of research...
