by Lisa Stephen | Aug 17, 2022
Motherhood is hard, but motherhood during a pandemic must be at least 1000x harder! On a good day, moms are already overwhelmed with 754 things to do, 421 places to be, and about a million things to think about. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, a lot of...
by Lisa Stephen | Aug 9, 2022
Women are constantly taught to be small. I used to (and still do!) tell my two daughters over and over again to “take up your space.” I wanted them to learn to combat the gendered messaging they would inevitably receive telling them to shrink themselves. For women who...
by Lisa Stephen | Jul 20, 2022
Helping moms of gifted kids is one of my areas of speciality. I’m passionate about this topic because in addition to working with moms of gifted kids, I went through it myself (twice), and there were days I felt I was failing no matter what I did. Being a mom is...
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 —...
