by Jenn | Feb 23, 2018 | Art Heals, Current Affairs, Effective Parenting, Kids
I am known for the empowering art-based programs I run for girls and women, but I have had boys’ programs on the brain a LOT lately. Ever since I started the Self Esteem Through Art program, I have been trying to gather enough boys to host regular boys’...
by Jenn | Feb 22, 2018 | Current Affairs, Dear Daughters, Effective Parenting, Kids, the power of words
Dear Daughters, I would love to write to you about how the world has lost its damn mind, or my thoughts on guns in schools, or how our current president is a glorified toddler, but I simply don’t have it in me right now. I am still collecting my thoughts after...
by Jenn | Jul 24, 2017 | Coaching, Current Affairs, Effective Parenting, Entrepreneurial, Kids, Life, Love, self esteem through art, the power of words
I’ve never told you this before… The Self Esteem Through Art program started way before it formally “started”—a couple of decades before, actually. I brought a lot of old shit into my marriage—old ways of thinking, learned ways of moving...
by Jenn | Nov 11, 2016 | Current Affairs, Effective Parenting, Life, the power of words
Dear Daughters, You saw me cry the morning after the presidential election, and since I don’t often cry in front of you, I am sure that left you feeling at least a bit confused and helpless. While you were in school that day, I pulled myself together and worked to...
by Jenn | Jun 13, 2016 | Coaching, Current Affairs, Effective Parenting, Kids, Life, Love, self esteem through art, the power of words
When I was a little girl (little enough that I have no personal recollection of this story), I apparently stole a Weeble from a local store. I don’t know what was going through my head at that time. I don’t know if I asked for it and, after hearing...
by Jenn | Jan 3, 2016 | Coaching, Current Affairs, Effective Parenting, Goal Setting, Life, Love, the power of words, word of the year
There are few growth processes I enjoy as much as I enjoy picking out a word for the year. This was a tradition I started in 2008 and every year I go a little deeper and think a bit broader. Resolutions come and go (and most go unfulfilled)—these words become part of...
