GIRL IN POWER

YOUR BRAIN

We build this power by first understanding how the brain works and how it’s designed to automatically write our lives, because it is hardwired for so many things:

TO SEEK PLEASURE - muffins or Netflix anyone?

TO AVOID PAIN - even if it’s just potential embarrassment or a negative comment from someone, or of course failure.

TO SAVE ENERGY - and just stay on the couch instead.

So in our program, we first learn to UNDERSTAND how our brain is programmed for survival - sometimes urging us to do things that we may not want to do (eat more, study less, watch more shows, go along with the group and say yes instead of no…)

And then we focus on learning the skills that actually TAKE CHARGE of this programming, instead of being controlled by it.

YOUR THOUGHTS

Confidence for girls peaks sometime before puberty, possibly as young as

9 years old…

And what actually ends up happening are…

CHANGES IN THE THOUGHTS THAT GIRLS ARE THINKING.

Your brain is programmed to pick up sentences from the world around you, from social media, your peers, teachers, coaches, books, parents…

And for many girls, these sentences can be endless reminders of society’s expectations of girls, especially during the tween/teen years…

Don’t make a mistake. Get good grades. Look a certain way.

Be nice. Follow rules. Achieve more. Be a good girl.

Don’t stand out from the crowd.

So as your brain starts the shift to puberty, every girl needs to learn how to navigate her world with continued power.

Because it is these thoughts that determine your body image, how confident you show up, and whether or not you will go after that epic dream of yours!

So if we want just as many girls to describe themselves the same as boys:

“I am confident, strong, adventurous and fearless…”

then you need to learn how to make sense of the evolving sentences in your brain that guide your every move in life.

YOUR FEELINGS

Without our feelings, human beings would have died out a long time ago…

Because it is our feelings that give MEANING to our lives.

Because at the end of every one of our goals is a feeling we want to feel - be it proud, happy, fulfilled, loved, accomplished, worthy, self-confident, satisfied.

Or escape a feeling we don’t want to feel - perhaps to feel less anxious, scared, overwhelmed, unworthy, or stressed.

Whatever it may be, our feelings are the most useful information we can have to guide our lives.

And we have a lot more power over them than we might realize…

Because we tend to grow up thinking that the world creates our feelings.

Someone tells us - “You can’t play with us!”

And then perhaps we feel sad…

But we actually don’t feel sad because we can’t play with our classmates.

Rather, we would only be feeling sad because of the THOUGHTS we might be thinking.

Perhaps - “I really wanted to play with them, I wish they would let me.”

So your power begins by first catching these sentences in your brain.

And realizing that no matter what,

YOU ARE THE CREATOR OF YOUR FEELINGS!

With your own THOUGHTS.

And you don’t have to be at the effect of them, if you don’t want to be.

Because how many of your thoughts might just be RECYCLED thoughts from your past? Thoughts that make you feel bad about yourself, such as:

I’m not good enough. I’m not worthy. I don’t know if I can.

What if I fail?!

So your emotional intelligence comes from learning how to discern the feelings that actually MATTER to you.

And in our program we take control by learning how to create emotions that give you power, and process big emotions in a way that help you move forward, instead of weighing you down.

YOUR ACTIONS

The world tends to tell us to focus on our actions:

EXERCISE MORE. STUDY HARDER. MAKE NEW FRIENDS. SAY NO!

LOVE YOUR BODY. SPEND LESS TIME ON YOUR PHONE.

EAT LESS. SHOW UP WITH MORE CONFIDENCE.

But rarely does the world teach us HOW to do these things.

So here we learn how to make a change that’s actually sustainable, instead of using up our limited amount of willpower.