When I was growing up, my dad would not let me play hockey for the entire summer. Yes, three full months.

Not partially. Not "you can do a little." A real break. The kind of break where the skates went into a closet and stayed there for weeks. The kind of break where I had to go figure out what to ...

If you are reading this, you followed me here from somewhere else. Maybe social media. Maybe a friend. Maybe a search bar.

However you found it, thank you for being here.

I want to use this first post to set a quiet tone for what the next couple of months will be, because the way you read me is go...

Two years ago, alongside an incredible team, I helped build a hockey camp for girls called EmpowerHer.

The story of why is not particularly dramatic. The short version is that I had spent enough time in the hockey world as a female player and then a female coach to notice what was missing in most o...

We went to Zion and Bryce Canyon as a family recently.

I am still trying to find the right words for what those few days did for me. I am going to try anyway.

There is something about standing under a canyon wall that puts everything in scale. The rock is older than every email you have ever sent....

I took my kids camping by myself for the first time recently. I am still feeling pretty proud of myself.

Here is what I want to say about that trip.

I am a goal setter by nature. I treat almost every meaningful thing in my life the same way: figure out what it requires, create a game plan, practic...

A few weeks ago I did something I had never done before.

I was selected as one of the authors for a local author festival, and I read an excerpt from The Empowered Athlete out loud in front of a room of people I had never met. It was the first time I had ever read from my own book in public.

My fa...

Telling an athlete to "just get tougher" is a little like telling a young child to relax.

The outcome makes sense. Of course we want kids to be able to calm down. Of course we want athletes to be resilient. Those are reasonable things to want.

But if no one has ever taught them how to get there, t...

There is a moment every athlete knows.

They make a mistake. They let their guy get away from them and they scored, their pass was intercepted, they hesitated and caused a turnover, the routine fell apart. The play they have run a thousand times falls apart in a moment that mattered. And before thei...

It's Mental Health Awareness Month, and the numbers around youth athletes should be a wake-up call for every parent, coach, and organization involved in youth sports.

Between the ages of 8 and 14, girls' confidence drops by 30%.

The average age for anxiety onset is 11 years old.

70% of youth athl...

It's the end of the season.

The games are done. The schedule cleared. And you're sitting with something you didn't quite anticipate: your athlete seems different.

Not tired-different. Not just ready-for-a-break different.

Something shifted this season. Their confidence, which used to feel relativ...

Every fall, I watch the same pattern unfold.

Athletes walk into tryouts, training camps, and the first weeks of a new season carrying something invisible. Not an injury. Not a skill gap. Something harder to name.

Nerves that feel bigger than their preparation. A mistake that loops in their head lo...

One of the most common things parents tell me during discovery calls is some version of this:

"I think my athlete could really benefit from this. But they don’t think they need it."

The parent sees the patterns clearly. The mood that rises and falls with every game. The frustration that lingers. T...