Dear Body
Being human means constantly asking big questions such as Who am I? What do I care about? Am I enough? One of the places those questions land hardest is in the mirror.
Here's what we know from coaching hundreds of young people, and many older people too who have never built a healthy relationship with their bodies: your body image is not really about your body. It's about the stories running in your head, stories fed by social media, filtered images, perfectionism, and narrow cultural ideals that represent only a tiny sliver of humanity. In our coaching, we ask kids and adults alike to investigate those stories. To name the beliefs that hold them back. And then to flip them.
In our life coaching work with middle schoolers, we even dedicate an entire chapter of our curriculum to body image. Not because we want kids to love every inch of themselves in some forced, Instagram-worthy way. But because we've seen what happens when they don't — when the negative stories they carry about their bodies quietly chip away at their confidence, their friendships, and their sense of worth. We know the earlier a child intentionally builds a positive relationship with her or his body, the stronger that relationship will remain through adulthood.
We ask our clients and students: What does your body actually do for you every single day? When they slow down long enough to answer that question honestly, the relationship shifts.
I explored that same question, reframed as a letter to my children, in a piece I wrote for The Washington Post a few years back. It's about gratitude. About listening. About choosing to love something that has never stopped loving you back.
Please take a read below.
Do you want to work on your own body image with one of our expert coaches? Or explore body image, self-worth, and more with your teenager in a supportive coaching environment? Book a free consultation or learn how our Take Charge of Your Life program can help make this their best year yet.
Link to original Washington Post piece
Young Adult Coaching
The world tells us young adulthood is full of opportunity. What it doesn't mention is the pressure, the paralysis, and the persistent sense that everyone else has figured it out except you.
They haven't. And you don't have to figure it out alone. We help 20-somethings move from overwhelm to ownership, from comparison to clarity, and from drifting to designing.
What Participants Report
Greater clarity in career and direction
Stronger self-trust and self-worth
Healthier dating and relationship patterns
Improved time and energy management
A renewed sense of excitement about their future
Group Coaching
We meet young adults exactly where they are: navigating early career uncertainty, money stress, relationship dynamics, or the quiet anxiety of not knowing what comes next. We teach them how to build lives they feel proud of.
We run small-group coaching programs on Zoom. Groups of friends can also create their own cohort. The host gets a complimentary seat for a full small-group.
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Young adults who want more personalized attention than our small groups offer, can work with one of our expert coaches to dig deeper into their career aspirations, time management, self-care, relationships, money management, friendships, resilience and self-worth. We have coaches who are experts in this age group including all the challenges and opportunities that come with the particular time of life.
Casey Seidenberg
is a Human Better EDU Program Leader and Executive Life Coach. She leads our popular Take Charge of Your Life course for Middle Schoolers and High Schoolers. She also works with graduate-level educators to Kindergarten teachers and everything in between. Email Casey at casey@humanbetteredu.org.
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