My guest today is Nataly Kogan, and she’s here to talk about simple practices that can help us move from struggling to thriving.   

Nataly starts off today sharing her amazing story as a child immigrant and refugee and how that led her to the work she does today. Nataly and I discuss how we can juggle motivating our teens to be achievers without pushing themselves to burnout. We talk about Nataly’s “Awesome Human Journal,” her TEDx Talk, and how our inner-critics help, or don’t help, our parenting. Nataly shares her wisdom about self-talk, why we are so much kinder when we speak to others, and how self-compassion makes us better parents. Finally, I ask Nataly to introduce her five emotional fitness skills: acceptance, gratitude, self-care, intentional kindness & compassion, and finding the “bigger why.”

Takeaways from the show

• How do we teach teens to be achievers without pushing themselves to burnout? 
• Nataly’s “Awesome Human Journal” 
• Quieting your self-criticism 
• “Self-talk is not free” 
• Self-compassion improves your ability to show-up at your best 
• Making the decision to shift from struggling to thriving 
• We are not here to suffer
• “Treating yourself like a friend” 
• Emotional fitness skills 
• “Earning” or “deserving” self-care & how much time self-care takes

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