RiseUP Blog

This workshop demonstrated how journaling can be a beneficial tool in students’ daily lives to relieve stress, make themselves feel better, or even just keep track of their thoughts.

Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history, shares something in common with many of you. She and her siblings were in foster care until she was 5 years old.

If we keep ourselves in an enclosed environment, we will never know our true capabilities.

If your circumstances allow for calm reflection, be sure to use logic to balance out the instinct and make sound decisions. Instinct is meant to be a tool.

It was as if they realized that they were all connected, worked as a team, and found a sense of belonging. /*! elementor - v3.19.0 -...

When things go counter to what you want or expect, just inhale slowly and don’t take it to heart.

Resilience can be defined as the action and outcome of successfully dealing with and adapting to difficult life experiences.

Our oldest son thought that just because we had checks in the checkbook, we had money.

Humans are designed to want to fit in, to belong somewhere, and to have people care about them.

What is it about boundaries that often causes friction or discomfort in daily life?

When it came time to apply to colleges and take the ACT, I found myself battling anxiety as I began to prepare myself for the next chapter of my education.

Dangerous weather can appear suddenly, so you need to have a plan.

When children from hard places forget their “core memories,” they forget a bit of themselves.

It’s more important to be able to stand up for yourself and your time than to always bend to other people’s will.

It makes sense that most children in custody will be extremely nervous upon starting a new school year, particularly if they must change schools.

Self-forgiveness is an intrinsic part of self-healing.

I have found it much easier to work with someone who may not have advanced skills but who has a positive attitude than to work with a highly skilled person who has a poor attitude.

I believe that every person is like an instrument: our bodies are tuned to a frequency that we can hear only occasionally, and we need to follow it to discover what truly fits who we are.

When you are working with a group of people and have good ideas, know when to press forward to make sure you’re heard.

The first person I cut out of my life was very important to me, and I still think about them to this day. But no matter how I frame it, I know that cutting that person out of my life was the best thing I could have done for myself.