Teenagers
“You’re not alone. You’re not broken. You are enough.
If you’re a teenager and this is you, you don’t always have to feel this way.
I felt like I needed someone like me when I was stuck, especially as a teenager. That’s why I became a coach.
Pretty simple really”.
Teenager – Is this you?
Are you picking up behaviour points at school? Are you often late or behind with your homework constantly?
Do your emotions seem so big and like they control you?
End up in confrontations because you get angry quickly?
Often resulting in you being labelled as disrespectful or someone with anger issues.
Do you doom scroll and lose hours of your life and sometimes forget to even eat or go to the bathroom until the last minute?
Feel like you avoid social situations and worry that you don’t fit in or know how to behave?
Can’t sit still and feel compelled to move or fidget?
Do you feel like the adults in your life don’t quite get you?
Act without thinking and wonder why?
Overwhelmed with the pressure of school life, feel like everyone else seems to understand and can focus?
Have you ever been told that you have so much potential and are capable of so much more?
If only you’d apply yourself and take things seriously.
Lose or forget important stuff all of the time?
Do you feel the pressure of making huge life decisions right now?
College, Apprenticeship, University? It’s coming closer and you just want time to stand still?
Make friends easily but struggle to maintain friendships and replay moments in your head and worry you’ve messed up somehow?
Do you listen to a song on repeat for weeks on end then suddenly can’t listen to it again?
Do you often get accused of not listening?
Was primary school easier and so different to secondary where everything feels so serious?
Are you struggling to find any motivation to study and do your homework? Even if you do, you quickly become distracted and lose track of time?
How many PS / Xbox controllers or phones have you broken in a rage?
Find it difficult to be awake at school but can’t get to sleep at night with a busy brain?
Do you feel like you fit in with your friends and can be completely yourself around them and relax? Or do you worry that you have upset people often?
Feel that no matter how hard you try you are somehow falling behind?
How many did you nod along with?
Every question above is based on actual conversations I have had with teenagers I have supported. Most of them are exactly how I have felt at different stages in my life too.
I can still remember the confusion and if I can support any young person who is feeling the same way as I did then I am doing what really matters to me.