Living Joyful Courage

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The Positive Discipline for Teens 6 week class:
Building the foundation

All members—new and returning—are invited to join our 6-week foundational parenting class. This isn’t just another lecture series you check off your list. It’s the intentional grounding we all need before diving into the real work of the year ahead.

Why start here?

Because knowing what to do and actually doing it when your teen slams a door in your face are two completely different things.

This class establishes our shared language, our core principles, and the foundational understanding of adolescent development, nervous system regulation, and relationship-based parenting that everything else builds upon. Whether this is your first time through or you’re revisiting these concepts, starting the year together ensures we’re all on the same page—and that matters deeply for the community experience and coaching calls throughout the year.

For new members, this is where you’ll discover the “why” behind the tools and strategies—understanding teen brain development, recognizing your own triggers, and learning how influence actually supports when control stops working.

For returning members, this is your opportunity to go deeper. You’ll notice what you missed the first time, recognize how far you’ve come, and reinforce the concepts right when you need them most—at the start of a new year with new challenges.

And here’s what makes this truly transformational:

The class isn’t the end—it’s the launching pad. Once you have the foundation, you’ll spend the entire year integrating these principles into your real life through ongoing coaching calls, monthly content, and daily community support. This is where intellectual understanding becomes embodied practice. Where you learn to catch yourself before you react. Where you practice the skills until they become your new default.

Integration takes time, repetition, and support. The 6-week class gives you the framework. The Living Joyful Courage community gives you the year-long container to actually live it.

The 6 week class will run on Wednesdays, beginning January 21st, 5-6:30pm PST.

Monthly Group Calls:
Where Learning Becomes Living

Twice a month, we gather as a community for calls designed to transform how you show up with your teen—and with yourself.

First Wednesday of the Month | 5-6:30pm PST | Workshop Call

These workshop-style sessions dive deep into the content that matters most to you. Topics are generated by the group—what you’re struggling with, what you’re curious about, what’s showing up in your families right now. We explore personal growth work, nervous system regulation, and Positive Discipline skills that build your capacity to stay grounded when things get intense.

This is where we expand on the foundation from our 6-week class, taking those core concepts and weaving them into the specific challenges of your real life.

Third Wednesday of the Month | 5-6:30pm PST | Group Coaching Call

This is where integration happens in real time. Members bring their current challenges—the conversation that went sideways, the boundary that’s being tested, the situation they don’t know how to handle—and receive direct coaching they can implement immediately.

Here’s what makes group coaching so powerful: You’re not just getting support for your own situation. You’re learning from every family’s story. You’re seeing how the same principle applies across completely different circumstances. You’re witnessing other parents navigate their fears and find their way forward, which gives you permission and courage to do the same.

This is community learning at its best.

When one parent gets coached on setting a boundary around screen time, you’re learning how to set boundaries around curfew. When someone works through their fear of their teen’s anxiety, you’re examining your own relationship with your teen’s struggles. Every call deepens your understanding and strengthens your ability to integrate these tools into your daily life.

These calls are rich with connection, learning, and growth. This is where we get real about what we’re going through. Where we practice the vulnerability that we ask of our teens. Where we support each other in feeling seen, heard, and less alone in the hardest moments of parenting.

You’ll walk away with practical strategies for fostering healthy communication, setting boundaries that stick, and navigating conflict with more confidence and less reactivity—not someday, but right now, this week, in your home.

Quarterly 1:1 Coaching:
Your Personal Integration Sessions

Four times a year, you get 30 minutes of dedicated one-on-one time with me—just you, your specific family dynamics, and the focused support you need to become the parent you want to be.

This is where the work gets personal.

In our group calls, you’re learning principles and witnessing transformation. In our 1:1 sessions, we’re applying everything directly to your teen, your triggers, your family’s unique patterns and challenges.

Maybe you need help identifying why a particular behavior from your teen sends you into a tailspin. Maybe you’re working on a specific boundary that keeps crumbling under pressure. Maybe you’re navigating a complex situation—a mental health crisis, a custody challenge, a relationship rupture—that needs individualized attention and strategy.

These quarterly check-ins become your integration milestones.

We assess where you’ve grown, identify what’s still tripping you up, and create a clear path forward for the next three months. You get personalized feedback on your specific parenting challenges, tailored strategies that fit your family’s reality, and the focused support that helps you bridge the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it when it matters most.

This is the coaching that meets you exactly where you are—not where you think you should be, but where you actually are—and helps you take the next right step toward showing up as the regulated, connected, intentional parent your teen needs.

LJC Members ALSO get access to a 12 month coaching package at 50% off the typical rate for coaching.

For a more intense coaching experience, members get a 25% discount on coaching packages. Up to $525 in savings!  Learn more about private coaching here.

Office Hours:
Your Lifeline When You Need It Most

Twice a month, I’m holding space for you to drop in via Zoom—no appointment needed, no formal agenda required. Just show up with whatever is happening right now in your family.

Because parenting doesn’t wait for your next scheduled coaching call.

The hard conversations, the surprising behaviors, the moments when you’re second-guessing everything you just said—they happen throughout the week, and you may need insight now, not two weeks from now.

Quick questions stealing your peace. Sticky situations needing a fresh perspective. Moments when you want reassurance you’re on the right track.

You don’t need to prepare. You don’t need to have it all figured out. Just show up, share what’s happening, and get the real-time support that helps you move forward with confidence.

Second and Fourth Wednesday | 12-1pm PST.

Soul Care Thursdays:
Tending to the Human Behind the Parent

Most weeks, we gather for an hour that has nothing to do with parenting strategies—and everything to do with remembering who you are beyond being someone’s parent.

This is your time to exhale.

We meditate together. We journal. We share what’s actually alive in our lives right now—the grief, the joy, the transitions, the questions that keep us awake at 3am. The messy, beautiful reality of being a human in midlife navigating not just teenagers, but our own evolving identities, relationships, bodies, and dreams.

Because here’s the truth: You can’t pour from an empty cup, and you can’t guide your teen through their transformation if you’re neglecting your own.

Soul Care Thursdays honor ALL of who you are—the parent, yes, but also the person processing aging parents, career shifts, friendship changes, and the profound question of who you’re becoming as your kids prepare to leave. This is the space where we tend to our own hearts with the same care and attention we give our children.

This is community at its most intimate and essential.

We witness each other. We hold space for whatever is present. We practice the kind of self-compassion and presence that we want to model for our teens—not as a concept to teach them, but as a lived experience they can feel in us.

You deserve this time. Your soul needs this tending. And your family benefits when you show up as a whole, nourished human—not just a depleted parent running on fumes.

Most Thursdays | 9-10am PST

The Forum:
Your 24/7 Community Space

Parenting doesn’t pause between calls, and neither does your community. Our online forum is where the real, everyday work of integration happens—where you can reach out at 11pm when your teen just dropped a bomb, or share a breakthrough moment while it’s still fresh.

This is your always-on support system.

Post your question when you’re stuck. Share your win when you need someone to celebrate with you. Vent when you need to be heard without judgment. Read others’ stories and realize you’re not the only one whose teen refused to get out of bed for school today, or whose boundary just got tested in a spectacular way.

The magic of this space is in the collective wisdom.

Someone else has been where you are. Someone else gets the specific flavor of your struggle. And when you share your own experience, you become that lifeline for another parent who desperately needs to know they’re not alone or losing their mind.

Members exchange practical advice, offer perspective when emotions are running high, and remind each other of what we know when we’re too triggered to remember. You can also connect one-on-one through private messaging, building deeper friendships with parents who truly understand your journey.

This is where community becomes connection—not just during scheduled calls, but in the daily, unglamorous, beautiful work of showing up for each other and ourselves.

Resource Bank:
Your Ever-Growing Library of Wisdom

As an LJC community member, you gain immediate access to our complete collection of past Joyful Courage Summits—multi-day events featuring in-depth expert conversations on adolescent brain development, mental health, substance use, college transitions, and the neuroscience behind effective parenting. These summits alone represent hundreds of dollars in value and hours of transformative content that isn’t available anywhere else.

But that’s just the beginning.

Every workshop call, every group coaching session, every themed training we create gets recorded and added to your resource library. This collection grows richer and more valuable with each month you’re a member, building an ever-expanding bank of content that’s specifically shaped by the real needs and questions of parents like you.

Here’s why having access to all of this matters:

You can’t always attend live—and that’s okay. Your teen has a crisis during the call you were excited about. You’re in a different time zone. Work runs late. Life happens. The resource bank means nothing is ever lost to you.

You can return to content exactly when you need it. That workshop on setting boundaries around social media you watched in February? It lands completely differently in September when your teen is asking for TikTok. That coaching call where someone navigated their teen’s depression? You didn’t need it then, but six months later when your own teen is struggling, that replay becomes a lifeline.

You’ll hear things you missed the first time. As you grow and integrate these tools, you’ll return to earlier content and discover layers you weren’t ready to hear before. A single workshop can serve you three different times in three different ways as your understanding deepens and your family’s needs evolve.

This is support that compounds over time. Your membership doesn’t just give you access to this month’s content—it gives you access to years of collective wisdom, expert guidance, and real-life integration that you can draw on exactly when your family needs it most.

Member Perks:
Because You’re Part of the Inner Circle

Your membership doesn’t just give you access to our core programming—it makes you part of our inner circle, which comes with meaningful benefits.

Me, on energetic speed dial. This is perhaps the most understated yet powerful benefit of membership: you have me in your corner, consistently and intimately. Through our weekly touchpoints, monthly calls, quarterly 1:1s, and daily forum presence, we’re in close relationship throughout the year.

You’re not reaching out to a distant expert when crisis hits—you’re connecting with someone who knows your family, your patterns, your growth edge, and your wins. There’s a unique comfort and confidence that comes from having a coach who’s tracking your journey, who recognizes your voice in the forum, who remembers what you’re working on. That closeness matters when you need support, guidance, or just someone who believes in you when you’re doubting yourself.

25% off all Joyful Courage offerings, including additional one-on-one coaching sessions beyond your quarterly calls, in-person retreats (like our annual gathering at Asilomar), specialized workshops, and any new programs we launch throughout the year.

First access to everything. Before we open registration to the public, you get early bird access to new events, limited-spot offerings, and retreat registrations. You’re always first to know and first in line.

These aren’t just discounts—they’re an investment in your ongoing growth. As you deepen your practice throughout the year, you may want more personalized support, an immersive retreat experience, or specialized training. Your membership ensures you can access these opportunities at a price that honors your commitment to this community.