Passion Power

The adolescent stage is between 13-19 years of age. They are filled with untapped potential, but the teenage years are often not seen as positive. It’s the stage of life where we are fraught with insecurity and self-doubt. The stage where we make mountains out of molehills. We sit around feeling isolated, lonely, and believing we are the only ones. The brain is still developing and there is a lot of life lessons learned during this period of life and it doesn’t always go smoothly. It can be explosive and full of drama. Author Cassandra Clare writes, “All my life I've felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged. Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants.” I don’t know anyone that wishes to go back to that time in their life again, yet it’s a time of great discovery about ourselves and world around us. There has been so much emphasis on redefin...

You call it gallivanting, we call it fun. You call it mischief, We call, just hanging out with our friends. You call it disrespect, We call sticking up our ourselves; sorry we don’t have it perfect yet. What you call sense of entitlement, We call providing. Is there a misunderstanding? What you call caring, we call control. What you call advice, we call self-righteous. What you call rebellion, we call anger. What you call rage, we call suffering. What you call curfew and boundaries, we call conditional love. “I’ll only love you if you act a certain way.” What you call drama, we call wanting to be deeply seen. Dear Parents: Do I have to be wrong in order for you to be right? If lessons and mistakes make me stronger, let me make them. I give you permission to let go. I need emotional risk and uncertainty, to help me find my own courage; to feel my own joy. Do you feel yours, or are you too entrenched in raising me that you forgot about your own life. We see things d...