TESTIMONIALS
The teen and tween years are tough for EVERY person, no matter your upbringing, background, or circumstances. Our goal is to teach young people how to develop the personal tools and resources to cope with many situations. Teens report more self-confidence and happiness after our classes and events.
CHECK OUT WHAT TEENS SAY ABOUT EMPOWERTEEN!
TEENS:
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There isn't a single thing at all I would change about this program. I feel like I've been helped by the posture tools and get rid or my negative talk.
15 years old
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The sharing was my favorite, also the help with self talk, communication and skin care
16 years old
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This was very helpful and applicable for everyday life. I want to do more nature walks, meditation, and yoga. I’m ready to use what I learned about posture and positive self-talk. Overall, I loved this program. Thank you Dr. Paula!”
-16 years old
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I liked the activities that got us moving and the communication tools.
I know I want to be more assertive, now that I know how to.
Everything was so good. I learned the importance of kindness, a positive attitude, and to love myself as I am.
Yoga. I needed yoga. I’d never done yoga. I love yoga.
The dancing was my favorite part!
I loved everything, everything, everything! I’d like to keep doing yoga.
I have way more self-confidence now!
It helped me a lot with my anger management issues and understanding how to handle a conflict. I feel calmer.
The relationship goals personally helped me. Thank you so much!
Oh my gosh! Dr. Paula and her crew taught us sooooo many ways to grow our self-confidence! I have noticed so many ways the retreats have changed my life already, and it is truly empowering.
Everything was very helpful, especially the skin care and relationship advice.
I felt it helped me develop as a person. Really liked the high power poses!
I really liked learning ways to feel more confident and positive self-talk. More dancing, please!
Everything was so positive, I loved it! I now understand that letting go of toxic people and positively moving on with life will help me move forward.
This was very helpful and applicable for everyday life. I want to do more nature walks, meditation, and yoga. I’m ready to use what I learned about posture and positive self-talk. Overall, I loved this program. Thank you Dr. Paula!”
I will definitely be back next year for more!
This program teaches important life skills. I benefitted most from the positive self talk and about not using labels.
I liked sharing, the positive self-talk, communication, and skin care.
I liked learning about how power poses actually help boost your level of confidence, and the dancing activities we did.
It gave me different views on life.
I like being outside a lot. I learned how to have a positive life, be assertive, and think about what I’m putting into my body.
I liked that it was helpful and relevant. The tools I’ll use are posture and confidence.
I will definitely use the assertive talking techniques.
It was VERY interesting! I liked all of the techniques I learned.
I learned how to overcome labels and how to live with kindness, good communication, posture and confidence.
My advice to everyone is to join this program!
I just want Dr. Paula to keep up the fun, exciting, and happy personality she has.
I’ve been more relaxed with the tools I’ve learned. My favorite was the yoga and dancing and nature walks and skin care.
“It has helped me a lot with my anxiety.”
I want to share everything I learned! I want to share Dr. Paula, she’s amazing. Her program is soo helpful in so many ways. I feel honored to be taught by her. I learned so much!
Skin care! Awesome!
I learned to be more confident on what I want to accomplish. The last day’s activity was my favorite!
My favorite parts were the group share discussions. I’m coming back for more of that!
The meditations helped me calm down my anger.
I will remember this! I want to remember everything I learned here!
This really teaches you valuable lessons and gives you tools for life.
I liked that we were taught to love ourselves. I learned how to have more power within myself.
I enjoyed everything, but mostly the confidence part and labels thing.
I found it useful for a lot of things and will remember the communication skills most. Loved the excitement and positivity.
I’ve always had trouble with friendships in the past. I never knew how to see when a friend was toxic before it was too late. This camp really helped me find the red flags in a friendship and since then, I have saved myself from many other toxic friendships. The skincare stuff we did was also a life saver, and my acne is so much better now. So is my self confidence!!
I loved everything. Dr. Paula is amazing! This has helped me so much, and also, Dr. Paula is amazing! 🙂
The dancing made me so happy! I want more dancing!
I feel like I know how to take care of myself better now.
The ‘labels’ lesson really spoke to me, and I loved how self-love oriented the program was!
I liked the self-talk strategies, they were very useful.
I loved this program!
It teaches you valuable lessons and gives you tools for life.
The whole thing was very uplifting.
I’ll use the ‘cross-crawl’ technique for sure…that is awesome!
It was relatable and taught really well. My take-away was the positive self-talk.
It was so helpful and useful. I really liked the skin care day.
I feel happier about myself.
It helped me a lot with my stress.
I had a lot of fun and will be back next year!
I loved the yoga and meditation the most.
It was fun and I liked the positive self-talk. I want to do more dancing!
I learned how to be successful and confident.
You learn things that can be used throughout your life, not just one time.
I liked the parts about managing burnout and stress management. Also all the relationship discussions.
I can’t believe how helpful this was. I really liked the yoga and want to do more of it!
I liked everything about this, and really the self-confidence and self talk!
There isn’t a single thing at all I would change about this program. I feel like I’ve been helped by the posture tools and get rid of my negative talk.
It taught me to be myself and how to deal with unwanted situations.
Every single part of this experience was the biggest blessing to happen in my life. I learned about relationships, how to love myself, skincare, yoga, meditate, etc. I felt in tune with myself and my depression slowly faded away.
It was helpful and I liked the MELT, skin products, and relationship stuff.
I thought it was very useful for now and the future. I want more yoga, meditation, and nature walks.
I found this so helpful, especially the part about letting go.
