Coaching practices for Daring Greatly for My Teenager

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  • There’s a thing I want to say or ask for, but I can’t make myself do it without knowing how they’ll take it first
  • I have to tell someone something hard about their work and I’m dreading it, because every time I do it lands like an attack and they go defensive
  • There’s a conversation I know I need to have
  • I keep telling myself I’ll finally feel okay about myself once I hit the next thing
  • Every conversation with my kid about their behavior turns into me laying down the law and them digging in, and I want a way to actually talk it through together

Practices that may help

  1. Daring Greatly, Made Practical
    Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly argues that vulnerability — showing up without guarantees — is the birthplace of courage, connection, and creativity, not a weakness to hide. The ideas come from qualitative, grounded-theory research on thousands of interviews rather than controlled trials, so treat them as well-grounded patterns from lived experience rather than experimentally proven effects.
  2. Choose vulnerability on purpose
    Show up and let yourself be seen when there is no guarantee of the outcome.
    Daring Greatly, Made Practical
  3. Give and receive feedback with courage
    Sit on the same side of the table: feedback as a shared problem, not an attack.
    Daring Greatly, Made Practical
  4. Develop emotional courage
    Choose discomfort deliberately when the values-aligned path is harder — courage is a practice, not a trait.
    Emotional Agility, Made Practical
  5. Practice wholehearted living
    Cultivate the sense of worthiness that lets you engage life from "I am enough."
    Daring Greatly, Made Practical
  6. Use Plan B: the three-step collaborative conversation
    Empathize with the child’s concern, share yours, and invite them to solve it together.
    Collaborative Problem Solving (Ross Greene)
  7. Rumble with the story you’re telling yourself
    Name the conspiracy your mind invents in a hard moment, then check it against the facts.
    Daring Greatly, Made Practical
  8. Identify the lagging skill behind the behavior
    Name the cognitive skill the child is missing, not the behavior you want to stop.
    Collaborative Problem Solving (Ross Greene)
  9. Build the child’s inner wealth narrative over time
    Consistently reflect back who the child is becoming, not just what they’re doing.
    The Nurtured Heart Approach (Howard Glasser)
  10. Fierce motivation: push yourself from care, not contempt
    Drive high standards the same way a great coach would — with challenge rooted in belief, not criticism.
    Fierce Self-Compassion, Made Practical

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