Transitions: The Later Teen Years

Transitions: The Later Teen Years

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THE LATER TEEN YEARS are the ones fraught with the most anxiety. Hormones speak louder than words yet often make us deaf to common sense. Whoever came up with the expression “patience is a virtue” raised a teenager.  There are many coming of age stories. There are...
Transitions: The Middle Teen Years

Transitions: The Middle Teen Years

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Mostly, I remember being nervous, sweaty and bewildered. There were those in the know and those who listened to the tales of those who knew. Years later I described it as listening to Homer tell the stories of Ulysses or Jason from Greek legends returning from their...
Transitions: The Early Teen Years

Transitions: The Early Teen Years

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AH! THE TEEN YEARS – A HORMONAL SHITSTORM I think I was a teenager once. It’s hard to remember…. A long time ago in a faraway land, I woke up in this chemical furnace called my body and wondered “WTF?” All of a sudden there were a lot of questions without any...
Transitions: A Blog Series Introduction

Transitions: A Blog Series Introduction

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Yesterday morning I was doing a zoom session with a parent and a 10-year-old boy. The agent told the parent and the kid that “when Lewis says you’re ready. I’ll take you on.” (I’ve done this for a few agents over the years, so it wasn’t like it...