Youth Coaching Institute, LLC

🌟 Cheers to the New Year! 🌟 As we step into 2025, we're reminded that every goal begins with a single step — and every step matters. Here's to embracing new challenges, celebrating wins (big and small), and becoming the best version of ourselves. 💪✨ The future is yours to create. Let's make it count!

New Year, new purpose! 🎇 Let 2025 be the year you reach back and empower the next generation to overcome and thrive! Our Certified Youth Health Coach training path prepares caring adults to offer mental health coaching, behavioral health coaching, health and wellness coaching, emotional wellness coaching, and/or recovery coaching for teens and emerging adults.  If you have tweens, teens, and/or emerging adults in your life, you are likely aware that adolescents are currently experiencing a mental health crisis. According to the CDC’s (2023) High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey of over 17,000 students, 🔴53% of females and 28% of males reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness during the past year 🔴39% of females and 19% of males reported experiencing poor mental health during the past 30 days 🔴27% of females and 14% of males reported seriously considering attempting suicide during the past year 🔴13% of females and 6% of males reported attempting suicide in the past year Mental health interventions that don't address physical and social needs are insufficient. They can be temporary bandages that don't address root causes. This is why our CYHC path includes a Lifestyle Medicine for Adolescents course to integrate the six pillars of lifestyle medicine for holistic health. Nutrition 💠 Consuming ultra-processed foods has been found to be associated with an increased risk of depression (Mazloomi et al., 2022) 💠90-95% of serotonin is produced in our gut and highly influenced by our intestinal microbiome (Selhub, 2022). Seratonin regulates mood, sleep, digestion, executive functions, etc. Exercise 💠Sedentary time has been found to be associated with mood disturbance (DeMello et al., 2018) 💠Physical exercise reduces anxiety, depression and improves mood (Mandolesi et al., 2018; Pearce, Garcia, & Abbas, 2022) 💠Exercise including, walking, yoga, jogging, and strength training have recently been found to be as effective at treating depression as psychotherapy and antidepressants (Noetel, et al. 2024) Sleep 💠Improving sleep quality reduces depression, anxiety, and stress with a dose-response relationship (Scott et al., 2021) Social Connection 💠Loneliness can predict and exacerbate social anxiety, depression, eating disorders, suicidal ideation, and suicidal action (Hickin et al., 2021) Stress Management 💠Stress management interventions have been found to effectively reduce distress, anxiety, and depression (Amanvermezet al. 2023) 💠Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) effectively reduces anxiety and depression (Fisher, Li, & Malabu, 2023) Avoiding Risky Substances 💠High-potency cannabis use associated with higher likelihood of anxiety disorder (Hines et al. 2020) 💠Smoking tobacco is associated with higher mental distress (Lien, Bolstad, & Bramness, 2021) 💠Excessive alcohol use contributes to anxiety and depression (CDC, 2024) Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gANi5-6J

Micronutrients = Mighty Benefits! 💪 Equip yourself with this public resource on vitamins for kids & teens from Children's Minnesota. From broccoli to milk, learn where to find essential nutrients for growing bodies. 🥦 #coaching #lifecoach #youthcoaching #healthcoach #personaldevelopment

Registration is now open for the **Certified Youth Health Coach** program! 🎉 This course is perfect for new or existing coaches, leaders, and staff in youth-serving organizations who want to integrate health and wellness coaching into their programs. 🌱 Through 91 hours of live training and hands-on experience, you’ll gain expertise in health and wellness principles, resilience strategies, and lifestyle medicine for youth. 💪 Complete the program and earn the Certified Youth Health Coach, Certified Resilience Coach, and Certified Youth Well-being Coach designations. 🏅 **Upcoming Certification Schedule**: - **Winter 2025**:     - Group 1: Tuesdays 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM US Central Time 🕚     - Group 2: Tuesdays 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM US Central Time 🕠 - **Registration Deadline**: January 21, 2025 🗓️ Start your self-study now and join us for live training beginning February 18! 🚀

From helping young people make healthier lifestyle choices to connecting them with vital community resources, our Certified Youth Health Coaches (CYHC) are creating lasting waves of wellness and empowerment. #coaching #lifecoach #youthcoaching #youthsupport #bettertogether

Empowering adolescents to build trust and find someone to confide in isn’t just a goal—it’s a movement. #coaching #lifecoach #youthcoaching #youthsupport #bettertogether

Education is the most powerful tool we have to shape futures, open doors, and transform lives. Whether we’re learning new skills or expanding our minds, education is the foundation for growth and change. 🌱📚

🌟 Looking for a Youth Life Coach? 🌟 Explore our directory of **Certified Youth Resilience Coaches** who are trained to apply evidence-based coaching for youth and young adults. 🌱 All of our coaches offer virtual sessions internationally, and some even provide in-person coaching for those local to their areas. 🌍 Ready to learn more? Just click the link in their profiles to find out about their services! 📲

Happy Holidays from the Youth Coaching Institute! 🎉 Thank you for being part of our community and inspiring us every day. Wishing you a holiday filled with joy, reflection, and hope for the amazing year ahead! ✨

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I highly recommend the Youth Resiliency Coaching Certification offered by the Youth Coaching Institute. As a Pediatric Cardiologist in Canada, I enrolled in this program to better support the youth and adolescents in my practice, many of whom have underlying heart disease. Through this certification, I gained valuable insights on how to support and facilitate young people to navigate the challenges of puberty, education, sports, and maintaining social connections. This experience was truly transformative for me, as I learned the importance of creating a safe and non-judgmental space for teenagers to express themselves and make their own choices. I am excited to integrate these learnings into my daily practice and empower teenagers and young adults to build resilience and strive towards their best selves, regardless of any underlying medical conditions they may have.” **Kathryn Armstrong, Google Review**