Stefanie Palermo Lagana, founder of Expanding Your Visions, a company specializing in Teen/Parent Empowerment Life Coaching. Her passion enables her to empower tomorrow’s leaders teaching essential life and leadership skills helping teens to make informed choices for a greater future with confidence, self-worth, purpose, passion, and inspiration.
Stefanie earned a bachelor's degree from Georgian Court University, worked in the creative field for over 20 years as a Senior Art Director in some of the top Advertising Agencies in the world. She also has two teenage children of her own and has been a single mom for most of their life.
Stefanie has been recognized for Individual Achievement by Cambridge’s Who's Who Among Executive and Professional Women in April 2009. She is also a monthly columnist for Today's Teen Magazine .
As a Certified Empowerment Life Coach, Stefanie uses her creative background to help her clients use creativity to unlock their true potential and leadership abilities. She engages her clients in interactive play and games to educate them to learn how to shift thoughts to see challenges and situations from different perspectives, allowing them to recognize the opportunities available to them. Visit http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Prasanna-Gunturi to hear Stefanie’s life’s journey on becoming a coach.
Stefanie has been on her own journey and because of that journey she helps her clients who are in the process of a divorce or about to begin the process. Through her own life experiences Stefanie has the ability to walk this journey along side you, empowering, inspiring and helping you rediscover who you really are. Visit her web-site and review her story in the tab section Divorce Parent Survival Coach
What's in YOUR medicine cabinet that can harm your teen,
their friends and your community?
"Pharm" parties are becoming increasingly more popular among our teenage children. In today's teen world Pharmaceutical drugs are as easy to access as a bowl of cheerios. Teens are raiding their parents, their friends and grandparents medicine cabinets for prescription drugs. These parties are called "farming" and they are dangerous to our teens! A "Pharm" party is usually at a home where parents are out. Kids raid prescription drugs from their cabinets, empty their pockets into a large bowl, mix it up, grab a handful, and swallow them usually with some alcohol and VOILA.... a free high. The frightening part is that the combination of these drugs can be and usually is, deadly! This is a serious issue in our communities and we need to stop the madness, and it starts at home.
What's the cost of NOT to communicating with your child? What's the risk?I know we as parents want to believe that "our children" wouldn't do such a thing they're smarter than that, etc. However the reality is; in order to keep that statement true we need to open our eyes, educate, protect and be aware of where your teen is, who they are with and what they are doing.
A few things you can do: Explain to your teen the dangers and risks of mixing unknown drugs, (especially with alcohol). Know where you teens are going; if there will be a parent at home and speak to that parent! Share this information with everyone you know. Alert them to secure their prescriptions in a safe place. Keep track of your refills, and if your child has been prescribed a drug, you administer it and control it.
This article was written by Stefanie Palermo Lagana for Today's Teen Magazine July 2009 issue
Expanding Your Visions
Helping Teens & Parents Make better Choices For A Better Future
Stefanie Palermo Lagana
Associate Certified Empowerment Life Coach
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