Zen Tiger Mind

10/10/2025

Practicing Mental Health is caring about thoughts and feelings. It’s being patient with your emotions and taking care of yourself. Autonomy helps you do that!

➡️ Autonomy for Athletes is important for confidence!

➡️ When athletes experience autonomy they feel in charge and lead themselves.

➡️ Autonomy is decision making, it’s doing for the self, caring for the self, and reaching for the goals you’ve set.

➡️ Autonomy is giving power to another to feel ownership and self love.

➡️ Autonomy is what our athletes want and need in order to grow! So let's have fun and teach it to them. You can do it! Let's go!!

Happy world mental health day from Zen Tiger Mind!

10/04/2025

Kids today are vulnerable and sensitive to pressure and high standards. To overcome stress & difficulty, contemporary science says resilience is skill building + supportive environment - unfolding over time:

➡️ Emotion identification, self-regulation, problem-solving, help-seeking, autonomy - within systems (family, school, team culture)—all trainable in kids.  

➡️ Every gym and child activity centre is part of the system. When you integrate mental fitness, you will positively impact health, wellness, and advance performance.  

🤩 Check out the Resilience curriculum, Essential - with 44 exercises for your mental fitness program!  zentigermind.com/store  

💵 USE CODE “RESILIENCE” for $50 off!  You’re amazing! You can do it!

09/16/2025

Kids’ brains get overwhelmed when adjusting to
* school schedules
* social interactions
* new teachers
* new expectations
* different sleep schedule
* homework
Etc

They can’t articulate the overwhelming feelings. But they need EXTRA LOVE AND COMPASSION.

Write down and post it ON the refrigerator-
GIVE EXTRA LOVE
CREATE INNER CALM
BREATHE DEEPLY
BE KIND TO MYSELF

Read this out loud in the morning, in the afternoon, at night.
Smile.
Give more hugs.

Avoid lots of questioning of kids.
Give them 20-30 min after school to decompress.
Tell them “I’m here for you. I got you. I love you.”

At Zen Tiger Mind, we help you care for your kids. Mental Fitness practices are the way to Mental Health. Make it a priority. ❤️❤️❤️

07/15/2025

Resilience is evolving. No longer a static mindset or decision to bounce back after difficulty. Science says Resilience has changed in this era - it is a dynamic process. Kids and coaches need education, tools and daily practice to nurture ways of becoming more resilient. We support coaches, young athletes and all kids in getting up to date, and we have tools in our new Resilience program. Follow the conversation and Lisa's travels.
Zen Tiger Mind will be in Auckland, NZ! Sharing our new curriculum, Resilience. Thanks to Ashleigh McCaw!
ZTM President, Lisa Mitzel will be traveling in Brisbane, Gold Coast and Auckland, NZ. Be curious! Enjoy!

We are excited to have Lisa Mitzel (Zen Tiger Mind) visiting Active Attitude on the 29th July to run a "Resilience Workshop."

If you have a child age 7+ and would like to attend, please register via the QR code. It is thanks to our Active Angels that half of the workshop costs have been subsided, so the cost is only $15 per family.

Lisa is from the USA, so we are super lucky to have her visiting us while she is in New Zealand.

About Lisa...
She is a Mental Training and Mental Health Coach. Whether in the sports or education communities, Lisa coaches these important tools to face difficulties and achieve goals. Athletes and coaches can benefit from deeper perspective on how to train with higher-mind thinking, and parents and educators become more aware of the inner journey and methods to support and encourage kids. Lisa has spoken at many universities and given clinics for various sports teams, including the following…
Colleges and Schools: Harvard University, Brown University, Denver University, University of Nebraska, Boise State University, San Jose State University, Stanford University, Santa Ana College, Summit Prep School.
Sports Teams: Olympus Gymnastics, Bingham HS Dance Team, Santa Ana College Track & Cross Country, Parkettes National Training Center, 20 Mile Athletic Club, World Elite Gymnastics, Black Diamond Gymnastics, Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy, SCATS, Emerald City Gymnastics Academy, Redmond Gymnastics Academy.

Lisa is the Founder & President of Zen Tiger Mind and has recently released a NEW "Resilience" Mental Health and Performance Program, which we look forward to hearing more about when she visits.

07/04/2025

We support all coaches in their journey. Learning to be more patient, kind, and compassionate is the way to develop mentally healthy athletes who learn to be kind to themselves - and become stronger inside and more resilient.

06/30/2025

CAN YOU READ MINDS? Can you read your child’s mind? Well, maybe their moods and body language. Watch closely because it’s EASY for a child to frequently get frustrated and self-criticize.

➡️ BUT Kids cannot thrive when they’re in a cycle of self-criticism.
Wherever they go, whatever they do, do they FEEL Not good enough?
Be proactive ➡️ practice WITH your child.

🤩 FREE VIDEO
Zen Tiger Mind now has 2 FREE. Tutorials. Self-compassion is one.
It’s 2 minutes! Watch it! Show your kids! Practice together AT THE GYM DURING PRACTICE. Or at bedtime. 3-5x a week.

🎥 YOUTUBE - search Zen Tiger Mind
Self-Compassion. Or use the link below.
https://youtu.be/SryHdOqb7eA?feature=shared
Or use 🔗 in our bio!

👍🏼 NORMALIZE self-kindness.
Help kids wire and rewire the brain to be KIND to themself. THEN they will thrive.

💰$80 off Resilience Essential using code vanessa80.
Visit zentigermind.com/store

06/19/2025

SELF-COMPASSION IS NOT
*soft
*weak
*lazy
*or self-indulgent
SELF-COMPASSION IS A SKILL you learn and practice in the Resilience curriculum.
You apply it in a moment of struggle. This is very impactful in child development and sports

👍🏼 We are thrilled to offer you “Reslience” Essential - Zen Tiger Mind’s Mental Health & Performance Program, a science-based curriculum that is an ‘add-on’ to your lessons for your child activity center.
Our Resilience Program focuses on exercises designed to be simple, short, and applicable year-round. Staff will get elevated learning with the kids in 5-10 min intervals to reduce stress and navigate emotions. Essential to healthy brain development, emotional wellness, and improving performance, supporting the needs of our youth.

You get FREE support from Zen Tiger Mind. This is a $700 value.
Use code RESILIENCE to get $50 off.
VISIT - Zentigermind.com/store
Or click 🔗 in our bio
😁👍🏼🛎️

06/16/2025

➡️ It’s HARD to be compassionate when you were taught in sports you have to be tough. Suck it up. No crying. Go harder.

➡️ This tears down kids’ ability to know themselves, their feelings, and learn how to heal. They carry the tension of fear and stress that they aren’t tough enough, strong enough, or good enough.

➡️ To truly be resilient, compassion is required. Resilience is the result of caring for oneself, and feeling cared for by others. We have the exercises for you.

➡️ Zen Tiger Mind created the
Resilience curriculum with science-based tools and exercises for coaches and kids. In 5-10 min increments, you can add-on simple exercises to build awareness, compassion, body positive, self-kindness and more.
🤩 GO TO: Zentigermind.com/store
Resilience Essential has 44 exercises.
Use code RESILIENCE for $50 OFF the Resilence Essential curriculum.
A $700 value, you receive personal support & training from the author, Lisa Mitzel.

10/11/2024

ANOTHER SNEAK PEEK!
TRAINING & LESSONS IN SELF-COMPASSION are easy to learn & apply as a coach, and easy and beneficial for the kids.

ESSENTIAL IN TEACHING
This is an essential tool for coaches & instructors. You will be better equipped when helping a child or when you’re feeling stuck or overwhelmed.

Kids will manage their difficult moments and emotions better and be happier and more productive.

Parents will see their kids get through a challenge and bounce back faster.

Zen Tiger Mind’s New Staff Training, Curriculum and Parent Education in Mental Health is coming soon!

KEEP FOLLOWING US as we share specific tools and practices. We support you!

Zen Tiger Mind is leading the way!
😁❤️💥

10/02/2024

Sneak Peek! New Mental health education and staff training materials from Zen Tiger Mind.

🌈 Be proactive and teach kids to be in tune with their breath and body.

🌈 Practice with kids - say INHALE, and trace the red rainbow line to the right. Say EXHALE and trace the orange line to the left.

🌈 Teach kids to pay attention and feel their body expand…and contract.

🌈 As their minds focus on the breath they start to feel more safe and in control. They will feel their in power grow stronger.

🌈 This is a great precursor to doing an activity that takes a lot of concentration.

🌈 Prepare your kids and athletes to be mentally focused, at ease, and to perform great. Improve youth mental health!

➡️ Tell us if you like this exercise. And would you like more?

Thanks! 💕

06/27/2024

ZEN TIGER MIND (ZTM) is creating new materials & curriculum for mental health education. And partnering with 3RD LEVEL CONSULTING!
We hear your needs and want to support you!
CHECK IT
Are your athletes
Feeling stressed, pressured?
Scared?
Not good enough?
Anxious to prove they are worthy?
WE GOT YOU 😉
To get a FREE introductory 5-Day Plan for Mental Health Activities to teach kids & teens -
LEAVE A COMMENT!
Say “5-Day Plan”
and we will send you a DM with info!

VISIT US AT USAG NATIONAL CONGRESS
Zen Tiger Mind will be with
Booth 119 - the “island”. We are teaming up for Youth Mental Health in every child activity center!
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05/18/2024

TO SHINE YOUR LIGHT, you stretch and reach. As you work, strive, and push yourself, as you slip and fall and pick up yourself - YOUR MIND AND SPIRIT may hurt…and suffer.

That’s part of being human.

Be a light in slowing down. Take a pause, or surely your mental health will decline. To reach your goals, to care for others, your mental health is very important.

Nurture, nurture, nurture yourself — and you
WILL BE RESILIENT.

Practice self-compassion - hold yourself in the present moment, right now, know that everyone experiences emotions, hard emotions. Breathe in and out deeply, and connect to peace within yourself through loving kindness.

To every young athlete, we care about you, we are cheering for you!

May is Mental Health Awareness Month.
Zen Tiger Mind cares about your mental health and that of every child.