Summer is here, and both students and teachers are enjoying a well-deserved break. As you prepare for the upcoming school year, consider the well-being of your teaching staff. Will all your teachers return next year? Some might not, possibly due to stress or personal...

In our pursuit of guiding others toward growth and transformation, we often overlook a crucial aspect: our own inner landscape. Fear, self-doubt, and limiting beliefs not only hinder our personal development and the growth of our practice but also impact our ability...

  We are excited to announce the arrival of three talented clinicians to our team. They are embarking on the transformative journey of becoming certified Triumph Steps Transformative Coaches (TSTC's), enhancing our commitment to providing exceptional services to...

  May is mental health awareness month. To honor it, Triumph Steps has offered schools a FREE one-hour presentation filled with emotional literacy tools for teachers and parents-- the two most influential forces in a child's life. Hundreds of teachers and parents...

    I hope your year has started with many blessings and that you are actively working on all the buckets that fulfill a life. What buckets are those?-- you may be asking. I read "Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway" by Susan Jeffers many years ago, and I have...

Hello friends, My heart is filled with gratitude for the exciting month I've had sharing emotional literacy tools with so many. The need for mental wellness tools is more significant than ever. I am happy to have been a guest at these beautiful events and have the...

Beatriz Martinez-Peñalver was featured in Gables Living in their June 2019 Edition

“I find the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” Thomas Jefferson Love is a many splendored thing… Love is a battlefield… All you need is Love. Love has been the perennial topic of scholars and poets alike since time began, and it is undoubtedly a crucial...

On days when emotions in the classroom are running high what is a teacher to do? Children, unlike adults, have not yet learned that they can be in control of their emotions instead of having their emotions control them. It all Starts with a Thought Emotions are the...

December 2018 Putting out milk and cookies for Santa, mischievous elves on a shelf moving throughout the house, looking out the window hoping to see Rudolph's shiny red nose in the sky… The magic of the Holidays is inextricably linked to the wide-eyed wonder of...

Can you believe that another Labor Day has just passed? Now we are fully back to schedules, homework, projects, deadlines, making sure that we encourage our children, teens, and college kids to get good grades and feel excited about learning. Many parents have asked...

Whether we like it or not, our modern world revolves around digital media. We watch television to wind down after work, surf the internet or log in to social media if we’re bored. Having a computer is no longer a barrier to getting online—most of us have and use a...

What happened at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was unthinkable. And maybe that is why it was allowed to happen. We have spent the past few decades not thinking about how to take proactive steps to prevent these tragedies from happening. We have not been...

It is interesting how life gives us very interesting gifts, offering us an opportunity to make ourselves and our world better. The present I received was a very shy child. And boy did my husband and I try our own “talk therapy” on her. You see, this child was born in...

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain-  Ralph Waldo Emerson Can you remember your biggest fear as a child? Perhaps you were scared of a monster under your bed, or of losing your parents in a large crowd. Now that you are older, you might consider your...

You have probably heard the phrase “old habits are hard to break” a thousand times throughout your lifetime. The extent to which habits control our lives are reflected in our actions, our thoughts, and the way in which we perceive the world around us. There is no...

Suicide is the Third Leading Cause of Death Among Young Adults One person commits suicide every 13 minutes. Suicide is also the third leading cause of death for 15-24 year olds, and second for 24-35 year olds, according to the Center for Disease Control. These...

Hello friends! After my meditation this morning I felt compelled to write this out of a love, sympathy and compassion for those feeling bullied for the things that are going on in the world right now. I am Colombian, and as you may very well know it is from that...

How to Beat the Procrastination Monster: Fighting The Inner Demons that Prevent Us From Progress Some of us are innately punctual and efficient at time management, but for most of us even starting a task is more brutal than the process of completing it at all....

Even though we are constantly setting goals for ourselves in our minds, it can be pretty hard to find concrete goals that we can commit ourselves to. The important thing to remember is, goals can be big or small, long-term or short-term. And both can coexist at the...

A frequent thought that often emerges in our minds when we see an adult we deem dysfunctional is, what was their childhood like? Where were their parents? The truth of the matter is that for many of these adults, there might’ve been an element of neglect but many...

What if I told you that for just a few minutes a day, you could do something that would make you feel happier, and more alive than ever? What if I told you that small task is something we very often take for granted. I’m talking about gratitude, of course. Now you...

Every year on October 10th, we celebrate World Mental Health Day. It was designated by the World Health Organization to dedicate a day where all people working or supporting the mental health field can openly talk about their work, and the efforts necessary to make...

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” —Jim Rhon   In our highly individualized society, where merit is defined in how we can differentiate ourselves from others, we all share a likeness in our obvious contrasts. At some point in...