Meet Levi
Levi Daniels
— Teen Life Coach
“So who is Levi, anyways?”
Well, the answer depends on how philosophical you want to get. 😉
But let’s keep things real with a quick version of how I ended up working with teens to help them flourish.
I was an imaginative, curious kid who grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. As a pre-teen, I tried hard to fit in and get the better of bullies. I’d fight to defend myself and, in an attempt to fit in with the popular kids, was defiant with a big I-don’t-care attitude. At the same time, my family was going through some financial turmoil that, despite them both doing their absolute best to control, took a toll on our family’s health. That acted as a massive motivator for me to clean up my act in high school. I worked my butt off (hello, 4:30 am wake-ups and before/during/after school training) with the goal of landing a spot on a university tennis team in the USA. Fast-forward a couple of years, and I made it to Chicago, Illinois, playing tennis whilst studying and traveling the world. I was living the dream! Or so it seemed.
Whilst in my final year of studying, my mental health nose-dived into such an abysmal state that I was in and out of hospital. Right after graduating with a BS in Biomedical Sciences (a rough ride towards the end!), I returned to Cape Town for 4 months of in-patient rehabilitation. Rehab was by far the toughest and most transformative experience I’ve encountered to this day, as I had to confront patterns of thinking and behavior that had become my nature, but were also killing me. Tiny habits had, over many years, grown into a self-destructive machine. Developing new habits was a matter of life or death!
It helped me realize that the lines we draw between health/dis-ease, physical/non-physical, and even life/death are much less binary or clear-cut than we realize.
Living a healthy, fulfilling, meaningful life requires a deep commitment to learning about and living into the fulness of our identities, especially as they evolve, so that we can have integrity within ourselves: all the parts of ourselves. From that place of foundational wholeness, we become able to share our Selves fully and joyfully with others.
After many years of healing work and of helping youth through their challenges, I’ve come to experience life anew. This brings me to my life purpose: to facilitate growth, and help others toward their best health. It took years of guidance and daily habits to come this realization, and it’s absolutely changed my life. Through years and years of tiny habits, I’ve become more energized, more joyful, and more successful in all the metrics I’ve decided to measure success with.
That’s why I’ve built this website: to help teens become more energized, joyful and successful. All the knowledge I share here is the culmination of years of experience teaching and coaching youth, engaging in self-development, and studying psychology (informally and formally). I integrate wisdom that has worked for millennia with rigorous science to provide youth with tools so they can flourish.
My Mission
My goal is to continually help teens move from merely surviving to thriving; from being anxious about an uncertain future to being excited by its possibilities. My hope is that each teen comes to believe that they can. If you’re a teen reading this, I hope this website will assure you that at every stage of your journey, you are already enough.
So, thank you for letting me help you and your teen thrive. Enjoy the content: I made it for you! Let me know if you need more help.
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