From the Author
This book was written with one purpose in mind: to provide your children with a life vest that carries the essence of the most important life lessons we, as adults, usually learn only after years of hardships, setbacks, and heartbreak. By passing these lessons on at the very beginning of our children's journeys, we can give them the gift of a better life—richer, fuller, and far less frustrating.

Every child deserves to learn to recognize their own strengths and inner resilience and to live in alignment with them, sooner rather than later and by conscious choice—rather than by being forced to recalculate their path after circumstances have already knocked them down, as so often happens to many of us.

How can we teach our children to live life to the fullest?

As parents, we already know that life is not always a walk in the park. But when it comes to our children, we want to equip them with the tools that will help them find their way in a challenging world of self-doubt and uncertainty. We want to spare them the trouble of learning out of necessity and instill them with the positive, life-affirming beliefs that we went through so much trouble to learn.

No parenting book has offered a helpful, comprehensive, direct way of doing just that. Until now.

An optimistic, reassuring voice for new and seasoned parents, life and business coach Michal Gez shares the principles that every adult wishes they had learned early on in the form of practical parenting strategies to help your child:
Have a stronger, resilient spirit
Learn self-love
Live authentically, not according to others’ expectations
Express their emotions, desires, and feelings
Be attuned to their gut and intuition
But most importantly, provide the guidance and support they need—even when you are not around.

As the goal of every parent (and parenting book)—empowered children make the adults we all dream our children will grow up to be. With The Empowered Child, Michal Gez will help you uplift your child and guide them into being the happy, independent, resilient, and confident adults that they can be.

Michal Gez
Michal Gez is on a mission to help children (and their parents) learn to make meaningful, empowering choices in their lives. She studied positive psychology, specializing in personal, couples, and business coaching, with expertise in developing self-confidence through CBT-based methods. She became a life coach with her breakthrough method—"Become You"—a practical, results-driven framework for both children and adults to build emotional resilience, confidence, and clarity.
In her debut book, “The Empowered Child,” Michal lays bare the model's framework and offers parents the tools to raise confident, emotionally resilient, and grounded children in today's complex world.
Michal holds an LL.M. with Honors in Law and has had a long, fruitful career in global high-tech companies. In her latest role, Michal served as VP of business development at a biotech company supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She lives with her husband and their two children.

Introduction...........................................................................9
How My Journey Began........................................................11
Principle 1: Remember That Your Life
Has an Expiration Date................................................... 15
Principle 2: I Love You, Mom, But Do You
Know Who I Love the Most? Myself.............................. 21
Principle 3: Do Something for Yourself Every Day.........27
Principle 4: Marry Yourself................................................33
Principle 5: Dream Big!......................................................39
Principle 6: Build Your Power Group................................45
Principle 7: Find Your SILIS Friend
(Say it Like it is Friend)..........................................53
Principle 8: Don’t Apologize for Who You
Are and Set Boundaries...................................................59
Principle 9: Brag in Front of the Mirror...........................63
Principle 10: Happiness is a Verb, not a Noun.................69
Principle 11: Remember that Like Attracts Like..............73
Principle 12: You’re More than Good Enough................. 81
Principle 13: Go to Your Room!
Spend Time With Yourself..............................................87
Principle 14: Trust Your Intuition.....................................93
Principle 15: Don’t Depend on Other People’s
Good Opinions................................................................ 99
Principle 16: Don’t Let Negative Opinions
Define You—Especially Your Own..............................103
Principle 17: Live Mindfully.............................................109
Principle 18: Rehearse Your Success: Live As
If You’ve Already Achieved Your Dreams.....................115
Principle 19: Organize Your Home
(or at Least Make Your Bed)......................................... 123
Principle 20: Face Reality Not Fakebook....................... 129
Principle 21: Build Your Own Treasure Chest............... 135
Principle 22: Embrace Your Past..................................... 139
Principle 23: Stop Looking for Reasons
to Get Offended............................................................. 145
Principle 24: Don’t Forgive. Let it Go..............................151
Principle 25: We are Water—Our Words Matter.......... 155
Principle 26: Follow Your Passion with
Zero Expectations.......................................................... 159
Principle 27: Remember That Life Happens,
No Matter What............................................................ 163
Principle 28: Please, Don’t Look at
the Price of Cucumbers................................................. 167
Principle 29: Exercise to Be Happier.............................. 173
Principle 30: If You Fall Down, Don’t Dwell On It—
Always Get Up............................................................... 179
Summary.............................................................................181