Coach Sarah Stack

The front of food packaging is marketing. The back is where the truth lives.

And if you've ever stood in a grocery store aisle trying to figure out what to put in your daughter's bag before a big game, you deserve better than being sold to.

Here's what I teach every athlete I work with: flip it over. The ingredients list and the nutrition label will tell you more in 10 seconds than any bold claim on the front ever will.

When a teen girl understands what she's actually putting in her body and why it matters for her energy, her recovery, and her performance, everything shifts.

If you want to build that foundation with your athlete, DM me the word JOURNAL! 🧾

The dropout rate for girls in sports between ages 13 and 17 should be a national conversation.

But here's what we don't talk about: most of these girls aren't quitting because they stopped loving their sport. They're quitting because the system stopped working for their body.

Programs designed for male athletes, scaled down and slapped with a different name, are not specialized coaching. They're a placeholder.

Your daughter deserves better than a placeholder.



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We hand teen girls a sport, a schedule, and a set of expectations and then act surprised when their confidence cracks under the weight of it.

Mindset training isn't a luxury reserved for the elite. It's the tool that should be in every young athlete's bag from day one.

The girls I work with aren't all going pro. Most won't. But every single one of them deserves to walk off the field knowing how to talk to herself.



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Happy Mother’s Day to the moms raising strong girls. 💐

The ones cheering from the sidelines, packing the snacks, managing the schedules, wiping the tears, celebrating the wins, and reminding their daughters who they are when the world gets loud.

You are shaping more than athletes.
You are shaping confident, resilient young women.

Wishing you a beautiful Mother’s Day!

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For generations, the conversations that matter most for teen girl athletes have happened in whispers — if they happened at all.

Periods. Fueling. GI issues. The mental load of competing in a body that's changing every month.

We've handed our daughters training plans built for boys and wondered why they're burning out, getting injured, or quietly stepping away from the sport they used to love.

It's not a willpower issue. It's a specialization issue.

Power & Grace was built to change that — share this with the mom who's been looking for someone who actually gets it.



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If you've ever stood in your kitchen at 6 AM trying to figure out what to feed your daughter before practice.. this is for you.

Sports nutrition for teen girls has nothing to do with weight. Nothing. It's about giving her body what it needs to do the thing she loves without breaking down.

When we teach girls to fuel for performance, we hand them something diet culture has tried to take away for generations: trust in their own bodies.

That's the work. That's the whole work.



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One of the biggest challenges teen girl athletes face? Big emotions.

And if we encourage them to bottle those emotions up, they're not going anywhere. They're just getting tamped down until one day they explode.

So in the Mindset pillar of my MeNToR coaching paradigm, we teach girls to get comfortable with the uncomfortable. To sit with their emotions and give them space.

One tool that works? Journaling. And giving them prompts makes it easier to start.

Here are 4 journaling prompts you can give your daughter tonight:

1. What was the best part of your day today?

2. What was the most challenging part of your day today?

3. What could you have done differently to affect the outcome of your challenge?

4. What are you grateful for today?

It's the actual action of dealing with these feelings allowing them to exist instead of pushing them down.

This is one of the mindset tools I teach in 1:1 coaching and Power & Grace mindset workshops.

Save this post and share it with your athlete.

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