Breathe • Stretch • Life Skills
Mindful Tools for Growth, Resilience & Connection.
What Is Powerful You?
Powerful You is a collection of mindful tools, stories, and life skills created by school counselor and yoga educator Julie Frizzi to help children—and the adults who care for them—grow calmer, stronger, and more connected.
Through breathing, stretching, storytelling, positive self-talk, and reflection, Powerful You helps parents, grandparents, caregivers, and educators discover and practice tools they can share with children.
The twenty-six Powerful You kids bring important life skills to life through short, engaging stories and meaningful questions. Reading together opens the door to conversations about feelings, friendships, challenges, and choices. Positive self-talk reminders help children return to these skills and practice them in everyday life.
Simple tools. Meaningful conversations. Skills for life.
For Educators & School Counselors
Bring meaningful social-emotional learning and life skills into your classroom or counseling program with Powerful You!
Our Primary, Intermediate, and Self-Built Teens A–Z programs support the ASCA Student Standards: Mindsets & Behaviors for Student Success and connect with the CASEL 5 core social-emotional competencies: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.
Explore how Powerful You helps children and teens build confidence, manage emotions, strengthen relationships, and develop skills for everyday life.
WHAT POWERFUL YOU MAKES POSSIBLE
Imagine feeling calmer, more confident, and better prepared to connect with the children in your life.
Powerful You helps parents, grandparents, caregivers, and educators discover simple tools they can use themselves and share with children. Through engaging stories, meaningful conversations, positive self-talk, breathing, and movement, everyday moments become opportunities to connect, learn, and grow together.
Whether you're reading a story, talking through a challenge, practicing a calming breath, or returning to a positive self-talk reminder on the refrigerator, you're helping children discover their own inner tools for navigating life's ups and downs.
Most importantly, Powerful You helps you make room for what matters: connecting with one another, caring for yourself, laughing more, finding joy in everyday moments, and recognizing that even the smallest interactions can make a lasting difference.
It starts with you. Then it ripples out.
Whether you support one child, a small group, a classroom, or an entire school, Powerful You provides practical tools that are easy to begin using.
Start With a Free Powerful You Resource
Download calendars, bulletin-board materials, classroom signs, and other tools created for busy educators and support professionals.
What Educators Are Saying:
“Powerful You is my bible as a school counselor. I turn to this book whenever I feel stuck or stressed out.” Katie Carney - Elementary School Counselor
“My kids always enjoy listening to the students stories (which they deeply relate to.). They have memorized each lesson’s positive self-talk.” Jennifer Sanchez - 4th Grade Teacher
“I plan my whole year using Powerful You. I could focus more on my students and less on planning.” Denise Steffins - School Counselor
“The Direct Dalia lesson worked like a charm for a large group of fourth-grade girls. It was an amazing counseling session.” Amy - School Counselor
I love the breathe and stretch book and exercises. Thank you for creating the free videos that match the lessons. I truly appreciate it. I taught fitness classes for 20 years, but don’t have time in my day to even set up my two gyms let alone create my own videos.” Jodie Rusznack - Physical Education Teacher & After School Teacher
Breathe, Stretch, and Practice With Julie
Explore free yoga, breathing, and movement videos created for children, educators, families, and anyone who wants to feel calmer, stronger, and more connected.
Julie Frizzi is a school counselor, educator, author, and yoga teacher who created Powerful You to make life-skill learning active, meaningful, and easier to use with children.