Conscious Joy Coaching

Thank you for visiting my website! Im thrilled to have you here! My name is Joy Rigberg, MEd, MA, CTACC, and as a Life Coach and mindfulness educator my sole intention and desire is to inspire adolescent & teenage girls to love themselves unconditionally and to discover and celebrate their uniqueness! I have dedicated my life to working with and he... lping children. I have over 25 years of experience as a bilingual endorsed, fluent Spanish speaking, elementary school teacher and Life Coach. The majority of my teaching career was spent as a first grade teacher in a predominantly Hispanic and low income school district in Phoenix, Arizona. I know firsthand about the daily pressures teachers face surrounding student performance and improving test scores. As a result children of all ages are being overwhelmed by mountains of homework and imposing consequences at school and home. Their creativity, imagination, and desire to learn is being stifled. As girls today face these enormous pressures at school, home, with peers, as well as in the culture and media, they are losing their confidence, self-esteem, desire and motivation. This pressure is resulting in increased stress, anxiety, anger, and depression. As a consequence, they are forgetting their natural inner strengths and resources, and are struggling to maintain their creative authentic expression. As a born teacher and life long student I recognized I had arrived at the peak of my classroom teaching career and that the time for change had come. I knew I wanted to continue working with children and adolescents, and that I needed a more innovative, imaginative, and experiential approach, hence, the creation of Conscious Joy Coaching. Having survived, at first and later thriving through my own challenging childhood and adolescence, with the guidance of several amazing coaches and mentors, is what attracted me into working once again with young girls, as I have an understanding of the anxiety, judgement, pressure, fears, depression, worries and stress that they ...Read More