Michelle Cox - Mindset Coach

[December 2025 NOTE: 4th Edition: 20 new pages of additional guidance to work through the Thought Cycle Diagram and get the most clarity!] Hello, Friend! Have you ever been caught off guard by your reaction to other people or events, wondered why you felt the way you did, or have struggled to understand the thoughts that overwhelm you? You are in the right place! This workbook will guide you through a very unique cognitive-behavioral tool that I developed to use in my mindset work and life co

Use this worksheet when discussing the concept of "respect for others" with your student or client! Your student will be able to focus on what actions, words and behaviors are associated with showing respect. You will also be able to discuss how it feels to show respect to others and to be receive it. Write down your student's answers in the text bubbles!

Doing a workshop or coaching a client about self-talk? After teaching the power of positive self-talk, have your client brainstorm as many powerful statements he/she can think of that makes them feel brave, confident or hopeful. Then have your client pick the one that gives them the most powerful boost and write it on the mirror handout to put up in a visible spot in his/her home. Finally, have your client practice looking into his/her own eyes in a real mirror and say the mantra out loud! It's

Goal-setting is a powerful tool for growing, expanding our possibilities, and becoming who we ultimately want to be! Use this simple tool to clearly outline what you want to achieve and how to do it. Write on the seedling what your goal is. Write around the roots each of the steps you need to take in order to reach your goal. Having a vision is critical -- and equally critical is determining individual steps that you need to take to make it a reality.

Help kids understand the connection between their thoughts and emotions! Using this Thoughts and Emotions Wheel helps kids examine thoughts that inspire uncomfortable emotions and see the direct link between them. They can then explore how to change their emotional experience by altering the thought patterns they've been operating from. Adjusting their thought to shift from a limiting belief to a supporting belief can help them resolve the uncomfortable emotions in a healthy way! This process al

Teach your students/clients the difference between Limiting and Supporting Beliefs. Print and laminate all pieces for multiple uses! Limiting Beliefs are thoughts that act like a red light and stop us from having the courage or confidence to take action to reach our goals. Supporting Beliefs are thoughts that act like a green light, give us courage and creativity to take action. Sort the wordstrips to help solidify the concepts. Example: "I can't" is a red light Limiting Belief. "I can try" is a

One of the most powerful ways to strengthen relationships is by expressing gratitude!Help kids learn this concept by using this worksheet to visualize stronger bonds, and explore things that they can do and say to express gratitude. The more they think about and describe how to show gratitude, the more their brains become wired to do so! Just like any skill, it becomes easier and easier!

Help your students or clients create a vision of who they want to be! When they understand that the map symbolizes where they're going (who they want to become) and that the compass symbolizes how to get there (how to put those qualities into practice), they develop a vision statement for themselves. This is a great way to launch into creating a vision statement or vision board!

Use this worksheet to help your children, students or clients articulate what makes them special and unique. Encourage them to label the gift boxes with different talents, skills, knowledge, interests and character traits that make them who they are, then color them in!

Give kids and teens a positive message to internalize as they color these inspiring coloring pages! 2 coloring pages are included. "Good Inside" is a phrase inspired by Dr. Becky Kennedy

Help your students or clients understand the human nervous system's perceived threat response using this visual aide. Fight, flight and freeze! Why do we feel a certain way when our brain picks up on a stimulus that it considers a threat? It's just our nervous system doing it's job to keep us safe! But, we have the power to train our brains to give appropriate responses to stimuli, whether mild or serious. We can be in control of our behavior by understanding how our threat response works!

Use this worksheet to help your student/coaching client determine the thoughts that are making the biggest impact on his/her feelings and actions. When a client understands that his/her thoughts are the biggest determining factor for how he/she goes through life, your client will begin to be more aware and intentional, and therefore, more in control of his/her life.

Get tweens and teens to think about how they would give themselves a lift through positive self-talk text messages! Have students pretend they are texting with themselves: • Think of a situation when something went wrong (ie. "My mind blanked during the class presentation"). • Reply with compassion (ie. "I'm so sorry to hear that!"). • Share your feelings (ie. "I'm feel so embarrassed"). • Encourage yourself with positive self-talk (ie. "It's ok! Everyone makes mistakes! Let's practice more

Gratitude Gumballs! Gratitude makes life sweet! Students can fill in the gumballs with things they are grateful for. Then continue to fill the page as their creativity is ignited!

Start a new family tradition! On New Year's Eve or New Year's Day, have each family member fill out a time capsule survey, including drawing a self-portrait on the back. Keep them in a container that you can designate as a time capsule and store in a safe place -- no peeking! The following New Year, fill out new surveys and then open the time capsule! It will be so fun to review interests, life events and previous goals. Keep the old surveys in a family history binder and treasure your growing c

What a great way to get children involved with acts of kindness within their own family! Each child fills out their own Secret Santa form, then a parent coordinates who will be Secret Santa for whom. Let the fun begin! Parents can provide a list of house jobs for their kids to complete in order to earn money and take them Secret Santa shopping! For example: sweep the kitchen = $1, wash 2 windows = $2, emptying a pantry shelf and wiping it down = $3 This Secret Santa guide is for 5 days - Dec 21-

Use this self-coaching guide to help kids take more responsibility for their response to the world around them!

Help students understand what neural pathways are by completing this illustration! Instructions: Draw neural pathways across your brain and label them with things you are good at or know a lot about!

FREE THANKSGIVING PRINTABLE! Download and print this free kids’ activity! Print one for each family member. ✨ With your family members, label each feather with things you are grateful for, then color in the turkey! Practice saying “Thank you!” to each other for every little action that you appreciate. Thank you for putting your shoes away. Thank you for that hug! Thank you for pouring the milk for me. Thank you for smiling at me. Thank you for sharing with your brother. Thank you for asking firs