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Siah Fried Coach I'm Siah Fried|Parent & Family Coach|NBC-HWC|MPH. 30 years in clinics,college & high school classrooms watching the mental health epidemic unfold in real time.

Parenting&wellness support without blame or shame.🔗Free Parent Guide: www.siahfriedcoach.com I am Siah Fried. I am a health and parent coach. My career spans over 30 years in the public health field with a breadth of experience educating and coaching very diverse populations on a vast array of health topics from chronic disease management and prevention to resilience and mental health coaching. I have taught or coached various health topics in hospitals, clinics, and classrooms from preschool to college and every grade between. There isn’t a health topic, situation, or personality that I have not come across. There are two ways you can work with me:

Health & Wellness Coaching

I am a Nationally Board Certified (NBHWC) Health and Wellness coach, with a master's degree in public health. My experience includes 10 years as a clinical health educator, 17 years as a health, nutrition, and women’s health professor, and 4 years as a high school health teacher. As your health and wellness coach, I will support you as you connect the dots between your health goals and/or doctor’s recommendations and the practical steps needed to achieve sustainable results. Parent Coaching

I am also a Certified Parent Coach through the Jai Institute of Parenting. My experience as a parent coach includes the work I did for 18 years as a school health consultant and the work I continue to do as a parent health educator for the local school district. Most importantly, I am a parent of 2 grown kids and 1 teenager. I have helped parents (including myself) and students overcome hundreds of stress and mental health challenges over the years. As your parent coach, I will support you as you support your child through an eating disorder or other mental health challenge.

10/02/2026

This one stayed with me:

“Mental illness doesn’t kill, but stigma does.”

When people feel ashamed, judged, or afraid to speak up, they may stay silent.

We don’t have to have all the answers.

We do need to make it safe to talk. đź’™

09/28/2026

What if we taught kids to understand what their body is doing before asking them to control it?

I was talking with a 5th grade class about fight or flight and asked them:

Is taking a test the same as being chased by a saber-toothed tiger?

Of course not.

But sometimes the body reacts as though it is.

That’s the part I want kids to understand.

Stress isn’t always about the situation itself. Sometimes it’s the body sounding an alarm.

When kids can recognize that, they can begin asking:

Am I actually in danger, or does this just feel uncomfortable?

That gives them a new lens on their own behavior.

And when we understand what’s behind the behavior, we have a much better chance of knowing what to do next.

Want help figuring out what may be underneath the behavior? My free Move FORWARD Parent Reflection Tool can help.

09/26/2026

“You just want everything to be OK for your kids... and sometimes you can’t do that.”
Sometimes I’m watching something that has nothing to do with parenting, and a single comment stops me because it has everything to do with the families I work
with.
Parent coaching is always on my mind, so I’Il often hear a quote from a completely different place that gives me a new lens on parenting. Sometimes a new lens is exactly what helps a family move FORWARD.

While watching America’s Sweethearts:
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, I heard Faith Ward’s mom say:
“You just want everything to be OK for your kids... and sometimes you can’t do that.”

That may be one of the hardest truths in parenting.
As parents, we want to protect our children.
We want to fix the problem.
We want to take away the hurt.
But we can’t.
And if we’re honest, trying to rescue them from every disappointment, failure, or criticism may actually keep them from developing the resilience they’ll need throughout life.

Our role isn’t to make sure life is always okay. Our role is to help our children learn they can be okay, even when life isn’t.
That shift doesn’t make parenting easier. But it often makes it wiser.
No blame. No shame. Just FORWARD.



09/26/2026

Did you catch the saddest line in this clip? It wasn’t the crying. It was...

“Everything’s fine.”

This clip isn’t really about cheerleading.
It’s about something I see every day.
A young woman quietly leaves the room to cry. Then someone says,”We all need approval sometimes.”

And another responds sarcastically,
“Everything’s fine. Everything is perfect.”

That’s when I get curious.
Because behavior is a message.
Sometimes tears are the message.
Sometimes perfectionism is the message. Sometimes overachieving is the message. Sometimes pretending everything’s okay...is the message.

The question isn’t, “What’s wrong with them?”. The question is, “What pressure are they carrying?”

Because that’s where understanding begins. And that’s where healing begins.

How many times have you said,
“I’m fine,” when you really weren’t?

Save this for someone who needs permission to stop pretending.

“Everything’s perfect.”

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