I’ve always been passionate about children’s mental health. After becoming a parent, I grew increasingly curious about resilience—how children “bounce back,” manage big emotions, develop confidence and grow emotionally. This led me to leave my corporate career, retrain, and qualify as a children’s mindset coach in 2023. While learning more about neuroscience and how the brain is the hungriest organ in the body, I became fascinated by how food impacts mood and completed an introductory course in nutritional psychiatry to deepen my own understanding.

Coaching children is deeply rewarding. When we give children practical tools and strategies instead of consequences, we teach them skills—not fear, we empower them. When children know better, they do better. Watching them grow in self-esteem, shift from cautious to curious and from hesitant to thriving is what makes this work so meaningful to me.

Victoria Rifaat