I’m Ben Pugh. I help parents create better relationships with their teens. Come check out my memberships for parents and teens. We created Firmly Founded Coaching to help your family build awesome relationships, get guidance and support toward reaching your goals, and make the teen years more successful and fun.
Ben Pugh Coaching ⧉
From Bereaved Parents of the USA: “We come together as Bereaved Parents of the USA to provide a safe space where grieving families can connect, share our stories, and learn to rebuild our lives. We attend meetings whenever we can and for as long as we find helpful. We share our fears, confusion, anger, guilt, frustrations, emptiness, and feelings of hopelessness, knowing these emotions will be met with compassion and understanding. As we support, comfort and encourage one another, we offer hope and healing. As we confront the deaths of our loved ones, our shared grief brings us to a common ground that transcends differences, building mutual understanding across the boundaries of culture, race, faith, values, abilities, and lifestyle. Together we celebrate the lives of our children, siblings, and grandchildren, sharing the joys and the heartbreaks as well as the love that will never fade. Together, strengthened by the bonds we create, we offer what we have learned from one another to every bereaved family, no matter how recent or long ago the death. We are the Bereaved Parents of the USA. We welcome you.”
Bereaved Parents of the USA ⧉
When my fifteen-year-old son went to wilderness, I realized we both needed a reset. I felt
completely lost and scared. I wondered if change for either of us was even possible. Where was
wilderness for parents? My journey of personal-development led me to create the program I longed for as a parent. I became a certified Life Coach working exclusively with parents of struggling teens. I’m also a
facilitator of Arbinger’s Living With an Outward Mindset seminar. I have worked as the Parent
Seminar Teacher at a wilderness therapy program and the Parent and Family Program Director
at a residential treatment center.
The principles and skills I learned and applied to my parenting had a massive, life-altering
impact on me, my husband, and our five sons (especially my wilder-kid). I am living proof that
relationships can be rebuilt through the power of self-awareness and emotionally consistent
parenting. I am passionate about helping parents embody self-awareness, emotional resilience,
relationship accountability, and conscious discipline. As a coach, I teach these skills and help
you apply them to your situation all along the way. I did it for my family while transitioning my
son home, and I can help you do it for yours.
Beth helps parents – especially adoptive parents – who are struggling with attachment, boundaries, peace of mind, or their kids’ baffling behaviors. She helps adoptive parents understand adoption trauma, and empowers them to connect through authenticity and compassion.
Beth was certified as a coach in August 2023 by the Virginia Satir Global Network’s Coaching and Mentorship Program.
Testimonial by Elaine Mitchell, UK: “I am very grateful to Beth for the support and coaching offered by her. The insight shown is of such value and helps me incredibly. I would recommend coaching with Beth to any adoptive parent who feels they in need of improvement with family dynamics and confidence.”
Beth Syverson, Certified Coach ⧉Need Help Now: Let us point you in the direction of other resources. If this is an emergency, please call 911.
If you or a loved one is in emotional distress or suicidal crisis, call 988.