Resources
Explore my books, guides, and courses for HR Leaders, Young Adults, and Parents
For HR Leaders
Understand Gen Z. Retain Gen Z.
A FREE practical, therapist-informed playbook for HR leaders and managers who want to stop guessing, start listening, and build workplaces Gen Z actually wants to stay in.
For Young Adults
True You: A Step-by-Step Guide to Conquering Your Quarter-Life Crisis
Tess Brigham, MFT, BCC, invites you on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment. This guide is your compass to navigate the turbulence of your twenties, offering practical tools and heartfelt wisdom to help you gain clarity, build confidence, and design a life you’re excited to live. It’s packed with actionable steps, reflective exercises, and insights tailored to the challenges of modern adulthood. Tess tackles the external noise—societal expectations, family pressures, and social media comparisons—while helping you tune into what truly matters: your values, passions, and vision for the future.
Whether you're feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure of your next step, True You is here to help you move past fear and self-doubt. By the last page, you’ll feel equipped to embrace change, set meaningful goals, and take control of your own narrative.
This book is a lifeline for anyone ready to live authentically and thrive during one of life’s most transformative decades. Are you ready to meet your true self?
COURSE
True You: Finding Your Path
In the complete TRUE YOU series, I take your hand and walk you through the exact exercises my clients have used for the past 20+ years to move past their biggest roadblocks that have been holding them back from being truly happy and actually liking their lives.
If finding your true self is a journey, you can consider this self-guided 6-part course your passport. In the complete TRUE YOU series, we’ll dive deeper into some of the specific topics I wrote about in LIKE NOW, and you’ll develop strategies to help you actively create the future you want.
A Radically Practical Guide to Liking Your 20s
It’s a funny thing, but the best way to change your life is to start liking your life exactly as it is right now. Not the way it’ll be next week, next month, or in five years—like, NOW now. That’s why it’s the title of my book of truly simple writing exercises that helped my real life clients get centered and make the Really Big Changes—time after time.
Bundle and save with a set of four career worksheets:
Should I Quit My Job?
Journal prompts to help you make choices about your career when you hate your job. Whether you’re bored at work, have a toxic manager, feel like you’re not being paid enough or seen as a leader, making the decision to quit your job is not something you want to take lightly. Everyone has had one of those days (or maybe weeks, months?!) where they fantasize about storming into their bosses office, telling them how you really feel about this job and then storming out with two middle fingers in the air.
While this is a great fantasy, leaving your job shouldn’t be a rash decision. You want to be able to make the decision when you’re calm and clear about what you want from your career. This way you can leave your job knowing that this was the right decision at the right time for you.
How Do I Get Promoted?
Here are some journal prompts to help you set yourself up for success to get that promotion. Getting a promotion, whether big or small, is always exciting. Promotions feel so good because your hard work is being rewarded and your managers have noticed what you have contributed to your organization. Getting promoted does a lot for your confidence and sense of self.
There are times in our careers when you get promoted quickly and other times where you feel like you’re stuck at one level for too long. The process of getting promoted is also tricky. So much of it depends on your relationship with your manager, timing – both in terms of what’s happening at the company and their rules about promotions and workplace politics. There are many factors out of our control and that’s really frustrating.
The most important thing you have to keep in mind is why you want this promotion. People tend to focus on title and salary when it comes to work. The problem is a fancy title is great at a cocktail party but it’s not going to make you feel like you’re fulfilled in your life. A higher salary is always great but the extra money isn’t going to make up for having to perform tasks you hate performing every day. Money doesn’t = happiness.
Should I Start a Side Hustle?
Here are some journal prompts to help you choose a side hustle.Side hustles provide a tremendous amount of value in very different ways. Housing costs have gone up 100% since the 1970s while wages have only increased by 67%, this means more and more people have to have side hustles in today’s world. Side hustles can be a great way to supplement your income and help you pay off student loans or credit card debit. Side hustles can also give you the money you need not to have to use credit cards for vacations, emergencies and everyday expenses.
There is another reason side hustles are so valuable, they also provide you a way to test out other career paths. Figuring out what you want to do with your life career-wise can be a long process and the best way to know if something is right for you is by taking action. A side hustle allows you to see if a particular career path is right for you without having to quit your current job while also making a little money.
How Do I Start Advocating For Myself at Work?
Here are some journal prompts to help you find your voice at work when you feel overlooked. Speaking up/sharing ideas – Journal prompts to help you find your voice at work when you feel overlooked
Advocating for yourself is believing your wants and needs are worth fighting for. It’s hard to
advocate for yourself if you don’t believe you deserve the things you’re asking for. We all have limiting beliefs we picked up in childhood. Most of them are false and are rooted in fear.
Advocating for yourself means you don’t mentally beat yourself up all the time, it means you practice self-compassion and you value yourself.
Advocating for yourself can look like talking about your accomplishments, standing up for yourself in meetings, saying “no” when you’re overwhelmed by too many projects and it also looks like taking control of your career. Stop waiting for your boss to give you a raise or promotion, figure out what you need to do to become successful and start doing it!
For Parents
Bundle and save with a set of two parenting worksheets:
How do I launch or relaunch my adult child?
Here are some journal prompts to help you navigate launching or re-launching an adult child who lives with you. More and more young adults are living at home and staying longer than the parent or the child expected. This is because according to a 2023 Consumer Report, home prices have gone up 100% since the 1970s while wages have only gone up by “67%.” Young people are having a really hard time launching into adulthood because of the housing/wage gap, the pandemic and the vast number of choices of career.
As a parent myself I know how hard it is to let go and trust that my kid will find his way in life. When you have a child living at home it can be a delicate balance between being hands-off and stepping in and helping them. You’re the expert of your child so you want to think about what has helped them in the past to be more engaged, motivated and inspired? That’s your key to guiding them through this process.
While it’s important for your child to do the heavy lifting i.e. find a job, save money, find an apartment, etc. you also need to think about what will work for you and the other people still living in your house. Once you know what you want, you can then set some expectations for your kid.
Am I the Problem?
Here are some journal prompts to help you stop blaming yourself because your young adult child having a hard time becoming independent. If you’re a parent of a young adult today you may be asking yourself this question, “What did I do wrong?” or you may be thinking, “What’s wrong with my kid?” I’ll give you the same answer for both questions – nothing. You did nothing wrong, you’re not the problem and there is nothing wrong with your kid.
We’re at a very strange time in our history. In 1950 the average American had a 90% chance of out-earning their parents, today it’s about 50%. The “American Dream” looks very different today. While you may have left your parents house at age 18 and never look back, that’s not realistic in today’s world.
The process of launching a young person into the world today looks very different than it did 30 years ago which means you have to reset your expectations for your child. This doesn’t mean your child is going to be living with you forever. It also doesn’t mean that while your adult child is still living with you they can act like a toddler again.
