Parenting Series 2024-2025: “Taking a COACH Approach to Parenting”

The Parenting Series is an Office for Women’s Careers initiative focused on well-being and work-life balance for MGH faculty and trainee parents.

This talk will provide you with some basic coaching skills that you can use when parenting. Dr. Frates has been coaching since 2008 and has two grown children 23 and 25. With her lifestyle medicine expertise and her health and wellness coaching strategies, Dr. Frates will try to relieve some of the stress of parenting and bring out the joy of parenting.

Speaker:
Beth Frates, MD, FACLM, DipABLM, is a trained physiatrist and a health and wellness coach, with expertise in Lifestyle Medicine. She is an Associate Professor at HMS and has created and implemented a 12-Step wellness program, PAVING the Path to Wellness™ for patients and providers. As of the fall of 2020, Dr. Frates serves as the Director of Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness for the Department of Surgery at Mass General Hospital. In addition, Dr. Frates has her own Lifestyle Medicine consulting/coaching practice where she sees patients 1:1 and in groups.