It’s Up to You

It’s difficult to be a girl in 2025…

You’re living in two demanding worlds: the real world and the online world. The pressure can build quickly between dealing with school, activities, sports, and even your home life. Never mind the complexity of relationships—both friendships and romantic ones. Or being influenced or bullied by people online.

Beneath that pressure, you have dreams and hopes for your future. You’re on a journey to become a secure, confident woman willing to work for a meaningful life. Many of the choices you make during this time of your life will affect you for years to come, both in positive and difficult ways.

Here, you’ll find facts and tools to empower you to make good choices, including choosing who you surround yourself with, how you think about yourself and your body, whether you should send a nude, and deciding when to start having sex. These choices can all have a major impact on your life. 

Your journey to a successful, fulfilled, and purposeful life begins with making the commitment to learn how to choose the right things. Sometimes you might make mistakes, but every day you get the opportunity for a new beginning.

You get to decide. Life is what you make of it. Live with purpose.

Dating and relationships can be overwhelming and
all-consuming in our minds. 

We spend so much time, so much mental and emotional energy asking ourselves: 

• Who am I going to be with? 

• How will this person fulfill me? 

• How good can I look while doing it?

But we should really focus on these questions: 

• Who do I want to be?

• What am I living for?

• Who am I living for?

Figuring out relationships starts with figuring yourself out. People want to have real relationships with the real you. You need to know who the real you is so that you can form those authentic relationships you desire.

• Focus on finding out who you are and grow in your relationship with yourself. 

• What are the characteristics you want in an ideal
future spouse? An ideal friend? Strive to develop those
characteristics in yourself, and you’ll attract
that type of person.