Carolyn “Coach Lynn” Wabrek, MEd, MFT, MPH
Meet Coach Lynn
A mental conditioning coach. She has spent her career learning how people think under pressure and how to help them do what they need to do.
What she does
Mental conditioning
Physical conditioning builds strength through regular training. Mental conditioning works the same way: you practice until the right response becomes reliable, even under distraction, uncertainty, and the pressure of the voice in your head.
Coach Lynn gives you a short tip and a quick breathing drill to quiet it. Her point is simple: composure isn’t something you’re born with. It’s a skill you can train.
The aim is to notice the voice and still act. And it’s short-term work: practical tools you train, not months in a therapist’s office.
- Pressure and self-doubtManaging nerves when it counts
- FocusPutting attention on the next useful action
- RecoveryBouncing back after mistakes, setbacks, or criticism
- Self-talkTurning unhelpful thoughts into practical responses
Where it started
An early adopter
Coach Lynn was an early adopter of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, training at the University of Pennsylvania before most clinicians knew about it. She introduced CBT to Connecticut and started using it at Hartford Hospital, well before it became widely accepted.
Later, she moved into public health, focusing on anxiety and the daily struggles people face in their minds before anyone else notices. Most of those people never sit in a therapist’s office. Public health opened the door to everyone: prevention and self-care, not only treatment.
That thinking shaped Daily Composure. It’s a public health resource, a first aid kit for the mind. It turns credible research into practical tools anyone can use, especially young people learning to quiet the voice in their heads. It’s education, not medical care. Your ability to stay steady also depends on the conditions you live and work in, and some struggles need a professional. Daily Composure helps you tell the difference.
- Early adopterTrains in CBTUniversity of Pennsylvania
- ConnecticutIntroduces CBTHartford Hospital
- Public healthFocuses on anxietyPrevention and self-care for everyone
Background
Credentials
She has a Master’s in Education from the University of Hartford, CBT graduate training at the University of Pennsylvania, graduate training in family psychotherapy, and a Master of Public Health from UConn School of Medicine. One question has guided her work:
How do you get your mind to work for you, not against you?
- Master’s in EducationUniversity of Hartford
- University of PennsylvaniaCBT graduate training
- Family psychotherapyGraduate training
- Master of Public HealthUConn School of Medicine
The philosophy
Why Daily Composure?
Your brain is designed to keep you safe and comfortable, so it resists as soon as you set a meaningful goal. That resistance isn’t the truth. It’s just the voice that holds you back.
As a mental conditioning coach, Coach Lynn teaches people to do three things.
- Step 1Identify the voice.Recognize it when it speaks up.
- Step 2Sort the self-talk.Name it and put it in its category.
- Step 3 · Every hour, every dayTurn the volume down.Practice every hour, every day, until the voice goes quiet.
When you turn down the volume on the voice holding you back, your self-talk turns positive, and you’ve achieved Daily Composure:
A clear head when it matters most.
It’s a win worth celebrating, and it’s the work Coach Lynn does with people every day.
Inspiration
Getting to neutral
Coach Lynn’s approach owes a great deal to Trevor Moawad, the mental conditioning coach whose teaching on getting to neutral shaped how she helps people move past the negative voice in their heads and find their neutral self.
Like Trevor, she faced cancer early in life. She survived. Trevor died at 48. She took her survival as a purpose: to keep helping others.
“If it weren’t for his writings, part of my ability to be helpful would not be here.”
Coach Lynn
Thank you, Trevor. In your honor, your voice is an integral part of Daily Composure.
Who she works with
Her goal
Her goal is simple: to share the thoughts, strategies, and behaviors people need to become their best selves.
That’s why she created Daily Composure: to help people learn the skills for composure.