About Tina Puri — ThinkRoot Young Leaders

Tina Puri did not set out to build a program for children. She set out to save her own life — and what she discovered along the way changed everything she believed about how human beings learn, grow, and heal.

Tina spent over two decades in software and technology before a health crisis changed the direction of her life. Fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and severe anxiety left her largely bedridden — and no conventional approach offered lasting relief. Faced with a problem that resisted every standard solution, she did what engineers do: she went to the root cause.

Over the next eight years — a study she continues to this day — she immersed herself in mind-body science and awareness practices, learning how thought patterns form, why they persist, and how they can be permanently changed. She recovered. And in doing so, she built a framework she now brings to everyone she teaches.

Her foundational principle: lasting change — whether in health, relationships, or academic performance — only becomes possible when you address the root, not just the symptoms at the surface. It is the same logic that drives good engineering. And it is the lens through which she teaches children to understand their own minds.

The AAA Method

At the heart of Tina's teaching is a simple, science-backed framework she brings to every session — grounded in what neuroscience calls neuroplasticity: the brain's proven capacity to rewire itself when we consciously choose a different response. What you repeat, you reinforce.

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A record of service — and results

Tina has volunteered across school levels from kindergarten through high school, mentored in Scout programs, supported HOSA chapters, served on multiple PTAs, and founded a four-year intergenerational community program. She created stress management and gratitude programs embedded directly into a local high school — among the first of their kind on that campus.

For the past four years she has facilitated weekly wellness sessions for groups of 30 to 45 seniors, teaching awareness and self-regulation practices that participants describe as genuinely life-changing. She has worked with youth cohorts across multiple settings, applying the same awareness-based curriculum that forms the foundation of ThinkRoot.

Across years of working with young people in community and educational settings, Tina has observed consistent and meaningful shifts:

Students developed a consistent daily reflection habit — showing up with discipline and rigor that their parents and teachers noticed.

Insights and thinking matured well beyond their age — children began asking deeper questions about themselves, others, and the world around them.

Emotional balance improved noticeably — children became less reactive, more grounded, and better able to navigate difficult moments.

Students learned to connect what they experience in the world to what is happening inside them — a skill most adults never develop.

Children developed intrinsic motivation — doing the inner work because it resonated, not because it was assigned or graded.

Parents observed a shift in maturity, responsibility, and self-awareness that went beyond what any academic program had produced.

These are the shifts ThinkRoot Young Leaders is designed to produce — in a structured, six-week format built for children ages 8–14.

Those who have worked with Tina — students, parents, and adult participants alike — consistently describe her as a teacher who goes far beyond what is expected: present, precise, and genuinely invested in each person she works with.

What parents are saying

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Why this program, and why now

The skills ThinkRoot teaches — self-awareness, thought pattern recognition, emotional regulation, inner discipline — are the foundation of every kind of excellence: academic, social, and personal. They determine whether a child can perform under pressure, recover from setbacks, build relationships that sustain them, and pursue the kind of higher education and meaningful career that reflects their true capability.

These skills are almost entirely absent from formal education. Tina knows firsthand what it costs to spend decades without them. She also knows — from her own recovery, from years of work with seniors, and from every child she has taught — what becomes possible when you learn them.

ThinkRoot Young Leaders exists because she believes these are not enrichment skills. They are foundational ones. And the earlier a child builds this foundation, the more of their life they get to live from a place of clarity, confidence, and self-mastery.

ThinkRoot Young Leaders is educational in nature and is not a substitute for professional mental health support.