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I would, but my DAMN MIND won’t let me: a teen girl’s guide to understanding and controlling her thoughts and feelings (Words of Wisdom for Teens) (Volume 2)

Our journey to happiness begins with a belief that happiness is possible. But for many, experiences have shown them that life is unfair and change is difficult… What if there was a way to create permanent changes quickly and easily? In “I would, but my DAMN MIND won’t let me” author Jacqui Letran, Nurse Practitioner and Adolescent Self-Empowerment Specialist, shows teen girls how to take charge of their mind to overcome obstacles and struggles. In this groundbreaking guide, girls can learn simple yet powerful techniques to challenge their old negative patterns and unleash the power of their mind to create the life they want and deserve.

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Inspiration for Teens

While I discuss the trials and tribulations, I inspire teens like you with words of wisdom in relative terms. With this book, I want to create a wide range of ways teenagers like me can be motivated and inspire other teenagers to overcome the different obstacles and situations in their lives. In this book, I discuss important real-life problems like peer pressure, physical bullying, and more that can be solved through true inspiration. With this book, I hope to make a difference, and with readings like this, it is only the beginning.

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You Grow Girl!: A Self-empowering Workbook for Tweens and Teens

You Grow Girl! is a balanced, integrated workbook addressing all the core issues most girls 9-16 struggle with every day. It helps them see and utilize the connection between their self esteem, thought patterns, eating habits, and overall health-to establish a balanced, integrated perspective that fosters good habits to serve for a lifetime. Interactive sections on weight/size/food issues, coping with stress, culture and peer pressures, deceptive media/Internet images, exercise, and mindfulness.

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Dream Builders: Affirmations for Children and Teens (Volume 1)

Positive affirmations for children and teens can do a lot to assist them in developing healthy self-esteem. Affirmations can help instill good values, confidence, focus and belief. Affirmations create positive attitudes, and enable children and teens to meet new challenges and achieve desired goals. Dream Builders: Affirmations for Children and Teens is the perfect addition for any library for parent and child to read together. The Affirmations in this book will change your life for the better with daily use.

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What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens

Why do some people accomplish so much more than others? It’s not because they’re smarter or more talented. It’s because they know how to set and reach goals. Research shows that effective goal setters have less stress and anxiety, concentrate better, and are more satisfied with their lives. For teens, goal setting is linked to improved school performance, motivation, self-confidence, and self-esteem. What Do You Really Want? is a step-by-step guide to goal setting, written especially for teens.

Each chapter includes fun, creative exercises, practical tips, words of wisdom from famous “goal-getters,” real-life examples from teens, and success stories. Readers learn how to articulate their goals and put them in writing (a key to success), set priorities and deadlines, overcome obstacles, cope with roadblocks, build a support system, use positive self-talk, celebrate their successes, and more.

Upbeat and inspiring, this book is a must for all teens. It’s also recommended for parents, teachers, youth workers, counselors, and other caring adults.
 

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Truth for Our Youth: A Self-Empowerment Book for Teens

Many so-called experts have counted this generation of teens out. They believe yours is a lost and hopeless generation. Opportunities to join gangs, sell drugs, waste time and talent and make other crippling decisions are all around you. No, it is not easy being a teenager in America today. You want to be independent, yet you feel confined by your parents’ rules. You attend school but have no idea how this will really help you later in life. Friends, dating, earning money, and choosing a future career may be important to you right now, but you don’t know where to begin. Here’s the good news: You are about to learn simple yet powerful ideas that will teach you how to take control of your life regardless of what your circumstances are. You can make it around all the traps and live a successful life if you have the right blueprint. This book provides such a blueprint. If you understand and apply the principles and strategies I outline, you are virtually guaranteed to gain respect, success, and power in all the right ways. If you take this information seriously, it can help you make sense of yourself and the world around you. This book will teach you: -The importance of loving yourself -How to develop self-confidence -How to prepare yourself right now for the future -How to make good decisions -How to choose friends -How to manage your time -The importance of aiming for excellence -How to avoid major traps in life To encourage cooperation between you and your parents, this book contains two parts. Part I has ten chapters for you. Part II has five chapters designed to arm your parents with information to help you reach your highest potential.

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Empowering Teens to Build Self-Esteem

An easy-to-read, practical self-help book for adolescents. It is a simple guide helping youth learn to become their own best friend, override negative self-talk, and have a belief system that encourages personal responsibility. Great for parents, teachers, and counselors. Topics include: easy ways to identify thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of low self-esteem, 8 principles of self-esteem, 40 affirmations, teen self-esteem awareness indicator, dating tips, and journal questions for peer pressure.

“This book taught me what I did not know about myself. I learned that I’m going to be okay no matter what, that on one can take away what you have inside of you. I also learned there are different parts of me inside that have different feelings. I recommend this book to other teenagers because it explains things we were never taught. It takes over where everyone else leaves off.”
Christine Snitzer, age 18

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The ADHD Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Gain Motivation and Confidence (Instant Help Book for Teens)

Focus on Your Strengths and Overcome ADHD

Symptoms of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, can strike at any time-during class, when you’re listening to a friend’s story, while doing homework, and did we mention during class? You might find it difficult to pay attention and sit still when your impulses are constantly tempting you to do the opposite. In The ADHD Workbook for Teens, you’ll learn simple skills you can use to confidently handle school, make and keep friends, and organize and finish every project you start.

This workbook helps you find out who you really are through a series of exercises and worksheets that focus on identifying your strengths and interests. Then, you’ll begin using those strengths to create strategies for overcoming the ADHD-related issues you struggle with.

Learn how to calm yourself down when you feel hyperactive or impulsive Develop plans for meeting the goals that matter to you most Get your life under control and organize your schedule Improve your social life by becoming a better listener and friend

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christian Teen Talk: Christian Teens Share Their Stories of Support, Inspiration and Growing Up

This book contains 101 heartfelt, true stories about love, compassion, loss, forgiveness, friends, school, and faith.  It also covers tough issues such as self-destructive behavior, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, and divorce.

Christian teens care very much about their connection and relationship with God, but they are also experiencing all the ups and downs of teenage life, with the attendant joys and sorrows of growing up.  This book, filled with 101 stories written by Christian teens for Christian teens, helps teens who care about their faith navigate their teenage years.  

This title provides support and inspiration for Christian teens with heartfelt true stories about love, compassion, loss, forgiveness, friends, school, and faith.  It also covers tough issues such as self-destructive behavior, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, and divorce.

The first Chicken Soup for the Soul book was published in 1993, and became a publishing industry sensation, ultimately selling eight million copies.  Since then, more than 150 Chicken Soup titles have been published, selling more than 100 million copies.

Chicken Soup for the Soul has won dozens of awards over the past 15 years, and its founders, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen have become celebrity motivational speakers and authors.