Your teenage years are bound to be a roller coaster of emotions.
After all, you're going through a million different changes – physically, mentally, and socially, too.
Starting with your body, you'll experience rapid growth in height, weight gain, and changes in your voice, skin, and body shape. You might be getting pimples; you might have trouble sleeping. And some of this strange, uncontrollable newness can come on so fast; it's as if these changes happened almost overnight.
Of course, the changes in your body chemistry will also affect your emotions. Take a deep breath if you're feeling more emotional or like your impulses have become harder to understand or control. All of that is normal. That's because your growing body is still unused to dealing with the influx of new hormones it's suddenly making. For a while, you may be struggling with self-esteem, your sense of self, finding confidence, and your identity. But remember: everyone on Earth has either been there before or is about to go through it.
This wild ride of physical and emotional shifts only means that this is the most important time for teens to have space, get enough sleep, eat for their bodies, and learn how to pause. Focus. Breathe. Analyze, process, and meditate. But you may find that along with the changes nature will bring you, society still has a lot left waiting in the wings.
Competitive sports. The pressure of academics. Social relationships, new and evolving. Thinking about dating, making new friends, learning new skills, finding new interests. You'll be navigating environments that are suddenly giving you new choices and responsibilities and changing your routine. New subjects in school. Much harder tests. Learning how to drive. Applying to college. Chores that you're suddenly old enough to do, even if you were never expected to before. Your first job. Your first kiss. Disagreeing with your parents, and learning that they are still learning, too.
With pressure from all sides on top of growing pains, now more than ever, it's important for you to learn how to apply mindfulness to survive your teen years.
If you're looking for guidance on how to navigate the unknown, let Mindfulness For Teens lend a helping hand.
Written by Emma J. Benson, this friendly guide is the natural sequel to the first two installments of her Mindfulness trilogy. It follows "Unlocking Mindfulness: A Complete Guide To The Art of Mindfulness" and "The Mindful Parenting Handbook: Understanding Emotions & Learning To Listen." Last but by no means least, this final book is aimed at teens and young adults who may have the most to gain from learning self-care and how to live in the present.
This handy workbook is condensed into 8 chapters, from Why You Should Read This Book to how to Start Doing Nothing. The author aims to dismantle many misconceptions that projection, guilt, shame, and pressure can sometimes add to the existing stress of just growing up.
Between the pages, you'll find focus techniques, fun and practical thinking tools, worksheets, gratitude guides, acronyms, and helpful tips on how to balance physical and emotional health – all from the sympathetic perspective of an older sister who's been through it once before.
This mindfulness book will teach you when it's time to zone in or hit pause, step back, and rein in your feelings. To see them for what they are: beautiful, valid, and valuable.
Still not convinced? Here are more reasons to buy yourself a copy of this guide:
