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From hormones to homework, parents to peers, health issues to bad habits, life can be a pressure cooker. How can we find relief?
Author Whitney Stewart introduces readers to the practice of mindfulness. With its roots in ancient Buddhist teachings, mindfulness—the practice of purposefully focusing attention on the present moment—can change a person's approach to stress, develop skills to handle anxiety and depression,
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The demands of school, sports, exams, and relationships can be so stressful. This toolkit of simple mindfulness techniques can help! Designed to be used any time you are stressed or upset—or need to boost your energy and confidence—these short practices can help you feel calmer, happier, more focused, and more able to get the most out of life.
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FPPL 2024 March Get Crafty! Book List
Green Hills All Staff Favorites
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Let's Get Crafty (National Craft Month) (WPL-ADULT)
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Let's Get Crafty (National Craft Month) (WPL-ADULT)
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Craft Your Own Happy is a collection of mindful craft projects to make you smile! Perfect for those moments when you need a bit of self-care and relaxation time.
4) Enlighten me
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2024 AAPINH Heritage Month Children's Selections
National Book Awards & Readalikes 2023
September Buzzworthy Books Kids
National Book Awards & Readalikes 2023
September Buzzworthy Books Kids
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Binh and his family take a trip to a silent meditation retreat, where he learns a lot about himself and how to manage his feelings through Buddhist teachings.
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In this powerful book, a pediatrician specializing in teen and adolescent medicine offers a breakthrough mindfulness program to help you deal with stress in healthy ways, improve communication, and reduce conflicts with family and friends.
Being a teen is stressful! Whether it's school, friends, or dating, the teen years are full of difficult changes—both mentally and physically. If you're like many
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In a time when crossing guards are posted to prevent high schoolers from jumping in front of trains and parents shelling out $100K for packaged college applications, education has become a mad race to grab the Ivy ring. Based on experience in admissions with the Ivy League and other highly competitive universities, emerging scientific evidence on the impact of emotional intelligence and mindfulness, and discussions with admissions officers, students,...
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"Call it altering consciousness, call it getting high, or call it mindfulness. Humans are hardwired to seek ways to transcend the limits of everyday awareness, whether it's the little kid spinning in circles to get dizzy or a runner experiencing the day's first rush of dopamine. And you don't need drugs--as Edward Rosenfeld shows, the "high" is inside, and there are literally hundreds of perfectly natural ways that we can use to find it. An encyclopedic...
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"This lively, hands-on guide to meditation, mindfulness, and yoga is a perfect introduction for tweens and teens. Don't just do something, be here. The key to happiness is being able to find comfort in this moment, here and now. When you are completely present and not distracted by regrets, worries, and plans, even for a little while, you begin to feel more confident and can deal more easily with everything you experience. This is mindfulness: paying...
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It's OK to slow down. Take a pause and focus on your breath. Let the other animals run around, you do you.
Follow a serene and smiley sloth through a series of light meditations and daily reflections with this unexpected and snuggable guide. From simple breathing exercises and guided visualizations to the benefits of chewing your leaves slowly and staying present while hanging from a tree, this little illustrated book of mindfulness will help readers...
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"More than ever, teens are feeling the stress of academic pressure; high expectations from family, friends, and social media; and an increasingly uncertain future. In The Mindful Breathing Workbook for Teens, teen readers dealing with painful emotions and overwhelm will learn breathing skills rooted in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), so they can stay grounded, find calm, and shift out of bad moods quickly"--
15) Stuff that sucks: a teen's guide to accepting what you can't change and committing to what you can
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"Sometimes everything sucks. This unique, illustrated guide will help you move past negative thoughts and feelings and discover what truly matters to you. If you struggle with negative thoughts and emotions, you should know that your pain is real. No one should try to diminish it. Sometimes stuff really does suck and we have to acknowledge it. Worry, sadness, loneliness, anger, and shame are big and important, but they can also get in the way of what...
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"Attention deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD) and self-compassion experts Mark Bertin and Karen Bluth bring teens powerful skills for overcoming self-criticism and building the executive functioning skills they need to become more confident, resilient, and independent. The book includes mindfulness tools to help teens accept the limitations of ADHD, and self-compassion strategies to help them stop beating themselves up and comparing themselves to their...
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"Outlines daily practices that promote physical, mental, and emotional health for young people making the transition to adulthood. The author covers practices such as journaling, exercise, healthy sleep habits, time management, and mindfulness, with brief discussions of scientific research showing the proven benefits of each practice"--
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"For teens with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), it's easy to get caught up in a spiral of loud thoughts. From the author of the highly successful teen self-help guide Stuff That Sucks, comes Stuff That's Loud-a fun and unique book filled with engaging illustrations to help teens break free from the intrusive thoughts and behaviors that accompany OCD. With this guide, teens will find validation and support, learn mindfulness tips to "unspiral"...