Publisher's Synopsis
This newly updated and extended version of Step Into Your Power, filled with insights, stories, and activities, teaches you how to discover your own inner strength and mental resilience, and to learn how to harness your own power.
You've heard about heroes and read about the greats, but maybe you're not feeling so great yourself right now? Learn from the lived experience of author Jamia Wilson and illustrator Andrea Pippins as they mentor you through growing up in the modern world, and teach you how to Step into Your Power. In this friendly guide, learn how to look after yourself, "organize, don't agonize,"make good choices, get out of ruts, branch out, shake up your mindset, and ask for help. How do you overcome a setback? How do you cope when you or a family member gets sick? How do you change your mindset when you can't change your situation? Step into My Power offers advice and tools to help you face these challenges. Divided by into the topics of Power, Community, Choices, Act!, Self-Care, and a new section on Dealing With Difficult Times, this empowering reference includes self-care advice and activities on every page that you can take and make your very own. Take this time to explore what it means to know and trust your insights and capabilities with stories, images, activities, resources, and action prompts that you can interact with on your own time and, most importantly, on your terms. A warm and friendly growing-up guide, this book is crucial for the time we are living in right now.
