The Trauma and Adversity Workbook for Teens

Mindfulness-Based Skills to Overcome and Recover from Prolonged Toxic Stress

by Breanna Chambers; Gina M Biegel; Stacie Cooper

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Pub Date Jul 27 2023 | Archive Date Jun 01 2023

New Harbinger Publications, Inc. | New Harbinger

Self-Help | Teens & YA

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Description

Do you often feel sad, anxious, angry, or upset and don't really know why? Do you no longer enjoy the things you used to enjoy, or feel like the world is a bad place? If you've experienced extreme stress or trauma-such as abuse, neglect, a family member's illness, or living through a natural disaster-you may need help healing and moving forward in your life. It's important to know that you are not alone, and there is nothing to be ashamed of. Most importantly, there are ways to feel better.

Written by an expert in teen mental health, this healing workbook offers powerful skills to help you overcome the effects of toxic stress, trauma, and adversity using mindfulness, neuroplasticity, and emotion regulation. You'll learn all about how your mind and body respond to stress, how to identify triggers, and how to ground and calm yourself in the moment when your emotions feel too big to handle.

If you're struggling with the effects of stress or trauma, you should know that you can move forward in your life with confidence, self-compassion, and resilience. This workbook will help you, every step of the way.

Do you often feel sad, anxious, angry, or upset and don't really know why? Do you no longer enjoy the things you used to enjoy, or feel like the world is a bad place? If you've experienced extreme...

Advance Praise

“Gina Biegel is one of the world’s leading experts on helping teenagers manage stress and grow resilient well-being. In this wonderful book, she offers a super-practical tool kit along with her personal stories and tremendously caring and nurturing heart. Highly recommended!”
—Rick Hanson, PhD, author of Making Great Relationships

“Gina Biegel and Stacie Cooper have created a wise, caring, and helpful guide for any teen who has experienced significant adversity in their lives. Filled with clear explanations of cutting-edge ways of understanding trauma and the threat states of mind it can create, this important book helps the adolescent reader to identify overwhelming experiences that have stressed their ability to cope well, and the persistent shadows that cast darkness in daily life. Clear steps to noting understandable but now unhelpful ways of dealing with these adversities are then followed by practical tools to build life-affirming skills of thriving. Hope and healing are just moments away in this fabulous manual to move from struggling with trauma to living freely and fully with strength and joy.”
—Daniel J. Siegel, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Brainstorm and IntraConnected, clinical professor at UCLA School of Medicine, and executive director of Mindsight Institute