Discover Your Power
A Handbook for Kids, 10-18, and Young Adults
Who Don't Feel Good About Themveles
A Handbook for Kids, 10-18, and Young Adults
Who Don't Feel Good About Themveles
There is an epidemic in this country of kids and young adults not feeling good about themselves. They feel insecure, anxious, down, and have lots of negative feelings about themselves; many feel persistently sad or hopeless Is this you?
This is not a child's or your natural state. When a child is born, he or she is filled with light and joy; that is his natural state. Look at almost any toddler and that's what you'll see beaming at you.
What happens to that joy? Children lose that joy because of their experiences in life, all the negative stuff that they encounter. Those negative feelings all come from the outside. The child is innocent; he or she is not at fault.
But this negative view of themselves is all most children have ever known. They have absorbed as fact the labels that have been applied to them by family, peers, and the broader culture. Even if they've been told they're special, they are filled with insecurity and so are fearful and suffer.
You can't avoid negative experiences, but you can avoid what they do to you. The purpose of this book/course is to help you, the reader, see yourself not as a collection of the negative (or positive) traits that you've been labeled with by others and yes, even yourself, but to return home to your natural state, which is your heart, and so be free of your wounds. And so discover your power.
I wrote this book because, having taught elementary and middle school children for many years, I have seen first hand their insecurity and anxiety. I myself suffered as a child and adult. My teaching is formed by my understanding of the mind, happiness, and our culture that has developed while walking the path of Zen Buddhism for more than 30 years.
The book is available in both softcover - $12.95, and eBook - $9.99 formats.
Praise for Raising a Happy Child:
"As a clinician I will be recommending this book to all my parents."
Lynn Casella, MSW Middle School Clinician
