Project You More Than 50 Ways To Calm Down Destress and Feel Great by Aubre Andrus

160 Pages
Publisher: Capstone, Switch Press
Release Date: September 1, 2017

Nonfiction, Health, Mind, Body, Spirit, Yoga, Teens, Young Adult

What a great little book. There are tips for meditation, mindfulness, and wellness. I love the tips for a staycation, visualization, and massage. This is definitely a book I will be refer to many times when I want to feel good about myself. The colors, drawings, and photos are very relaxing. Although this book is listed for teens and young adults, I recommend it to everyone. There are techniques that would benefit anyone.

This was a great read and can be helpful in your inner growth toward a better life with a wise and mature approach. It takes a lot of self-awareness and introspection into yourself and help you organize and calm your life and mind.

This is a wonderfully helpful book. It's filled with simple yoga poses, schedule tips, and how to help with stress. I feel like it would be a great resource for the teen in your life.

This is a very good book, helps with self care and just making yourself a calmer person. I really liked it because it gets rid of stress well.

A great little book that is filled with stress-less tips for teens. Perfectly designed with teen girls in mind (but equally relevant to teen boys) . Working with girls, I loved the inclusion of 'Speaking Up'.

This bright book will shed light on how to not be so stressed. I loved the bright colors, the helpful hints/tips/lots of projects to do. My beef with this book is that it focuses its messages on girls, rather than all teens. It doesn't really offer you anything you can't find on the internet and I wish it had a section that explained that sometimes, it's okay to just be stressed, too. I mean, as someone with an anxiety issue, being positive and focusing on things outside myself is very helpful -- and this book excels there -- but sometimes there's too much of a push to just be positive and get over it, rather than working through how you're feeling...and allowing oneself to feel negative feelings at all. Other than that, I'd still recommend this book for younger teens (middle school). I do think it's a charming book that would most benefit that age category.

Find your balance. Make a protein-packed smoothie to energize for a busy day. Center yourself after a stressful week by taking five minutes to write in your journal. I really enjoyed this one. It's not the kind of book that you can read in one sitting so it took me a lot longer.

This is a wonderfully helpful book. It's filled with simple yoga poses, schedule tips, and how to help with stress. Not only is this book filled with many great tips, not just for teens but for anyone, it's fun and looked amazing. It's colorful and the designs are cool. If you need a little boost or looking for something that's filled with tips than this is a book you must get!

Must say I'm generally not into Self-Help/Self-Care books but this is a must read, especially for teens/adults. I'm an advocate for "reclaiming your time", and so is this book. There is an entire section on "Speaking Up", young adults need to know it's okay to stand up for yourself. I would recommend this book to anyone, some people don't have "feel good" playlists! I also love how this book is directed at teen girls, during that middle school/high school age, we need direction on how to help them, this book will help. But as an adult, I can see myself using some of the techniques provided within the book.

Thanks to NetGalley and Capstone for the opportunity to read and review Project You by Aubre Andrus! Just reading the Table of Contents made me feel relaxed and helped me look forward to reading the book. Full of de-stressing activities to help you take care of yourself and feel at peace. Self-care and self-help tips for almost every stressor plus feng shui principles, calming recipes and activities as well as energizing and replenishing tips are found in this book, along with happy music lists categorized by decade, ideas for starting a new hobby and the importance of laughing, ideas about a gratitude journal and a worry box and a cupcake for one recipe for a single serve treat. The book also has a section that explains the benefits of exercise and sunlight and sections for ideas for 30-day challenges to tackle goals, nature journals, inspiring songs list to energize, challenging yourself to build confidence and recipes and ideas for pampering yourself. Project You gives the reader help and resources for a variety of reasons. I am buying this book for the school library. 5 stars!
*I received a complimentary arc of this book for voluntary consideration.

PROJECT YOU by Aubre Andrus will be available in our library in September. This book will likely be high interest, particularly for girls in middle school and early high school. Andrus divides the book into two major sections: Take Control and Find Your Balance. Within each, are multiple chapters with titles like "Head Outdoors", "Exude Confidence," "Create a Time Budget" and "Speak Up." There is a section on breathing and meditation, and several visualization exercises. I liked the conversational tone of the book, famous quote selections, and the many suggestions for action like simplifying your wardrobe or choosing joy through creating reminders of happy moments on slips of paper. There are tasks for creating a gratitude journal, sending a card of thanks, or establishing a vision board. Most of this is probably not really new to readers, but having it together in a concise format helps; there are even playlists of "feel good" and "pump up" songs, plus a very practical list with websites and phone numbers of where to go for help. One issue, though is the almost exclusive focus on girls (as reinforced by images, color schemes and choice of font). We know boys feel stress, too, and I wish this potentially helpful book also provided them with "More Than 50 Ways to Calm down, De-Stress, and Feel Great."

You are worth it! Take care of yourself with helpful tips from this amazing book! A must read for all.

This was very eye opening, It was a great read.
I am already trying to incorporate some if the tips in to my own life.
It is a book I would suggest to friends.
It was kind of boring but it was easy to skip around and read what you wanted.

Very helpful. Written in an easy to understand and enjoyable format. Interesting and workable ideas.

This book would be great for any teen. It has helpful information on how to destroys and take time for one's self. It is non-judgmental and offers a variety of techniques for both males and females. This would be a great asset to any teen to increase their personal awareness and understanding of how to spend time on themselves.

A great little self-help book aimed towards the younger crowd (14-18) full of activities, exercises, advice, prompts, crafts, playlists, and recipes that will help you relax and rejuvenate. It's laid out with fun colorful graphics, images, and fonts that make it visually pleasing as well as enjoyable to read.

I enjoyed this one a lot. Yes, this is geared more towards teenagers, but there was still a lot of good info that as an adult I can work into my everyday life. So don't let the age thing deter you from giving this one a look see.

I got hook right the minute I saw the cover on NetGalley and I'm instantly requested it and yes, it is superbly wonderful! The contents in it are so beautiful, very eye-catching, the illustration is on point and the most important is, it does the job to lift up my spirit, motivate me. I totally love it.

This was so calming and soothing that I fell asleep.

Excellent.
If I had tons of money I would purchase multiple copies for lots of elementary students in my school and share its suggestions.
Packed with a variety of suggestions focusing on teens ( but not limited to) there are numerous suggestions to help the reader to destress. The illustrations allow the reader to clearly follow each yoga pose.
I'm a senior and I found this book very helpful!

Obviously I am not 9-13 (I'm 22), but I have an awful time dealing with all three items in the title. Calming down, de-stressing, and feeling great. If I would have had a book like this when I was that age, it would have helped SO MUCH through out middle and high school and into adulthood. I really liked it. It was fun and easy.

For Parents: Even if you don't think your kid has problems with any of these things, get them. Because one day they will. Whether it is in middle school, high school, college, or being an adult. It would be excellent for young kids (Male and Female) to learn little techniques to "declutter the soul."