There are so many great features of this book including the beautiful and descriptive illustrations and the exercises that provide step-by-step guidance for young people on a wide range of challenges. The layout of the book is also very helpful in working with teens, with each chapter covering a particular topic.

As an HPE teacher, I felt this book has the potential to help students. I can see recommending it to teens and hoping they would read it. Some of the language etc. make it probably not appropriate to adopt as a class text, however, I think it has a lot of good solid advice for teens who are struggling learn to cope. It provides some good tips and advice that kids could easily adopt. It also provided some great research and stories of experiments that I would love to share with students because I found them super interesting and think they would too.

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

This is a fantastic book for teenagers to help them through puberty and all the emotions they may have and feel especially in the modern world of today with all the stresses, strains and pressures surrounding them.
This book talks about dealing with emotions, rage, anger, hurt, frustrations, friendships and more and the tasks spotted through the book help teens to build up their understanding of said emotions and feelings as well as build up their resilience and work on coping mechanisms.
I wish I'd had a book like this available to me when I was a teen.

I'm not sure how much of the content here is original, but I found a lot of it interesting and could see how it might help a struggling young person cope. However, I wasn't able to make out the illustrations on my Kindle version and there were many typos but of course it's clearly labeled "uncorrected proof". I liked the notion of an Overthinking Habit, and made notes on much additional good advice also: pick a worry session three hours prior to bedtime so it doesn't interfere with sleep, a life without mistakes is a life without learning, every habit consists of three things: a cue, a routine, and an outcome, limit screentime with an app, stop using social media after 30 minutes or don't get on it before breakfast, after school or when you're in bed. "There is no high without low; we will be unhappy sometimes" is very good advice. The B.F. Skinner experiment relating to cell phone addiction was super enlightening.

It pains me to read "Drink too much or do drugs" listed as a coping mechanism but I guess that's reality; but then to read "it's like shaking up a bottle of Champagne: eventually the cork will explode" a little further along struck me as not quite the appropriate analogy. There really was no offensive language except within a single paragraph: You're a piece of shit, a loser...if only they knew what you felt, then they would just shut the fuck up and leave you in bed, in peace. The lack of expletives in the rest of the book really made this particular paragraph stick out to me. And finally, I liked reading about one of the author's personal experiences, but then wondered why he was the only contributor, why didn't I get to hear about co-author background stories also?