The Book of Knowing

This is a fairly quick read about learning how to cope with your emotions and maybe even developing skills to control them on your favor. It is aimed at the target reader who has the most trouble dealing with feelings, in my opinion: teenagers and young adults. The writing is very fluid and the chapters are pretty short – which only adds to the intention of making teens read scientific, textbook work without getting bored. The illutrations were also beautiful and added a lot of nuance to the writing.

Just like the blurb says " a little book for big feelings," and just like that I found it easy to read and understand and what's more interesting is that I've struggled with emotions as a teen and reading through this made it easier to clarify a feeling from a fact, and that's powerful.
I also love the illustrations.
Thanks Netgalley for the eARC.

At the moment I’m dealing with anxiety and this book surely has already come in handy a couple of times. The illustrations give it a lighter feeling and not only a textbook type of book. I really liked the format of the book and the tips given,

At first I thought 193 pages was so short but I was wrong and had a huge impact from start to finish.
The way Gwendoline Smith has written about social anxiety makes it easy to understand how society and people influence your thought process. This modern age is so different from a decade ago and how more young people are having trouble distinguishing from rational thinking to irrational thoughts.
I could go on for days about this book but don't want to spoil it.
It is a good read and will give you advice on changing the way you think about yourself that most people need now a days.

The Book Of Knowing by Gwendoline Smith, a clinical psychologist from New Zealand. This book is based on the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It is a therapeutic handbook for, especially young adults in order to have control over their feelings and thoughts.

It focuses on concepts like - ABC model, Computer mind analogy, Cognitive Distortions, etc. I like how the author has given tips in the end for readers from non psychology background to help themselves in form of self therapy.

Since I am from Psychology background, majority of these things are already known by me. I liked how the book has pie charts and various other graphics in order to help understand better. The use of Record sheets in the book was really thoughtful. It's more like a workbook for the reader.

Overall it's a good book for teenagers to start and manage their thoughts and feelings. Wouldn't recommend for adults, as there are better and more advance books out there.
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Thank You to the Publisher and NetGalley for this e-copy in exchange of a honest review.

"The Book of Knowing: gives you the tools to challenge your negative thinking, especially the type of thinking that leads to full on melt downs. So if you’re someone who struggles with negative thinking on a daily basis, then this is the book for you!.