“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