Lucie Hemmen - The Teen Girls Anxiety Survival Guide

The powerful message that self-care isnt selfish sets the compassionate tone of this guide for teen girls addressing their anxieties. Hemmen provides friendly yet direct and clear guidance on how to move through the process of managing emotions and thoughts to arrive at a more desirable place. Engaging stories from older teens and young adults offer hope that anxieties can be overcome.

Mary K. Alvord, PhD , psychologist, and coauthor of Conquer Negative Thinking for Teens and Resilience Builder Program for Children and Adolescents

The Teen Girls Anxiety Survival Guide first conveys the powerful message that anxious brains are rewired through practicing daily skills. Using a lighthearted and down-to-earth approach, Hemmen then explains in simple yet profound ways how to reduce anxiety and improve overall wellness. Teen girls will naturally absorb the messages in this book through engaging with the numerous activities designed to promote self-reflection and positive self-talkhow cool is that?

Sheila Achar Josephs, PhD , psychologist, and author of Helping Your Anxious Teen

Lucie Hemmens latest book is an essential guide to help teen girls face their fears, comfort their fears, and challenge distorted thoughts that lead to false alarms. With a compassionate and caring tone, teens can access wisdom that will impact the rest of their lives. Parents will love the idea of having a resource to replace nagging with knowledge they can offer their daughters.

Lara Honos-Webb, PhD , psychologist, speaker, and author of Six Super Skills for Executive Functioning and The Gift of ADHD

Another great book for teen girls by Lucie Hemmen! In The Teen Girls Anxiety Survival Guide , Lucie translates effective information into language teenage girls can hear and make sense of. She engages her readers while simultaneously providing tips that work and appeal along with the science and research behind thema valuable combination!

Lisa M. Schab, LCSW , psychotherapist; and author of eighteen self-help books, including The Anxiety Workbook for Teens and Put Your Worries Here

The Teen Girls Anxiety Survival Guide is a youths go-to resource for overcoming anxiety and feeling more secure and confident. Lucie Hemmen does an excellent job explaining how to break down and confront anxious fears through powerful, evidence-based behavioral and self-care strategies. The Teen Girls Anxiety Survival Guide is a must-have book for any girl who wants to survive, thrive, and conquer their anxiety.

Raychelle Cassada Lohmann, PhD , counselor, educator, supervisor, clinical mental health counselor, and author of The Anger Workbook for Teens

Lucie Hemmens The Teen Girls Anxiety Survival Guide offers user-friendly, easily digestible, practical tools and techniques to assist teenage girls (and their loved ones) to move past anxiety and live their best life. This book is written in clear language that impressively balances conveying critical information while still communicating in engaging, teen-friendly language. This book will help teen girls to feel educated, empowered, and ready to face their challenges head-on. I am excited to have this great book as a resource to recommend to my clients and other therapists at my practice.

Debra A. Kissen, PhD, MHSA , CEO of Light on Anxiety CBT Treatment Center

Lucie Hemmen has created an essential guide for teen girls with anxiety. The book is packed with clear scientific explanations, practical and accessible strategies, and real-talk examples of how to manage anxiety when it arises. I will frequently recommend this book to the teen girls in my practice!

Jamie Micco, PhD, ABPP , cofounder and managing partner at The Concord Center in Concord, MA; and author of The Worry Workbook for Teens

Publishers Note

This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering psychological, financial, legal, or other professional services. If expert assistance or counseling is needed, the services of a competent professional should be sought.

In consideration of evolving American English usage standards, and reflecting a commitment to equity for all genders, they/them is used in this book to denote singular persons.

Distributed in Canada by Raincoast Books

Copyright 2021 by Lucie Hemmen

Instant Help Books

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Cover design by Amy Shoup; Acquired by Jess OBrien; Edited by Karen Schader

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hemmen, Lucie, author.

Title: The teen girls anxiety survival guide : ten ways to conquer anxiety and feel your best / [Lucie Hemmen].

Description: Oakland, CA : Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications, Inc., [2021] | Series: The instant help solutions series | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020031865 (print) | LCCN 2020031866 (ebook) | ISBN 9781684035847 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781684035854 (pdf) | ISBN 9781684035861 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Anxiety in adolescence--Juvenile literature. | Teenage girls--Psychology--Juvenile literature. | Social skills in adolescence--Juvenile literature. | Interpersonal relations in adolescence--Juvenile literature.

Classification: LCC BF724.3.A57 H36 2021 (print) | LCC BF724.3.A57 (ebook) | DDC 155.5/33--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020031865

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020031866

Contents

Introduction

No one needs to tell a teen girl how stressful life can be. Youre fully in the loop and doing the best you can to get through each day. Girls, more than boys, feel a lot of pressure from all directions, and it takes a toll. Exhaustion, frustration, and anxiety are a few of the struggles teen girls bring up most often.

Can you relate to any of the following?

• You value relationships and feel stressed when conflict or drama hits your friend group.
• You value family, yet feel torn between making parents happy and pushing them away. (You dont want to feel so annoyed, you just do.)
• You value academics, but feel stressed by the work and high expectations.
• You want to be happy, yet often feel overwhelmed by negative thoughts and feelings.
• You want to feel confident and accepted, yet often feel stressed about how pretty/hot/fit you are or by how much you fall short. (Its not that youre self-obsessed. You just want to feel okay about yourself so that you have the confidence to be who you want to be.)
• You know social media mostly makes everything feel worse, yet you want to bite the face off anyone who bugs you about it.

Whether you relate to one or all of these examples, things are about to get better. The good news about stress and anxiety is that there is so much good news. They are common and treatable. In the chapters ahead, you will learn ten tips that cover the need-to-know, along with advice from girls whove been there and strategies that work.

Because youre busy and dont need more boring reading to do, key information is presented in a fast and fun format that gives you the power you need without adding needless weight to your reading list.