Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life for Teens: A Guide to Living an Extraordinary Life

Instant Help Book for Teens

by Joseph V. Ciarrochi, Louise Hayes, Ann Bailey

If you could only get past feelings of embarrassment, fear, self-criticism, and self-doubt, how would your life be different? You might take more chances and make more mistakes, but you’d also be able to live more freely and confidently than ever before.

Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life for Teens is a workbook that provides you with essential skills for coping with the difficult and sometimes overwhelming emotions that stress you out and cause you pain. The emotions aren’t going anywhere, but you can find out how to deal with them. Once you do, you will become a mindful warrior—a strong person who handles tough emotions with grace and dignity—and gain many more friends and accomplishments along the way.

Based in proven-effective acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), this book will arm you with powerful skills to help you use the power of mindfulness in everyday situations, stop finding faults in yourself and start solving your problems, how to be kinder to yourself so you feel confident and have a greater sense of self-worth, and how to identify the values that will help you create the life of your dreams.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Counselling, Parenting, Self Help

152 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Dr. Ciarrochi is speaker, researcher, author, and Professor of Psychology. He has published many books and over 80 scientific papers on the causes of well-being and interpersonal effectiveness. Ciarrochi has been honored with over a million dollars in research funding and a prestigious Future Fellowship. His work has been discussed in magazines, newspaper articles, and radio.

Reviews

[Shaghayegh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very practical and easy to read not only for the therapists, but also for the adolescents, themselves.

[Sandy · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 Stars. Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life for Teens had me hooked from the foreword. Obviously, I’m not a teen anymore so I’m not exactly the target market, but I do sort of wish this book had been available for me as a teen. There were so many times that I judged incorrectly, not just people, but situations, and frankly still misjudge sometimes. But had this book been available to tell me that pushing past my comfort zones could be potentially rewarding and that saying no out of fear would only lead to building that fear up even greater in my mind…well I can’t say for sure that it would have made a huge difference, but it might have.

Of course, hindsight is 20/20, and being able to look back on my teen years from adulthood, I’d say I think these ideas, principles, and exercises presented in this book would have definitely helped. But that’s if I was actually willing to do the exercises as a teen. Also, considering I was a pretty stubborn kid (was????), I’m not sure I would have listened to anyone telling me to step out of the safety of my comfort zone.

All of that being said, I feel like this book if it’s not helpful for teens (again, I’m not really in a position to judge that) might be helpful for parents of teens (even pre-teens maybe) and any other person (i.e. teacher, school counselor, etc) that might work with teens and pre-teens. The authors try to cover quite a large subject in a small book, and while I personally feel like I got a lot out of it and feel like I know some other adults who might also be able to benefit from this read, I think some of these subjects might be better handled not from a book but with interaction with one’s parents or loved ones. Now I realize that’s not always an option, at which point, I would definitely recommend this book. For me, it was a fast 4 star read with a lot of take away information to be applied to myself and to my future children. (Chapter 7 especially stuck with me. Realizing my mind is a problem finding machine, and that frankly sometimes the problems it finds are completely imaginary was quite helpful.)

[Samantha · Rating 4 out of 5]

This guide is in a workbook format, addressing topic including mindfulness, coping with negative emotions, being kind to yourself, valuing yourself, building friendships, and turning negative thoughts into postivie ones. Each chapter features an inspirational quote, includes exercises (written, meditation, activities, etc) to complete, and ends with "The Wrap Up" which summarizes the chapter and often asks thought-provoking questions. Two characters guide teens through the chapters. One is Jess, a 17-year-old girl and the other is Sam, a 15-year-old boy. The workbook does not condescend and offers good information to equip teens with better coping skills and better emotional well being. A good guide for teens in middle school and up. This would also make a great book study for a group of teens.

[Martalubiekorniszony · Rating 5 out of 5]

Spoko książka psychologiczna

[Patrycja · Rating 5 out of 5]

ta książka jest bardzo wartościowa, polecam!
(ale ostrzegam przed zażenowaniem przy "młodzieżowym" języku.....)

[Talissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this book. It gave some helpful tips to living life that are worth remembering. I also liked some of the stories of teens that turned their life around. Joseph Ciarrochi wrote this book to help teenagers and young adults by making them look at life in a new way. I would certainly recommend this book to several of my friends.

[Rachael · Rating 5 out of 5]

A workbook for teens, but I'd recommend it to anyone really. It's an easier-to-read and easier-to-apply version of the original book. We're reading a chapter a week together as a family, and the girls are mostly enjoying it, and we're all learning something. ;) 

[Choco · Rating 5 out of 5]

Review to come.

[Ellie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was good, but there was a lot of dramatic and weird content.

[Kimberly]

Too late to use w my almost 18 yo daughter. I am fully planning on reading and doing these exercises with my little ones when they are Tweens.

[Fiona (Titch) · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wanted to understand my teenagers, but I don't think I will lol. I didn't find this book helpful for me. But it was an interesting read and some things were helpful.

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book wasn't as useful to me as others in this series. Some of the chapters seemed more suited to younger children. Not bad, but I'm still looking for something more age appropriate.

[Olivia · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very helpful book, with many different tools, all which were relevant.

[Ada Molińska · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bardzo wartościowa książka. Pozwala zrozumieć swoje myśli i uczucia oraz jak sobie z nimi radzić. Bardzo przemyślany pomysł na książkę. Jeśli nie macie motywacji, przeczytajcie. Co więcej, książka porządkuje twoje wartości. Będziesz wiedział/a, na czym stoisz w życiu. Uczy dystansu, jak i cenienia siebie, co jest bardzo ważne. Pomoże też wam odkryć, co lubicie robić lub co chcecie zacząć robić. Bardzo polecam, dużo z niej wyniosłam.

[Meghna · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful book on how to lead your life the way you like. The book guides on how to overcome your struggles and hold on to your values and know what you want in life through simple exercises and illustrations. Must read, not only for teenagers but adults also.

[Julia · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5
Łatwo i szybko się czyta, dużo potocznych wyrazów.
Odnoszę wrażenie, że jest to książka przeznaczona głównie dla osób, które dopiero zaczynają interesować się psychologią. Ja niestety praktycznie nic nowego się nie dowiedziałam.

Te białe kartki..

[Valentina Alfonso · Rating 5 out of 5]

AMÉ. Me lo recomendó mi tia que es psicóloga, realmente me ayudo a entender como funciona la mente. Tengo 24 años y lo amé. Lo super recomiendo a cualquier persona de cualquier edad.

Las habilidades ROCA son claves. Y fáciles de aplicar en lo cotidiano.

[Klara Gonciarz · Rating 1 out of 5]

picked it up after precisely 3h of anxiety attack over university research. now i at least know how messed up my troubled mind is.

[Zuzia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Książka pomocna w szczególności jak ma się jakieś problemy z swoimi np uczuciami ale tłumaczenie na polski okropne 🤮 mam wrażenie ze była tłumaczona po łebkach ,niedokładnie i spiesząc się

[greysaleks · Rating 5 out of 5]

Całym sercem kocham ACT. <3

[Martyna Fila · Rating 2 out of 5]

Książka nie nauczyła mnie nic nowego. Poza tym wciskanie niektórych słów było poprostu żenujące i naprawdę niepotrzebne.

[Julia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Polecam. Fajna książka psychologiczna ale liczyłam na coś więcej 3⭐️

[Emilia Janiak · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super. Bardzo wartościowa książka 💜

[Ainhoa Estévez · Rating 1 out of 5]

No se ni que decir JAJAJAJJA

[Camille Summers · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great ACT book.

[Eustacia Tan · Rating 2 out of 5]

When I saw this book on NetGalley, I thought it looked interesting. After all, although I know that there are quite a few books targeted at teens, I haven't really read that many. Well, this book is meant to help teens as they grow up right? And I'm still a teen so I'm the target market. But why do I feel so, so dissatisfied with the book after reading it?

Basically this short book focuses on being what they call a "mindful warrior" which involves the following skills: Breathing Deeply and Slowing Down, Observing, Listening to your Values and Deciding on actions and doing them. It actually sounds like something I was taught before, in golf. (My golf CCA, Co-Curricula Activities if you don't know the term, was very big on LifeSkills).

But somehow, it feels like the book says that you can change your life on your own strength. That's probably the part where I disagree with. I believe that without God, it's impossible to change your life because He is the One who gives me strength. Although I know that those lifeskills are good, and I do use them, I don't think that they would work for a very significant changes.

For me, I would take this book with a very large pinch of salt. The skills they talk about are by themselves good skills, but I don't believe that they can bring about the inner change needed to change your life.

The book itself is a quick and easy read, and within the book itself are a lot of excercises you can do to take stock of your life/practice the skills mentioned. So really, the only thing I disagree with are the contents. If you still want to read the book, then just bear in mind what I wrote, read what the book says and evaluate it yourself(:

Disclaimer: I got this book free from NetGalley in exchange for a free and honest review

First posted at Inside the mind of a Bibliophile

[Aisha]

Review to also be posted on http://eyeteethreviews.blog.com

[Jota · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un libro interesante. Trata de adaptar el mensaje de la terapia de aceptación y compromiso a un lector adolescente y lo hace muy bien, ya seas adolescente o no ;-)

[karolina ♡ · Rating 3 out of 5]

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