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Mindfulness for Parents & Teens
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Mindful Parenting : Find Peace and Joy Through Stress-free, Conscious Parenting
by Oli Doyle
Guides the reader through a six-week guide to show how mindfulness can help us be completely present in the messy reality that is parenting. This inspiring, empowering guide to making your parenting journey a means to achieve peace of mind, will give parents the skills to enjoy every moment with their children. Key learnings include: how to move beyond beliefs about parenting and the need to be the perfect parent; learn how to appreciate and enjoy the simple things in life; and how to make 'not knowing' a positive opportunity in family life.
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Mindful parenting in a messy world : living with presence and parenting with purpose
by Michelle Gale
Being a parent is difficult, stressful and messy: getting kids to bed at night and off to school in the morning, breaking up sibling fights, struggling to balance work and family, constantly cleaning up stuff left behind by family members and pets. And then there are those messy feelings: unappreciated, misunderstood, guilty and inadequate, sure that other parents must be doing it better. Mindful Parenting Educator Michelle Gale has been there. Working at Twitter and other high-tech start-ups while raising two sons, she felt all these emotions. Then she found an answer that parents often miss in the mayhem: being present in each moment. That simple shift - learning to embrace life in the moment, especially when it is messy, is at the heart of this guidebook.
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Mindful games : sharing mindfulness and meditation with children, teens, and families
by Susan Kaiser Greenland
Introducing children to breathing practices and techniques for developing focus, concentration and sensory awareness, and identifying self-regulating emotions, among other skills, a playful approach for cultivating mindfulness in kids features 50 games that are both enjoyable and transformative. By the author of The Mindful Child.
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Growing up mindful : essential practices to help children, teens, and families find balance, calm, and resilience
by Christopher Willard
Introducing mindfulness into the lives of our children and teenagers is perhaps the greatest gift we can offer. Mindfulness builds emotional intelligence, boosts happiness, increases curiosity and engagement, reduces anxiety and depression, soothes the pain of trauma, and helps kids (and adults) focus, learn, and make better choices. If that weren’t enough, research now shows that mindfulness significantly enhances what psychologists call “flourishing”—the opposite of depression and avoidance.
Growing Up Mindful helps parents, educators, and counselors learn how to embody and share the skills of mindfulness that will empower our children with resilience throughout their lives. With more than 75 accessible exercises and practices, along with adaptations for the individual needs of a wide range of children and teens, this inspiring guidebook brings you road-tested insights and tools.
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Radical acceptance : embracing your life with the heart of a Buddha
by Tara Brach
Combining the principles of psychotherapy with the teachings of Buddhism, this illuminating guide explains how to eliminate the personal conflicts and feelings of not being good enough that can cause such problems as addiction, overwork, and perfectionism, and how to develop balance, compassion, acceptance, self-healing, and a more fulfilling life.
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Mindfulness for teen anger : a workbook to overcome anger & aggression using MBSR & DBT skills
by Mark C. Purcell
Being a teen in today's world is hard, and often teens struggle with feelings of anger toward themselves, their parents, and their friends. Using proven effective mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), Mindfulness for Teen Anger teaches teens the difference between healthy and unhealthy forms of anger. Inside, teens will learn to make better choices, stop overreacting, find emotional balance, and be more aware of their thoughts and feelings in the moment.
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Mindfulness for teen anxiety : a workbook for overcoming anxiety at home, at school, and everywhere else
by Christopher Willard
It's hard enough being a teen without having to worry about panic attacks, chronic worry, and feelings of isolation. In Mindfulness for Teen Anxiety, a psychologist offers teen readers proven-effective, mindfulness-based practices to help them cope with their anxiety, identify common triggers (such as dating or school performance), learn valuable time-management skills, and feel calm at home, at school, and with friends.
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