No Worries: How to Deal with Teenage Anxiety
This non-fiction book provides young readers who experience anxiety with information and strategies to better support themselves in their daily teenage life, as well as into adulthood. In sharing her own experiences with anxiety, the author creates a compassionate environment that imparts no judgement or criticism on an individual’s feelings.
Presenting anxiety as a spectrum, this book connects with individuals who experience anxiety daily as well as those who support someone who experiences anxiety. This broad audience provides the author with the opportunity to not just share tools and advice for those directly experiencing anxiety, but also the opportunity to increase awareness and acceptance of anxiety across its entire readership.
Using an authoritative, educational tone, the author explains what anxiety actually is, and what it is not. The text shares information in bite-sized chunks, the how and why of anxiety, its common misconceptions, and its impact on someone’s life. This book is not marketed as a one-size-fits-all reading experience, but it provides ample space for readers of all levels to engage with the text and reap its many rewards.
This accessible book is packed with brief, helpful quizzes and a host of real-life strategies that are applicable to every reader. Expansive in its approach, the information is adaptable to the ongoing changes young people experience today with specific references to social media included throughout. An easy read with a lot of impact, this is a key book for young people to have access to in their library.
