Do you often feel anxious, irritable, angry, impatient or wound up—and don’t understand why? Learn to identify what is actually affecting your mood, and how to respond more calmly.
Feel fine one minute and overwhelmed the next? Understand your emotions, spot your triggers, and build practical ways to manage difficult moments.
Being a teenager can feel exhausting. This book helps you when your feelings become overwhelming. School, friendships, family, social media, changing relationships and expectations can all affect how you think and feel—sometimes before you even realise it. Learn how to spot negative feelings before they take hold and set up your own toolkit to deal with these issues.
Your feelings are valid—but you don’t have to face them without understanding what’s happening or knowing what to do next.
Teens’ Guide to Health and Mental Wellness is a clear, reassuring guide to looking after your physical and emotional wellbeing. It helps you understand yourself better, develop healthier habits, and create a personal toolkit for handling everyday pressures.
Inside, you’ll learn how to deal with:
• Feeling anxious without knowing how to settle yourself? Use practical techniques to calm your mind and regain a sense of control.
• Becoming angry, irritable or overwhelmed? Identify your triggers earlier and respond without saying or doing something you may regret.
• Struggling to understand sudden changes in your mood? Understand what may be influencing your emotions and make better sense of how you feel.
• Feeling mentally and physically drained? Build healthier routines around sleep, food, movement and self-care to support your energy and wellbeing.
• Getting trapped in negative thoughts? Challenge unhelpful thinking and replace it with more balanced views.
• Feeling under constant pressure from school, relationships or social media? Protect your mental space, set sensible boundaries, and focus on what genuinely matters.
• Keeping problems to yourself because you don’t know how to explain them? Find the words to talk about how you feel and ask for appropriate support.
• Worrying that something may be seriously wrong? Identify important warning signs and understand when—and where—to seek help.
• Don’t know where to begin looking after yourself? Build your own realistic wellness toolkit with strategies that suit your life.
Written in straightforward language, this book provides practical support without lectures, judgement or impossible promises.
You may not be able to control everything that happens around you—but you can certainly understand yourself better, strengthen your mental fitness, and become more confident about handling what comes next.
Start building the knowledge, habits and coping skills that can support you now and throughout adult life.
Having a stark choice of fighting teens on the city streets or helping them find their way in life, Kev Chilton knew which way he wanted to go!For most of his working life, he was an inner-city cop and detective, concentrating on murder, gun crime, and other serious offences.However, he joined the police as a 16-year-old cadet and early in his career, he was tasked with helping young offenders, which quickly became his speciality. He noticed that by simply listening to the problems young people were concerned with, the majority were prepared to listen to him back. He built trusting relationships with most, who were happy to listen to and act on his advice. Many responded positively, and they moved confidently into adulthood.Throughout his police service, he arranged youth clubs, attended schools where he gave talks and maintained an open-door policy, encouraging any young person with a problem to approach him privately afterwards. He also set up and operated specialist juvenile squads geared towards helping those who had gone off the rails. The results were excellent, and he was never happier in his job than when he could redirect a young person's life onto the right path.It was a fulfilling time in his life, and it helped him understand the constantly evolving challenges teenagers face as they transition to adulthood. More specifically, as times change, so do the needs and circumstances of young people. Choosing the path of mentorship over the chaos of city streets, he has dedicated his journey to helping teenagers, steering them away from conflict and towards a brighter future.Through a series of empowering 'How-to' guidebooks for teens, Chilton has become a beacon of support for them.Today, he is proud to utilise his extensive experience to make a positive impact. He is particularly attuned to the unique issues that young people are currently grappling with, and one of his goals is to bridge the gap between them and the adults in their lives.He lives in a cold barn out in the country where he constantly fights the elements-a losing battle that keeps him off the streets!
