Transforming Stress for Teens: The HeartMath Solution for Staying Cool Under Pressure

by Rollin McCraty, Sarah Moor, Jeff Goelitz

It’s stressful being a teen! In Transforming Stress for Teens , leaders from the world-renowned Institute of HeartMath and Clemson University’s Youth Learning Institute team up to teach overwhelmed and stressed-out teens how to use HeartMath skills—proven-effective tools and techniques to help you manage daily stress and anxiety, and develop resilience by managing emotion. The teen years are a time of significant change and growth, and teens face numerous stressors like homework overload, conflict with friends and family, balancing school and other responsibilities, and dealing with the all-too-common feeling of being left out or of not belonging. Emotions can “drain your battery,” and many teens struggle when it comes to managing their everyday stress. Some withdraw or even turn to destructive behaviors in an effort to feel better. Following the success of Transforming Stress , this book is the first to provide teens with the life-changing, proven-effective HeartMath skills for reducing stress. Using these practical evidence-based concepts and techniques, this book will help you manage stress by showing you how to manage your emotions. And with these emotion regulation skills, like the relaxing heart-breathing technique, you’ll feel calmer, be more confident, think more clearly, bounce back from challenging situations, and enjoy life with a new understanding of what’s really important to you. Transforming Stress for Teens will help you recognize the mental, emotional, and physical impact of stress, and guide you toward finding balance, clarity, and self-assurance with the proven HeartMath tools. When you feel better, you do better—this book will show you how.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help

216 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2015

Reviews

[Brittany · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great tool!

[Christi · Rating 3 out of 5]

The techniques used in this book could be very helpful for youths and adults alike who struggle with anxiety. The book seems fairly straight forward to me, using breathing and meditative interventions to calm your nerves, but I could see this being very helpful for a young person who wants to get control over their emotions in a productive/non-aggressive/anti-panicked way.

[Ilana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Written for teenagers, this is more than a self-help book. It offers professional guidance and inspiration for overcoming the usual stress the teens are dealing with on a daily basis. It focuses on the strengthening of the individual and an efficient emotions management. The writing is accessible yet maintaining a scientific level . Strongly recommended to any teen trying to find his or her way out of this time of uncertainties in a smooth and less confrontational way.
Disclaimer: Book offered by the publisher in exchange for an honest review

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a behavior specialist working with children and families, this book is a clear and concise resource for guiding teens and families to important skills and strategies to support navigating what can be an overwhelming journey into adulthood. The authors use truly "relate-able" language for young adults; giving great space for conversations to grow! The HEARTMATH team has once again created another path to coherence and positive emotional health!
Amy E. Tamsen MS-ECE; MS-MHC
Wausau WI