It Gets Better Now!
A Tool Guide for Teens
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Teens: Why Should You Read This Book?
You are not just your mind, your body, or your feelings. You are a soul, a spirit, an important part of this world, and you matter. There is more to you than your looks, your clothes, your friends, your grades, your popularity. When other people are treating you like crap, there are many things you can do to help yourself. If you wonder why you are here and you want to know more about yourself and feel good about yourself, then this book is for you.
What Is the Book About?
This book is about you.
It is about very special parts of you—your spirit and your soul.
It is about introducing you to Source, to the world of love that is there for you all the time.
It is about changes in your brain that you need to know about.
It is about letting you know where your inner power is and how to use it to feel better.
It is about helping you to stop feeling so crappy.
It’s about showing you some love from Source.
It is about giving you a chance to like yourself and, most importantly, to love yourself.
What’s In the Book?
Chapter 1 answers basic spiritual questions about who you are and why you are here in an easy-to-read question-and-answer format. It tells you about Source energy and your connection to this powerful universal love that is ready and waiting for you all the time.
Chapter 2 introduces you to the World of Your Heart and the kind, loving, wonderful things living there with you and Source all the time. It also shows you the difference between the World of Your Heart and the World of Your Mind. I introduce “Mindmuck”, when your mind is taking over and making you feel crappy.
Chapter 3 explains in detail the three easy steps you can take to get you out of Mindmuck and into the World of Your Heart.
Chapter 4 tells you important things about your brain. Scientists have recently discovered that your brain is going through major changes that affect you very much. You can learn to work with the awesome things your brain does better during adolescence than at any other time of your life.
Chapter 5 answers questions about the spiritual inner power you have to bring yourself to the World of Your Heart and make yourself feel and think better in the most difficult situations of your life.
Chapter 6 is a special section for you young lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit and questioning people and your awesome spiritual mission as members of a minority group that lives with hatred, cruelty, and injustice. This chapter shows you that you are more powerful than you realize, and that your ability to love is natural, needed, and super strong.
Chapter 7 introduces you to five tools you can use to bring yourself to the World of Your Heart, why I picked these five special tools, and when you can use them.
Chapter 8 is about gratitude. It answers basic questions about gratitude and how it can get you to the World of Your Heart really fast. Not sure what you have to be grateful for? Check out these pages and pages of examples to get you started. Learn how to write a letter of gratitude to Source and how you can bring a smile to someone’s face by practicing it with others.
Chapter 9 puts a new twist on an old practice called prayer. Find out what it is, how it works, when to use it, and the best things to use it for. You will also find unique examples of prayers to start you off on your path to having some quality quiet time with Source to ask for help.
Chapter 10 is an introduction to the very powerful tool of affirmations, what they are, how they work, and how many different ways you can do them in your life every day. You will find lots of examples of affirmations about the issues seriously affecting teenagers. These affirmations come from the World of My Heart to help you get to the World of Your Heart with powerful words of love and kindness.
Chapter 11 tells you about a powerful tool called reframing. Find out what it is and how it can help you see any situation in your life in a better light. There are many examples to show you how to use the power of reframing to get to the World of Your Heart when Mindmuck is at its worst.
Chapter 12 tells you about the fifth tool—reaching out—and how important it is to ask for help from someone kind and loving when you are stuck and want to get to the World of Your Heart.
Chapter 13 is about the importance of having a morning routine that starts you off in the World of Your Heart. One of the best things you can do when you wake up every day is hear kind and loving words. There are so many ideas about how to use gratitude, prayer, and affirmations in the morning that you will get excited about waking up each day!
Chapter 14 looks at the power of the last thoughts of your day and how using kind words during your bedtime routine can bring you better results than you could imagine. There are plenty of original examples of how you can use the tools of gratitude, prayer, affirmations, and reframing to bring yourself into the World of Your Heart and a peaceful, loving space right before you go to sleep.
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About the Book
It Gets Better NOW! A Tool Guide for Teens is the first spiritual self-help book written especially for young people that introduces them to their inner power and shows them how to use it.
This indispensable guide leads teens to spiritually empowered lives to help them deal with bullying and pain by introducing them to their true inner selves. It challenges teens' pre-conceived notions about power (or the lack thereof) and presents them with an easy three-step process they can use every day, anytime to learn how to change their thoughts and shift from feeling crappy to happy. It contains a chapter on the unique challenges of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit, queer and questioning (LGBTTQ) teens; and even a chapter on the complexities of the changing teenage brain.
All young people can use the tools in this guide to help themselves connect to the loving energy of the universe and learn how to F.L.Y. - First Love Yourself!!
About the Author
LJ knows from experience what it's like to live with deep pain and need tools to get out of it. Besides being hooked on spiritual solutions to everyday problems, LJ enjoys meeting and helping young people. She has a Master's in Social Work and has counseled and taught young people in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. She also taught AIDS education to young people living on the street and self-esteem to youth coming out. She used to volunteer in her LGBTTQ community as a public speaker, political lobbyist and coming out facilitator. She speaks English, French and German and loves to travel and share empowering information wherever she can.