Step into My Power: A Guide to Feeling Good and Living Your Best Life

by Jamia Wilson, Andrea Pippins (Illustrator), Claire Grace (Editor)

Overview

This newly updated and extended version of Step Into Your Power, filled with insights, stories, and activities, teaches you how to discover your own inner strength and mental resilience, and to learn how to harness your own power.

You’ve heard about heroes and read about the greats, but maybe you’re not feeling so great yourself right now? Learn from the lived experience of author Jamia Wilson and illustrator Andrea Pippins as they mentor you through growing up in the modern world, and teach you how to Step into Your Power.

In this friendly guide, learn how to look after yourself, “organize, don’t agonize,”make good choices, get out of ruts, branch out, shake up your mindset, and ask for help. How do you overcome a setback? How do you cope when you or a family member gets sick? How do you change your mindset when you can’t change your situation? Step into My Power offers advice and tools to help you face these challenges.

Divided by into the topics of Power, Community, Choices, Act!, Self-Care, and a new section on Dealing With Difficult Times, this empowering reference includes self-care advice and activities on every page that you can take and make your very own.

Take this time to explore what it means to know and trust your insights and capabilities with stories, images, activities, resources, and action prompts that you can interact with on your own time and, most importantly, on your terms.

A warm and friendly growing-up guide, this book is crucial for the time we are living in right now.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780711276499
Publisher:	Wide Eyed Editions
Publication date:	08/02/2022
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	1,055,952
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Jamia Wilson joined Random House as an executive editor in 2021, and is the former executive director and publisher of the Feminist Press. An activist and writer, Wilson has contributed to New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Today Show, CNN, BBC, Teen Vogue, Elle, Refinery 29, Rookie, and The Guardian. She is the author of Young Gifted and Black; Baby Young, Gifted, and Black; Step Into Your Power; and Big Ideas for Young Thinkers. She is also a co-author of Road Map for Revolutionaries and wrote the introduction and oral history to Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World.

Andrea Pippins is an illustrator, designer, and author who has a passion for creating images that reflect what she wants to see in art, media, and pop culture. Her vision is to empower people of color with tools and inspiration to create and tell their own stories. She is the best-selling creator of the coloring book I Love My Hair and the interactive journal Becoming Me. Her clients include O: The Oprah Magazine, Scoop Magazine, Family Circle, The Huffington Post, Bustle, Free People, Lincoln Center, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Andrea is based in Stockholm, Sweden. 

Table of Contents

Power

You've Got This! Tap into your strengths 8

Slay Your Fear! 14

Tell the Truth: Saying "Yes" to saying "No" 18

Stay Intact: Hold on to your wholeness. You are enough 24

Keep Calm: You belong! Take your rightful place 28

Define Yourself: Write your own life rules 32

Community

Lift as you Climb: Support your squad 42

Find a Mentor: Learn from your heroes 48

Ask for Help (Especially when you need it most) 54

Live and Let Go: Dealing with drama, bullies, and fickle "friends" 60

Choices

Take Heart and Trust Your Gut 66

Ask for It: Own what you want 70

Don't Fit In? Pave New Ground 74

Be You, Not "Perfect" 78

Act!

Speak Truth to Adults: Know your rights and take action 86

Don't Agonize Organize: Create what you need 90

In a Rut? Get Unstuck! 94

Branch Out: Find your crew 100

Self-Care

Be Kind to Yourself 108

Listen to Your Body 114

Dealing with Illness 120

Find the Lesson: Bounce back from the dumps, failures, and other bummers 126

Shine Brightly Without Burning Out 130

Dealing with Difficult Times

Transitions: Read your way to presence and a new perspective 138

Loneliness 142

Healthy Communications 146

Communicating Boundaries 150

Editorial Reviews

“A growing-up guide for girls, designed to help them find their strengths and hit their stride.”—The Bookseller

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