School Anxiety

This is a guide to anxiety: why we feel it, how we experience it when it strikes, and what we can do when we come under its influence. Across a series of essays that look at the subject from a number of angles, the tone is helpful, compassionate, and in the best sense, practical.

Social media phenomenon and mental health advocate Chris Olsen invites readers into his therapist’s office—and into the story he’s spent years trying to understand—in this raw, fearless, and darkly funny memoir. For much of his childhood, Chris Olsen believed his family was ordinary...

You do not need to empty your mind to begin meditating. You need a simple way to notice racing thoughts, calm your body, and return to the present one breath at a time. Anxiety can make ordinary life feel loud. Your mind may jump ahead, replay conversations, imagine problems, tense your body, interrupt sleep, or keep pulling you into worry loops that are hard to stop. Being told to “just relax” usually does not help. Meditation for Anxiety is a practical beginner’s guide for anyone who wants to use meditation as a simple self-support tool for anxious thoughts, everyday stress, ...

American boys are failing to meet their potential—the author of the New York Times bestseller The Collapse of Parenting explains why, and what we can do about it, in this updated edition. A growing proportion of American boys are failing. From kindergarten to college, boys are becoming less...

Includes a mindfulness meditation led by the author! From psychotherapist Meg Josephson, a groundbreaking “cure for chronic people-pleasing” (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that explores the common survival instinct called fawning and offers “explanations, comfort, and...

New York Times Bestseller! From the bestselling author of Who Gets In and Why, a must-have playbook for families coping with a more stressful era of startling low admission rates and sky-high prices—one that widens the aperture beyond the Top 25 schools and connects students, parents, and...

New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson weaves a delicate tale of murder and mystery in the first book of a striking new series, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and E. Lockhart. Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An award-winning guide to the sometimes erratic and confusing behavior of teenage girls from the author of Under Pressure and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers Dr. Lisa Damour worked as an expert collaborator on Pixar’s Inside Out 2! “The most down-to-earth...

How to Survive the Modern World is the ultimate guide to navigating our unusual times. It identifies a range of themes that present acute challenges to our mental wellbeing. The book tackles our relationship to the news media, our ideas of love and sex, our assumptions about money and our careers, our attitudes to animals and the natural world, our admiration for science and technology, our belief in individualism and secularism–and our suspicion of quiet and solitude.

Harvard psychologist and TED star Amy Cuddy reveals how to unleash your boldest self to heighten your confidence, influence others, and perform at your peak. Have you ever left a nerve-racking challenge and immediately wished for a do over? Maybe after a job interview, a performance, or a...

This parenting classic on one of the most disturbing and misunderstood trends of our time--peers replacing parents in the lives of children--is now more relevant than ever. The latest edition includes new material on how social media and video game culture are affecting our children, and what...

Find tonight's worry. Read tonight's story. Ten read-aloud bedtime stories for children ages 4–8 — one for each of the worries that keep little ones awake the week before school starts. Not a pile of stories: an index of worries, so you can turn to the one your child is actually carrying tonight. "I won't know anybody." Maya decides she does not need the whole room — just one kind face, and she could be somebody else's. "I'll miss you all day." Leo will not take off his backpack, until Dad's river stone becomes a two-way stone — and Leo makes a second one, so the missing runs both ...

FIRST CLASS TEST ANXIETY: Law Students on the Frontline of Next Generation Bar Prep The Bar Exam is evolving—and so is anxiety. In this powerful and practical guide, licensed mental health counselor Haron Marlee helps future lawyers navigate the psychological side of the NextGen Bar Exam, a new testing era that measures reasoning, analysis, and adaptability instead of rote memorization. As the system shifts, so does the stress response. First Class Test Anxiety explores how change, uncertainty, and pressure interact with the mind and body, and teaches you how to steady yourself in the ...

Unlock the Hidden Power of ADHD - Transform Focus, Energy, and Confidence by Resetting the Brain’s Reward System Are you doing everything “right” but still watching focus slip through your fingers? Have you ever wondered why traditional ADHD strategies fall short - despite the best diets, therapies, and medications? What if the secret to managing ADHD wasn’t about doing more - but about understanding why the ADHD brain craves more in the first place? The Dopamine Detox is a groundbreaking guide that takes you beyond surface-level solutions and into the brain’s primal operating ...

Your anxious brain is not broken! Is anxiety robbing you of your life? Wearing you out? Always making you feel exhausted even when you’re doing nothing? Is your body tensing up without you even noticing? Do you sometimes feel like all you wanna do is lie in your bed? All curled up in a ball for the rest of your life? Anxiety is the silent monster of our times. Maybe you suffer from social anxiety, you think everyone judges you, always, even your closest friend. Maybe you overthink situations so much it makes you anxious and you can't find relief… Sometimes you don’t even want to get ...

Your teenager already feels more than one thing at once. This gives them a way to understand it. One part of them wants to put a hand up in class. Another keeps them quiet. One part pushes them to get everything right; another wants to stay in bed all Saturday. Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a way of making sense of all of it — every one of those parts is doing a job, each one is worth listening to, and underneath them all is a calm, curious Self that can lead. Parts of Me is a 208-page guide and workbook that introduces IFS to readers aged 12 to 18, in plain language and at their own ...

New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller! In New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson’s second novel in the Truly Devious series, there are more twists and turns than Stevie Bell can imagine. No answer is given freely, and someone will pay for the truth with their life. The...

Conquer teenage anxiety and silence an overwhelmed brain with proven mental health tools built for stress relief. Whether you are battling a panic spiral before a big exam or struggling to sleep because your thoughts will not stop spinning, relief is entirely possible. This calming audio guide...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement culture” overtaking our kids' and parents' lives, and a new framework for fighting back In the ever more competitive race to secure the best possible future, today’s students face unprecedented...

Transform teenage anxiety into resilience with this practical parenting guide for highly sensitive adolescents. When ordinary daily routines trigger intense reactions, navigating the emotional storms of high school and family dynamics leaves many caregivers feeling exhausted. Learn how to...