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Sometimes everything sucks. This unique, illustrated guide will help you move past negative thoughts and feelings and discover what truly matters to you.If you struggle with negative thoughts and emotions, you should know that your pain is real. No one should try to diminish it. Sometimes stuff really does suck and we have to acknowledge it. Worry, sadness, loneliness, anger, and shame are big and important, but they can also get in the way of what really matters. What if, instead of fighting your pain, you realized what really matters to you and put those things first in life? If you did that, maybe your pain wouldn t feel so big anymore. Isn t it worth a try? Stuff That Sucks offers a compassionate and validating guide to accepting emotions, rather than struggling against them. With this book as your guide, you ll learn to prioritize your thoughts, feelings, and values. You ll figure out what you care about the most, and then start caring some more! The skills you ll learn are based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). Yes, there are a few written exercises, but this isn t a workbook. It s a journey into the stuff that sucks, what makes that sucky stuff suck even more, and how just a few moments each day with the stuff that matters will ultimately transform the stuff that sucks into stuff that is just stuff. Make sense?Maybe you want to be the best basketball player or the best Halo player in the world? Maybe you want to be more creative? Or maybe you simply want to do better in school or be a better friend? This book will show you how to focus on what you really care about, so that all that other sucky stuff doesn t seem so, well, sucky anymore.

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Ben Sedley has written a wonderful book for teens. A must-have for the collection. <i>Stuff That Sucks </i>delivers with powerful images, clear messages on what it means to be a human, and lots of ideas for helping teens. A fabulous book. <b> Louise Hayes, PhD</b>, coauthor of <i>The Thriving Adolescent</i> and <i>Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life for Teens</i>

-Put simply, Stuff That Sucks is good stuff! Short and to the point, it can help teens from thirteen to at least forty-nine learn to handle life's yucky stuff in a way that will help them get to the good stuff. Far from being a stuffy psych book, this is a concise how-to guide to the stuff that really counts: living a life free from getting stuffed by the stuff that sucks.- --Benjamin Schoendorff, MA, MSc, founder of the Contextual Psychology Institute in Montreal, QC, Canada; international acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) trainer; and coauthor of the recent The Essential Guide to the ACT Matrix and The ACT Practitioner's Guide to the Science of Compassion

Ben Sedley has written a wonderful book for teens. A must-have for the collection. <i>Stuff That Sucks </i>delivers with powerful images, clear messages on what it means to be a human, and lots of ideas for helping teens. A fabulous book. <b>--Louise Hayes, PhD</b>, coauthor of <i>The Thriving Adolescent</i> and <i>Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life for Teens</i>

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Ben Sedley is a clinical psychologist and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) practitioner with over fifteen years of experience working with adolescents and families facing mental health difficulties. Sedley's research and practice has focused on examining children and young people's understanding of mental health, which has helped guide him on the best ways to explain mental health concepts and ACT to young people.

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