A Better Day: Your Positive Mental Health Handbook - Winner of the Children's Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2023

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A Better Day’ is a positive, accessible and practical toolkit guiding young readers in how they can care for their mental health with confidence. Interspersed with the text are attractive black and white illustrations, and little positive, motivational comments, e.

Written by the award-winning author and podcaster Elizabeth Day, this is a sensible, kind and practical tool for all teenagers (and adults! Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. In part three of the book (“A Better Day”) there’s useful advice about maintaining a healthy diet, being creative, sleeping well and developing resilience and mental strength to be able to deal with the problems that come as part of life. This book provides all the scaffolding and practical techniques, so readers can look towards their future with optimism and positivity.Highly recommend this for older primary and younger secondary age, and also maybe for an adult who just wants a simplified version of mental health and wellness. I read the first page and we'll it brought a tear to my eye as it hit me more so how you can see the book through a person going through the same. The book remains positive throughout and you get the feeling that the author has personal lived experience, and understands well the struggles that the reader may be going through. Most books cover grief solely as something experienced after a death and it’s so refreshing to see it described as loss; whether that’s a breakup, someone you know longer see etc there are many ways to experience loss and grief but it isn’t acknowledged as much as it should be.

I think this book is wonderful and I think all children in schools should be given one as in the world right as children are suffering with there mental health and in schools there isn't the support there should be. This audiobook provides all the scaffolding and practical techniques to help you do this, so though you might be having a hard time right now, you can look toward your future with optimism and positivity.Alex is also the author of Live Well Every Day, which was a Sunday Times bestseller and was published in 2021 by Aster, part of the Octopus Publishing Group. He recently presented his own documentary for BBC One and Children in Need, is a regular guest on Lorraine , and has his own show, Inner Harmony on Classic FM. But though life is full of ups and downs, there are ways you can stay on top of your mental health - including overcoming stigma, talking about your feelings, developing resilience and switching your mindset. Alex is also the author of Live Well Every Day , which was a Sunday Times bestseller and was published in 2021 by Aster, part of the Octopus Publishing Group. The book does cover issues such as phobias, self-harm and panic attacks but it isn’t necessarily easy to find the information.