The One and Only You! How to Be the Best, Truest, You-est You

by Nicole Jon Sievers, Darcy Cline (Illustrator), Ruth Matinko-Wald (Editor)

Overview

At last, a book for tweens on learning to own and love being who you are--in all your messy, beautiful uniqueness!

Jam packed with fun illustrations, ample opportunities for self-exploration, and open spaces for creativity--The One and Only You! is an "emotions workbook" for kids in fourth through sixth grades. Topics include:

• brain science
• growth mindset and grit
• automatic negative thoughts and how to work with them
• why community engagement matters
• how to make better decisions

Tweens also will learn the value of belonging, diversity, internal motivation, and compassion as well as the power in being ridiculously yourself.

Given current rates of teen depression, anxiety, and suicide--and the fact that anxiety affects nearly one-third of adolescents today--The One and Only You! arms kids early enough in their lives with social-emotional skills that they might reach their teen years resilient and ready to talk back to their negative thoughts.

The One and Only You! also features an appendix for teachers, counselors, youth group leaders, parents, and other caring adults of innovative group enrichment activities for enhancing classroom social-emotional learning for tweens.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780996401319
Publisher:	E&N Sievers
Publication date:	09/15/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	218
File size:	11 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	10 - 12 Years

About the Author

Nicole (Cole) Jon Sievers, MSW, LCSW, is an innovative problem solver, speaker, licensed clinical social worker, educator, social justice advocate, and co-author (with Norene Gonsiewski) of the award-winning "It's Your Mind: Own It! A Manual for Every Teen." For over thirty years, she has worked with youth and the systems serving them. Her diverse roles have included therapist, teacher, educational district consultant, Outward Bound instructor, and forensic consultant. Nicole is the founder and executive director of Stand for Courage (standforcourage.org). This bullying-prevention program employs stories, creativity, and popular culture to recognize students leading bystander action to eradicate bullying. In 2014, the SFC school-based program was honored by the American Psychological Association with a Visionary Award. In 2017, an academic study reported that victimization decreased by 69 percent when schools implemented SFC bullying-prevention practices. Building on her bullying prevention work, Nicole also served as a producer for the IndieFlix documentary "The Upstanders," about the bystander's role in bullying prevention. Nicole also is the co-founder of Little Mercies (littlemercies.org), a nonprofit creating channels for simple kindness and for the distribution of essentials to ease the suffering of children living in the world's harshest conditions. The current focus of Little Mercies is migrant children awaiting court dates in U.S. border towns and Burmese refugee children in Thailand. An important component of Little Mercies is youth supporting youth. Little Mercies' backpack program has delivered close to 3,000 backpacks filled with essential items. Many of these have been collected by youth and filled by youth. Also an avid supporter of the arts, Nicole served on the Seattle Music Commission from 2014 to 2019. She also is an Advisory Board member of the Origins Project Foundation, which strives to address the challenges of the 21st century through public events with thought leaders. Nicole lives in La Jolla, California. She and her husband, Eric, are the grateful parents of five sons, two large dogs, and a cat.
Darcy Cline is an illustrator, graphic designer, and artist with a career spanning over thirty years. She studied graphic design and art at Central Washington University, The Art Institute of Seattle, and Pierce College, where she won Art Student of the Year and discovered the Student Life programs. This connection led to working with design and international students as a designer/mentor with Pierce College Student Life and Tacoma Community College Office of Student Engagement. From 2001-2010, Darcy led mission trips to La Gloria, Mexico, with Esperanza. Through this organization's programs, high school and college students spend a week building community and cinder-block homes with families in the towns of Tijuana County. Darcy also led student trips to work with the people of the Crow Reservation in Billings, Montana, and with migrant farm workers of Lynden, Washington. All these mission trips were community-building and learning-based experiences. Darcy is the proud mother of four grown children and two grandchildren. She lives in Washington State with her husband, two rescue pups, and an abandoned cat who adopted the family.

Table of Contents

1. First Things First: Own YOU!
2. How Other People Can Help You Discover YOU
3. No One is Perfect, But Everyone Can Be Creative
4. Yay, Boo, Ugh, Grrrrr: Understanding Feelings
5. Take That, ANTs!
6. Sometimes "Being Green" Isn't Easy
7. Feeling Good About Yourself
8. Being Mad & Sad
9. Anxiety, Worry, & Panic, Oh, My!
10. Your Shield: Is It Real? Is It Kind?
11. The Power of Compassion
12. You Can Do It!
13. Imaginal Discs & the Butterfly You Are

Group Enrichment Exercises

Notes

Acknowledgments

Meet the Author

Meet the Illustrator

Editorial Reviews

08/29/2022

Sievers (co-author of It’s Your Mind: Own it! A Manual for Every Teen) offers a fresh take on self-development in this entertaining but weighty guide. Drawing on her experience as a licensed clinical social worker, she tackles crucial issues impacting younger readers, and offers them creative ways to cope, emphasizing above all else that everyone is "a masterpiece in progress.” With an emphasis on staying curious and viewing mistakes as opportunities, Sievers teaches clever problem-solving skills juxtaposed with rigorous explanations of the science behind them, all while presenting each concept in a playful, upbeat manner that will resonate with tween and teen readers.

The power of positive thinking ripples throughout Sievers’s writing, and adult caregivers will applaud her insistence on celebrating diversity: she addresses why different perspectives are not only necessary but helpful, stresses the importance of viewing diversity as a strength, and is attentive to the unique needs of her readers—including touching on neurodiversity, which is often overlooked in similar literature. Likewise, bold black and white illustrations by Darcy Cline give the subject matter a cheerful edge (while incorporating welcome diversity) even for the most serious of topics. And readers should expect substance along with the fun, as Sievers explores a host of essentials, from detailing brain processes to breaking down Howard Gardner’s theory on multiple intelligences.

Sievers’s willingness to employ a variety of resources is what sets this guide apart from classic self-help writing for younger readers, and her inclusion of group exercises at the end, offering adults enrichment activities to go along with each chapter, is invaluable. Every concept is accompanied by creative and kid-friendly worksheets that will energize readers and leave them eager to try out Sievers’s teachings, whether by designing their own comic strip on working together or rewriting lyrics to their favorite songs as an anxiety buster. Readers of any age will find this worthwhile.

Takeaway: A comprehensive and entertaining self-development guide for middle-grade readers.

Great for fans of: Imogen Harrison’s The Worry Workbook, Andy Cope, Gavin Oattes, and Will Hussey’s Diary of a Brilliant Kid.

Production grades Cover: A- Design and typography: A Illustrations: A Editing: A Marketing copy: A-

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