Do you often feel anxious, irritable, angry, impatient or wound up—and don’t understand why? Learn to identify what is actually affecting your mood, and how to respond more calmly.
Feel fine one minute and overwhelmed the next? Understand your emotions, spot your triggers, and build practical ways to manage difficult moments.
Being a teenager can feel exhausting. This book helps you when your feelings become overwhelming. School, friendships, family, social media, changing relationships and expectations can all affect how you think and feel—sometimes before you even realise it. Learn how to spot negative feelings before they take hold and set up your own toolkit to deal with these issues.
Your feelings are valid—but you don’t have to face them without understanding what’s happening or knowing what to do next.
Teens’ Guide to Health and Mental Wellness is a clear, reassuring guide to looking after your physical and emotional wellbeing. It helps you understand yourself better, develop healthier habits, and create a personal toolkit for handling everyday pressures.
Inside, you’ll learn how to deal with:
• Feeling anxious without knowing how to settle yourself? Use practical techniques to calm your mind and regain a sense of control.
• Becoming angry, irritable or overwhelmed? Identify your triggers earlier and respond without saying or doing something you may regret.
• Struggling to understand sudden changes in your mood? Understand what may be influencing your emotions and make better sense of how you feel.
• Feeling mentally and physically drained? Build healthier routines around sleep, food, movement and self-care to support your energy and wellbeing.
• Getting trapped in negative thoughts? Challenge unhelpful thinking and replace it with more balanced views.
• Feeling under constant pressure from school, relationships or social media? Protect your mental space, set sensible boundaries, and focus on what genuinely matters.
• Keeping problems to yourself because you don’t know how to explain them? Find the words to talk about how you feel and ask for appropriate support.
• Worrying that something may be seriously wrong? Identify important warning signs and understand when—and where—to seek help.
• Don’t know where to begin looking after yourself? Build your own realistic wellness toolkit with strategies that suit your life.
Written in straightforward language, this book provides practical support without lectures, judgement or impossible promises.
You may not be able to control everything that happens around you—but you can certainly understand yourself better, strengthen your mental fitness, and become more confident about handling what comes next.
Start building the knowledge, habits and coping skills that can support you now and throughout adult life.
Kev Chilton spent most of his working life as an inner-city police officer and detective, specialising in murder, gun crime and other serious offences. But long before that, he joined the police as a 16-year-old cadet and quickly discovered where his true impact lay - working with young people.Early in his career, Kev was tasked with supporting young offenders. By listening first and speaking second, he built trust with teenagers who were ofteKev Chilton is a former inner-city police officer and detective who specialised in serious crime - but his greatest impact came from working directly with young people.Joining the police as a 16-year-old cadet, Kev soon focused on supporting young offenders, building trust through listening, mentorship and straight-talk guidance. He organised youth clubs, delivered school talks and created specialist juvenile teams aimed at helping teenagers change direction before their mistakes defined them.Drawing on decades of real-world experience, Kev now writes the award-winning Teens' Guide series, offering practical, honest advice for teenagers - and for the parents, carers and teachers who support them.He lives in Kent, England, and continues to work closely with families and young people.
