When you feel completely stressed out by your crazy life, it often helps to channel your energy into a project or activity to make yourself feel better--and research shows that the more often you do things that shift your focus from the negative to the positive, the happier and more resilient you will be. This activity journal, for kids ages 13 and older, contains 50 fun, focused, supportive art projects, writing prompts, and exercises to help you make this shift--and to find ways to feel more calm, confident, resilient, and more able to take care of yourself and manage your emotions. This journal will also be an invaluable resource for teachers, guidance counselors, and therapists to use with young people in a group or academic setting.

Introduction: A guide to well-being -- Sense awareness -- Mindful of hobbies -- Mindful eating: take a mindful bite -- Take a break with the 3 Bs : body, breathe, begin -- Mindful check-in : your highs and lows -- Zooming out and in : shifting your perspective -- Your thoughts in 1-minute or less -- Mindful walking and photography practice -- Grounding focal points -- Your stress waves -- Ride the waves : manage your stress -- Drop anchor -- Dropping-in mindfulness practice -- Take in the good : doing what you enjoy -- Capturing your life moments : pleasant moments calendar -- Capturing your life moments : unpleasant moments calendar -- Mindful qualities: your values -- Your basic needs -- Your fundamental needs : safety, satisfaction, connection -- Getting your needs met : are you HALT? -- Positive self-care activities to resource yourself -- The self-care water bottle -- Take in beneficial experiences with HOT -- The playlists of your life : happy jams and depressing dives -- 130 positive coping skills to take in the good -- Plant seeds and pull weeds -- Feeling your feelings -- Don't get prickly -- Assert yourself : using mi-messages -- Sitting body scan mindfulness practice -- Train of thoughts -- Don't believe everything you think : don't get inked -- Your guest house -- Take a mindful pause : create a mindful bubble -- Urge surfing : surf the urge -- Your mental locker -- My mantra -- Thermostat setpoint : balancing your mood -- Mindful downtime -- Mindful self-care: levels of self-care activities -- Your heart space: a mindfulness practice -- The gratitude tree -- I see you and I hear you -- Little thank you notes: acts of kindness -- Celebrating being perfectly imperfect -- Let it go box -- Growing resources -- The 5 Gs : be in an attitude of gratitude -- Dream catcher -- Rise strong and be a survivor credo.