Mental Health Resource: You Are Not Alone by Jennie Allen

 

This book is worth reading to support your thoughts that spiral out of control. It’s worth reading with your 8-12-year-old daughter. I would discuss as you go otherwise the first few chapters explaining what spiraling thoughts are could give ideas to an anxious kid beyond their own. So Start Together, by part 2, is a manual explaining and defining feelings and then biblically informed concepts to battle the spiral.

These are my notes with the Power Statement each chapter opens with and the content of that chapter.  The book ends with a toolkit appendix. 

I would have preferred more brain research like in the adult version of You Are Out of Control. And stronger connections from the start to the gospel, believing in and knowing who God is. But it’s there, I just wanted a different order.

I had no idea what to expect of this book.  Out of Your Head was a favorite of mine, and Untangle Your Emotions disappointed me.  But I was thrilled to find this book a solid tool for its audience of 8-12-year-olds and their parents.  Adults will benefit from the toolkit for handling thoughts with excellent ways to live better!

Thanks net-galley for a pre-release! It is worth owning! The reader is interacted with and assigned appropriate tasks to process personally!

A few images to give you some details: 

Strategies in the first chapter

This is a battle but God equips you with weapons, 
like having a choice!

The Reader is taught that she can face lies with the Truth.  The truth is the Word of God.  The author teaches that most untrue things that spiral in our head, we tell ourselves focus on these three thoughts.  Being helpless, worthless, or unlovable. 

She also teaches that our thoughts drive our emotions and this controls how we act.  I know this is true because the book of James explains this clearly.  The author didn't tell the reader that directly, and I wished she had made more direct connections.