Neurodiversity for Teen Girls: Shine Bright as You Embrace Your Brain, Your Emotions, and Your Life

Shine bright as you embrace your unique brain, understand your emotions, and live your best life!

The teen years are a delicate balance of self-exploration, managing expectations, and establishing your independent identity. Being neurodivergent in a neurotypical world adds a layer of complexity--it may feel like everyone got an instruction manual but you! Plus, the societal pressures of being raised as a girl are often contradictory, dismissive of your experiences, and result in your mental health needs being missed. If you are finding it hard to navigate all these pressures and big changes, this book is for you!

This teen-friendly guide offers clear and direct tools to help you understand your unique experiences, balance the difficulties and the strengths of neurodiversity, feel more confident in your identity, and live authentically. Written by a neurodivergent therapist and expert in teen mental health, you'll find simple strategies to help you express difficult emotions, manage sensory stuff, and deal with daily social dynamics. You'll also learn all about neurodiversity, and discover ways to advocate for yourself in neurotypical spaces.

Use this empowering guide to:

• Understand what neurodiversity is--and how it presents for you!
• Gain skills to help you navigate school, friends, and life
• Manage sensory experiences
• Identify masking so you can choose when and how to safely unmask

No matter where you are on your journey--whether you have already been diagnosed, are self-identified, or you suspect you might be neurodivergent--this comprehensive (and fun!) guide has everything you need to understand and embrace who you are, now and into the future.

Jamie D. Roberts, LMFT, (she/her) is a licensed marriage and family therapist with lived experience as Autistic, ADHD, dyslexic, and neuroqueer. She is author of Mindfulness for Teen Anxiety, a practical guide to manage stress, ease worry, and find calm. Jamie is founder of NeuroPebble, a neurodiversity affirming training program, and founder of Equilibrium Counseling Services, a teen mental health center in California. She is known as the Neurodivergent Therapist throughout social media, and is an active speaker on neurodivergent and teen topics with the goal of becoming who she needed when she was younger. She loves to paint, collect crystals, and spend time with her cats, Zeus and Athena.