BOOK REVIEW
Unleash: Free Your Mind, Live Fully and Achieve Your Dreams
by Daniele Clark
Reviewer
Marg McKay, ACA Member
Unleash: Free Your Mind, Live Fully and Achieve Your Dreams” is an anxiety journal developed to assist children aged between 8 – 12 years of age by giving them a chance to work through the challenges that living in today’s society presents.
This book is a great, easy read for young people and aims to help them to understand who they are and why they may react the way they do to certain situations. Clarke explains how to manage feelings and anxiety through stepping through what anxiety is and ways to use anxiety to your benefit. She also explains through neuroscience how the parts of the brain trigger these feelings.
It also assists parents in helping their children navigate the many issues that affect young people, and is a fantastic tool for parents to work through with their child.
All young people, as do adults, experience levels of anxiety throughout their lives. This book provides pathways for dealing with these emotions and not allowing them to take over your life.
“Unleash” is the result of extensive research and presents the most recent facts on dealing with anxiety for children. It is offered in a format that young people would embrace and showcases engaging illustrations to provide a visual story alongside the text.
It provides children with references that they can go back to at any time and revisit. The book doesn’t just talk about anxiety but provides strategies for young people to learn to assist them throughout their lives. A winner of the non-fiction for young readers (8-12) at the Reader Views Awards and a finalist at the Book Excellence Awards, this is a resource supporting by science and mental health practitioners that can
With more understanding of anxiety, young people can work towards a holistic and healthy future.
Book Details
Title: Unleash: Free your mind, live fully and achieve your dreams.
Author: Daniele Clarke
ISBN: ISBN-10 1922757144 and ISBN-13 978-1922757142
Publisher: Ocean Reeve Publishing
Publication Date: 20 April 2023