Step Into Your Power 23 lessons on how to live your best life

by Pippins, Andrea; Wilson, Jamia

• ISBN13: 9781786035868
• ISBN10: 1786035863
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-03-05
• Publisher: Wide Eyed Editions

Summary

Discover your own inner strength and learn mental resilience; learn how to harness your own power

"You are not alone, even if it feels that way sometimes." – Jamia Wilson

Listen up! You’ve heard about heroes and read about the greats, but maybe you're not feeling so great yourself right now? Learn from the lived experience of author Jamia Wilson and illustrator Andrea Pippins as they mentor you through growing up in the modern world, and teach you how to Step Into Your Power.

In this friendly guide, learn how to look after yourself, 'organise, don't agonise', make good choices, get out of ruts, branch out, shake up your mindset and ask for help. How do you overcome a setback? How do you cope when you or a family member gets sick? How do you change your mindset when you can't change your situation? There's self-care advice and activities on every page you can take and make your very own. 

Take this time to explore what it means to know and trust your insights and capabilities with stories, images, activities, resources and action prompts that you can interact with on your own time and, most importantly, on your terms. 

A warm and friendly growing-up guide, crucial for the time we are living in right now.

Author Biography

Andrea Pippins is an illustrator, designer, and author who has a passion for creating images that reflect what she wants to see in art, media, and pop culture. Her vision is to empower people of color with tools and inspiration to create and tell their own stories. She is the best-selling creator of the coloring book I Love My Hair and the interactive journal Becoming Me. Her clients include O: The Oprah Magazine, Scoop Magazine, Family Circle, The Huffington Post, Bustle, Free People, Lincoln Center, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Andrea is based in Stockholm, Sweden. 

Jamia Wilson joined Random House as an executive editor in 2021, and is the former executive director and publisher of the Feminist Press. An activist and writer, Wilson has contributed to New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Today Show, CNN, BBC, Teen Vogue, Elle, Refinery 29, Rookie, and The Guardian. She is the author of Young Gifted and Black; Baby Young, Gifted, and Black; Step Into Your Power; and Big Ideas for Young Thinkers. She is also a co-author of Road Map for Revolutionaries and wrote the introduction and oral history to Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World.

Table of Contents

Power
You've Got This: Tap into your strengths
Slay Your Fear
Tell the Truth: Saying yes to saying no
Stay intact: hold onto your wholeness. You are enough.
Keel Calm: You belong! Take your rightful place
Define Yourself: Write your own life rules

Community
Lift as you climb: Support your squad
Find a mentor: learn from your heroes
Ask for help: especially when you need it most
Live and let go: dealing with drama and fickle friends

Choices
Take heart and trust your gut
Ask for it: Own what you want
Don't fit in? Pave new ground
Be You, not Perfect

Act!
Speak Truth to Adults
Don't agonize, organize
In a rut? Get unstuck
Branch out: Find your crew

Self-care
Be kind to yourself 
Listen to your body
Dealing with illness
Find the lesson: Bounce back from the dumps, failures and other bummers
Shine brightly without burning out