Learning to Love the Girl in the Mirror: A Teenage Girl's Guide to Living a Happy and Healthy Life

Our daughter 13 loves the book and she hugs it even. She read half way through in two days and she says it makes her feel great every time she reads in it.I personally didn’t read it or go through it but I trust her judgment cause she is very analytical and doesn’t take anything for it’s face value.

What did I like about this book? Everything. From the moment I opened the package from Amazon I could feel the positivity coming from this book, despite the fact that it is dealing with very deep and delicate issues facing teenage girls and young women today. I love the author's youthfulness, openness and honesty and her very upbeat way of telling her story. The book gets right down into very sensitive, tender and nitty-gritty areas of a young woman's life in a very insightful, honest and trustworthy way. As the parent of two pre-teen girls, I know I will keep coming back to it again and again for guidance.I think that young women will love the quotes from popular female icons and the way the author offers advice in a very relatable and non-preachy way. The research is also very impressive and up-to-date, which adds to the trustworthy feel that I get from this book. I also loved the pace, the energy and the momentum of the way it is written. It is a real page turner and I wish it had been around when I was a teenager.

This book has helped me to see the way we are programmed by society to criticise our own bodies and to compare ourselves negatively to celebrities and other people on social media. This book inspires us to stand up for ourselves instead of allowing ourselves to be victims of other people’s expectations of how we should look, or how our lives should be. And the exercises show us exactly how to do it. I find them very empowering. This book has definitely changed the way I think and feel about myself. I recommend it, not only for teenagers, but for every single female who has ever looked in the mirror and criticised herself, or thought she was not good enough. It’s a real confidence booster.

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This book is great for teenage girls, but also for women of any age who look in the mirror and criticise themselves, which is pretty much every woman I know. It has great information about stress and the effects they have on our bodies and this is conveyed in a way that is easy to understand and memorable because of the way the author relates it to her own story. There is a real feel-good factor to this book, and the fact that it is written by a young woman not long out of her teens makes it very refreshing and relatable. I’m definitely going to buy this book for all the women I care about.

Wow!Reading this book as a mother and someone who works in education really opened my eyes in many ways .Not only did it bring tears to my eyes seeing how young girls and also young boys feel they have so much to live up to regarding magazines and also some sports it reminded me of my own body issues (I did not have eating issues but I deffently had what I thought was a friend called "Liitle Miss Crictial")Oh how I wish I had a book like this one which gives you techniques into beliving in yourself more.I also think it will help family members/ friends to support someone going through these issues

What an inspirational and uplifting book for teenage girls. My wife says she wished it had been around when she was a teenager. We would also encourage parents of teenage girls to read it to get an understanding of the pressures their daughters are facing from many different sources. Each chapter s filled with empowering, confidence-boosting techniques to help young women to develop into the strong, happy, powerful women of the future. HIghly recommended *****

A very well written book which is easy to read and thought provoking for all age groups.It is pitched particularly well for teenage girls who should find comfort and guidance from the personal experiences of this young lady who can truly relate to the negative and destructive elements of the "modern" world in which we live and translate it into positivity.