Overview

Discover Your Self covers how various internal influences such as the brain, emotions, mind/body, psyche, and morals interact to form one’s sense of self. After an introduction to the series, the four main characters are introduced. Steve, Nicki, Harrison and Taylor further help teens learn more about who they are by providing a vicarious learning opportunity. (Some information is easier to comprehend and relate to when it is happening to someone else!) After learning about the various internal influences of a teen’s life, teens move on to the external influences in Book Two.

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Topics to be covered

Brain & Body

  • Brain development
  • Habit formation
  • Reactions vs. responses
  • Gender body differences
  • Puberty Changes
  • Body acceptance
  • Body Signals

Emotions & Psyche

  • Emotional awareness
  • Emotional management
  • Expressing Emotions
  • Linking emotions
    and thoughts
  • Thinking errors
  • Self-esteem
  • Compentence

Morals & Mind/Body

  • Developing morals
  • Principles and character
  • Codes of conduct
  • “The Right Thing”
  • Stress
  • Nurtrition
  • Exercise

Table of Contents

  1. Who Are You?
  2. First Quiz
  3. Meet Your Characters

  1. Test Drive
  2. What are synapses and why might you care
  3. Habits
  4. The difference between a reaction and a response
  5. Understanding those emotional outbursts
  6. Your car wash and personal detailing
  7. Your self summary

  1. Test Drive
  2. The Difference between an emotion and a feeling
  3. Emotions are energy!
  4. How to create emotional awareness
  5. How to manage your emotions
  6. Positive expression of your emotions
  7. Your car wash and personal detailing
  8. Your self summary

  1. Test Drive
  2. What are you thinking?
  3. Common Thinking errors
  4. Feeling competent and building self-esteem
  5. Your car wash and personal detailing
  6. Your self summary

  1. How do your morals develop and what influences them?
  2. Morals + principles + values = character
  3. What is your code of conduct?
  4. What is “the right thing?”
  5. Advice when moral dilemmas happen
  6. How morals shape your future
  7. Your car wash and personal detailing
  8. Your self summary

  1. Puberty: A quick recap
  2. Are you accepting your new body?
  3. What messages about yourself are you sending?
  4. Your car wash and personal detailing
  5. Your self summary

  1. Test Drive
  2. Thoughts-words-deeds
  3. Stress
  4. Nutrition
  5. Your car wash and personal detailing
  6. Your self summary

  1. First Quiz
  2. Your self summary
  3. Life-line