Your Mind Flashlight: A User’s Guide
Take Control of Your Thoughts to Feel the Way You Want
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Please take a moment to quiet the busy world around you… Breathe deeply… exhale… then complete this next sentence: “If I had a magic wand and could bestow anything onto the young people in my life it would be ___________.” Did you say for him/her/they TO BE HAPPY? I’m not usually a betting woman, but I’d bet dollars to doughnuts you did… along with the majority of the other parents, teachers and mentors reading this introduction. But here’s the harder question. Ready? What does it MEAN to BE HAPPY? Can I offer a suggested definition? Try this on for size and see if it fits you… “Happiness means feeling confident with and accepting myself for who I am (faults, strengths and everything in between) and having the ability to take on life challenges with resilience while being joyfully present to and grateful of all the good that life brings.” It’s a big all encompassing idea of happiness… a “one size fits all” kind of thing. If that definition of happiness resonates with you and you want that for your kids, this book is kind of like that magic wand we were imagining earlier. This book can help your child use their brain to empower themselves to feel confident and see the good while dealing with the bad. It can do the same for you. There is no age limitation. I developed the MIND FLASHLIGHT concept while raising my son. He’s a glass half-empty kind of kid. I wanted to give him tools to feel empowered and in control of his thoughts and feelings, especially when the challenges of late elementary and middle school reared their heads. I wanted to give him some tools he could use to empower himself and in the process, help him to NOT see himself as a victim or feel as one. This was a tall order due to some anxiety issues and how our developing brains are naturally wired to focus on the negatives and risks in life. But here’s the thing – with this MIND FLASHLIGHT tool, he is managing his anxiety and his negative thoughts. He is more positive (or in some cases, at least more neutral) and feels more empowered and in control of his thoughts, his feelings and his life. This shift in outlook changed everything. I encourage you to read on and share this with your kid(s). I hope you find it as useful as I and my son do.
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About the Book
Written for young people but useful to all ages, Your Mind Flashlight: A User’s Guide is an engagingly fun and powerfully useful guide to help those who read it understand and harness the power they have over their thoughts, their feelings, and their life. Using easy-to-understand concepts, age-appropriate examples and fun graphics, Your Mind Flashlight: A User’s Guide helps young people and the adults who love them understand the powerful connection between our thoughts and our feelings; and how our feelings direct us in making the many small and big choices we face daily. Help the young people in your life develop the tools to • take control over their thoughts, • take responsibility of their feelings, • strengthen their confidence, • build their resiliency, and • craft the life they want to live. There is no age limit to the short, simple, and effective messages and tools included in Your Mind Flashlight: A User’s Guide.
About the Author
Stephanie Lambert has been many things to many people, as most women and mothers are. Besides all the roles she plays as mom (referee, therapist, personal chef, gardener, tutor, housekeeper, chauffer…) she’s been a high school teacher, a life coach, an amateur drummer, a professional dog walker, a blogger and is the founder of The BOLD Moms, a movement focused on encouraging moms (and their kids) to live their lives in BOLD. And now, we can add author to this list. Stephanie lives in Redmond, Washington with her husband, her two sons and her chocolate German Shepherd, Lola. She loves walking her dog, reading a good book, improving her drumming game, brunching with girlfriends and anytime spent at Diamond Lake in Eastern Washington with her family.