Growing up isn't always easy - your brain is changing and there's many things to cope with from new emotions to stress. This book explores what is self-esteem and mental health and why it's important and looks at topics such as mental illness, phobias, eating disorders and self-harm. It looks at techniques to deal with issues including stress reduction, mindfulness and assertiveness.

Is is part of the series Healthy for Life, which gives factual information on a range of health issues so teens can get the information they need to be healthy. The books feature fun infographic style illustrations.

This book is part of a book series called Healthy For Life .

This book has been graded for interest at 9-11 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by Hachette Children's Group .

Anna Claybourne has been a writer and editor of children's non-fiction for over eight years.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: The mind and the self
• 1: The brain
• 1: Self-esteem
• 1: Mental health and illness
• 1: Stress
• 1: Depression
• 1: Anxiety
• 1: Food and fitness
• 1: Assertiveness
• 1: Mindfulness
• 1: Talking about it
• 1: Healthy and happy for life
• 1: Endmatter
• 1: Glossary
• 1: Index