The Self-Esteem Team's Guide to Sex, Drugs and WTFs?!!
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With a foreword by Zoella<br><br>Sometimes being a teenager can seem like a relentless merry-go-round of people telling you how to dress and behave, who to be friends with, what grades you must get in order to avoid a destiny of failure and, most importantly, why you’re spectacularly effing it all up.<br><br>The Self-Esteem Team know this – because they were teenagers once. Obvs. In fact, they were teenagers enduring bullying, chronic skin issues, ‘puppy fat’ that refused to budge and ‘I’m different from everyone else’-related angst. Later, they battled self-harm, depression and an eating disorder.<br><br>That’s why the Self-Esteem Team started travelling the UK: to give teenagers the tools they need to navigate life on their own terms. Natasha Devon, Grace Barrett and Nadia Mendoza – now a successful journalist, singer/ songwriter and showbiz editor respectively – have worked with more than 50,000 young people helping them tackle mental health, self-esteem and body-image issues.<br><br>This book contains everything you really want to know, but are too embarrassed to ask your teachers, from ‘How do I know if I’m healthy?’ to ‘What’s it like to take drugs?’<br><br>They won’t tell you that if you have sex you’ll definitely get an STI and die, but they will help you decide if you’re ready. They won’t tell you never to watch porn, but they will help you decipher what you see. They won’t ask you not to embrace fashion, fitness or beauty, but they will give you the info you need to rock your own brand of gorgeous.<br><br>This book gives you everything you need to be the best version of you.
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Grace Barrett Natasha Devon & Nadia Mendoza. The Self-Esteem Team's Guide to Sex, Drugs and WTFs?!!
CONTENTS
FOREWORD BY ZOELLA
ABOUT THIS BOOK
INTRODUCING THE SELF-ESTEEM TEAM
TASH
GRACE
NADZ
IF I HAVE HIGH SELF-ESTEEM, WILL I BECOME ARROGANT?
GRACE
NADZ
TASH
I DON’T FEEL ‘RIGHT’
NADZ
TASH
GRACE
HOW DO I KNOW IF I’M HEALTHY?
TASH
BMI
MINDFUL EATING
EXERCISE
PROTEIN POWDERS/ENERGY DRINKS
ORTHOREXIA
BODY CONFIDENCE
CONCLUSION
I HATE MY _______
TASH
NADZ
I FEEL LIKE I’M DIFFERENT FROM EVERYONE ELSE – HELP!
GRACE
NADZ
WHAT ARE THE CHANCES SOMETHING BAD WILL HAPPEN?
TASH
NADZ
THINGS NO ONE TELLS YOU ABOUT DRUGS
WHAT’S IT LIKE TO TAKE DRUGS? NADZ
Weed
Amphetamines
Hallucinogens
‘Legal’ Highs
Comedowns
WHAT ARE PEOPLE LIKE ON DRUGS? GRACE
WHY DO PEOPLE TAKE DRUGS? TASH
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PORN AND REAL SEX?
TASH
SEXTING… GOOD IDEA?
GRACE
SKIN
GRACE
CONFIDENCE
SOLUTIONS
CONCLUSION
WHAT’S THE BEST WAY TO HANDLE BULLIES?
NADZ
MY SCHOOL WON’T LET ME _________. IS THAT FAIR?
TASH
WHAT SHOULD I SAY IF I’M WORRIED ABOUT A FRIEND?
NADZ
GRACE
TASH
HOW DO I KNOW IF I HAVE AN EATING DISORDER?
TASH
WHAT SHOULD I DO IF I’M BEING COPIED?
NADZ
BFFs?
TASH
EVERYONE’S DOING IT…
GRACE
AM I READY FOR SEX?
TASH
IF I TELL SOMEONE, WHAT WILL HAPPEN?
NADZ
TELLING PARENTS AND PROFESSIONALS
HOW DO I GET MORE CONFIDENCE?
NADZ
BYE!
TASH
NADZ
GRACE
TASH
FURTHER SOURCES OF HELP AND INFORMATION
Copyright
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Dedicated to the 50,000 teenagers we’ve worked
with since 2008, who are the actual experts.
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Hello! I’m Grace and I grew up as an eczema-ridden, mixed-race freak (freaky because in the 1990s in Stoke-on-Trent there were next to no people ‘of colour’ – in my school, my brother and I made up the lion’s share). My mum had to make the decision to shave my head because I’d pulled great lumps of hair out while scratching my scalp in the night (yum) and I was wrapped in bandages a lot of the time due to the skin condition. I also had a speech impediment (that made me pronounce my name ‘Gwayth’) and feet that turned inwards. Oddly enough, these differences never really made me a target for bullies but I did feel agonisingly alone and hyper aware of every confused look thrown in my direction, which added to my feelings of isolation.
I always knew that I would be a performer and, in my head, that meant becoming someone who had perfect skin, long flowing locks and loads of people around just like me, which would help me fit in. I didn’t think about how I’d get there or the stuff in between, I just assumed that it would happen.
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