Cover of How to Be You: Stop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your Life

How to Be You: Stop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your Life

This book is about how to finally give up on feeling bad about ourselves and discover the best person we can be.

An interactive experience, How to Be Youinvites you to make the book your own through activities such as coloring in charts, answering questions about how you do the things you do, and discovering patterns in your lives that may be holding you back. Through Jeffrey's own story of "growing up fabulous in a small farming town"—along with the stories of hero/ines who have transcended the stereotypes of race, age, and gender—you will discover that you are not alone, can deepen your relationship with yourself, and find the courage to take a leap that will change your life.

Subject
self-help
Genre
LGBT
Mood
inspirational
Audience
young adult
Length
short · 190 pages

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