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If you struggle with negative thoughts and emotions, you should know that your pain is real. No one should try to diminish it. Sometimes stuff really does suck and we have to acknowledge it. Worry, sadness, loneliness, anger, and shame are big and important, but they can also get in the way of what really matters. What if, instead of fighting your pain, you realized what really matters to you--and put those things first in life? If you did that, maybe your pain wouldn't feel so big anymore. Isn't it worth a try? Stuff That Sucks offers a compassionate and validating guide to accepting emotions, rather than struggling against them. You'll learn to figure out what you care about the most and prioritize your thoughts, feelings, and values. The skills you'll learn are based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). Yes, there are a few written exercises, but this isn't a workbook. It's a journey into the stuff that sucks, what makes that sucky stuff suck even more, and how just a few moments each day with the stuff that matters will ultimately transform the stuff that sucks into stuff that is just stuff. Make sense? Maybe you want to be more creative, do better in school, or be a better friend? This book will show you how to focus on what you really care about, so that all that other sucky stuff doesn't seem so, well, sucky anymore.

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Ben Sedley is a clinical psychologist and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) practitioner with over fifteen years of experience working with adolescents and families facing mental health difficulties. Sedley's research and practice has focused on examining children and young people's understanding of mental health, which has helped guide him on the best ways to explain mental health concepts and ACT to young people. Zac Katz-Stein loves light bulb moments. Exploring, organizing, and sharing insights through language propelled him through college as an English literature major and early adulthood as a writer. However, the seed of his obsession with language was planted by audio cassettes on family road trips. As long as an audiobook was playing, he was a happy camper (or passenger). Now, he's thrilled to get to work as an audiobook narrator and producer. It feels like coming home. When he's not recording audio, he's probably teaching yoga, running games of Dungeons & Dragons, or futilely trying to tire out his golden retriever, Amaroq. Zac Katz-Stein loves light bulb moments. Exploring, organizing, and sharing insights through language propelled him through college as an English literature major and early adulthood as a writer. However, the seed of his obsession with language was planted by audio cassettes on family road trips. As long as an audiobook was playing, he was a happy camper (or passenger). Now, he's thrilled to get to work as an audiobook narrator and producer. It feels like coming home. When he's not recording audio, he's probably teaching yoga, running games of Dungeons & Dragons, or futilely trying to tire out his golden retriever, Amaroq.

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