The Kid's User Guide to a Human Life Book One: An Open Mindoffers ten- to fifteen-year-olds fun, practical information and skills on how to live a life with less stress and more joy. Through educationalillustrations and inspiring text, kids are encouraged to take control of their own mental and emotional wellbeing.

Rebecca Brenner has spent the last fourteen years, personally and professionally, doing just this. Through her integrative health consulting business sheworks with individuals, families, and community organizations to create lasting wellness plans that encourage healthy, happy living. In her popular yogaand meditation classes she teaches mindfulness techniques to everyone from nine to eighty-nine years old. She also consults with parents on how to developand encourage healthy habits for their children and families.

The Kid's User Guide to a Human Life Book One: An Open Mindis short, inspiring, and fun to read. With fifty illustrations, it focuses on how the brain and nervous system take in information and directions from theinternal chatter of the mind. Most kids (and adults) are unaware of how repetitive and negative their own internal chatter can be. When left unchecked,this internal chatter can wreak havoc on their health and life.

The Kid's User Guide to a Human Life Book One: An Open Mindwill share how easy it is to be mindful of habitual mind chatter and how doing so creates a spacious, open quality of mind and life. Kids will learn toquestion what their mind is saying about themselves and others and how to hold lovingly what they find in the clearness of their own open mind. There is nobetter way to throw open the doors and adventure confidently and joyously into a happy and healthy life!