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How To Live Mentally Well and Crush it in High School
How To Live Mentally Well and Crush it in High School
How To Live Mentally Well and Crush it in High School
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Part of The i’Mpossible Project’s peer-to-peer series, inside are nine core principles on how to live mentally well in high... and crush it while you’re there.
Eight short chapters on: time management, developing healthy habits, how to unstick when you’re stuck, reframing failure, preparing for college, entering the job market and more.
This book isn’t written by a guru, ninja, or ninja-guru-shaman... just one dude who has been to the edge and back.
If you’re ready to maximize your high school experience... without sacrificing your mental health—you need to read this book!

LanguageEnglish
PublisherJosh Rivedal
Release dateOct 6, 2015
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    How To Live Mentally Well and Crush it in High School - Josh Rivedal

    How to Live Mentally Well and Crush it in High School

    Part of

    Peer-to-Peer Resource Series

    Josh Rivedal

    Skookum Hill Publishing

    Copyright © 2015 by Josh Rivedal and The i’Mpossible Project

    Skookum Hill Publishing

    Editors: Josh Rivedal and Pamela Cangioli

    Book cover design: Benlin Alexander

    Book layout: Josh Rivedal

    For organizational and school licenses for this book, contact tony@skookumhill.com

    How to Live Mentally Well and Crush it in High School/ Josh Rivedal, The i’Mpossible Project -- 1st ed.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Developing Healthy Habits: Putting Your Success on Autopilot

    Volunteering & Giving Back: The Greatest Gift to Give Yourself

    How to Unstick When You’re Stuck: You’ve Been Here Before

    Reframing Failure: I Cannot Fail, Therefore…

    Finding a Healthy Relationship with Work: Comparing Oneself to Another’s Highlight Reel: The Prizes and Pitfalls

    Creating a Support System for Yourself: Faith + Action = A Recipe for Fire

    Prepping for the Workplace: Is There Really Life After High School?: Part I

    Prepping for College: Is There Really Life After High School?: Part II

    Time Management: Making Time Your Friend

    Appendix A: How and Where to Get Help Sample Sheet

    About the Author

    Also by Josh Rivedal

    Introduction

    It’s December 2010, the start of a new decade… and I’m back in college at twenty-six—making it happen, taking the bull by the horns, and thinking of other exciting clichés that applied to my life.

    More than anything, I was ready for a change. In the previous fifteen months, I had some of the most calamitous fortunes in the history of calamity. My father took his own life, my mother betrayed me over my father’s inheritance, my girlfriend of six years left me, I lost out on a big role singing on Broadway, and Ugly Betty got canceled by ABC (okay, maybe that last one wasn’t so bad). If I could get through all that, what else could go wrong?

    Um… everything.

    In January of 2011, I started experiencing signs of what I later discovered was depression. I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t sleep, and thoughts of suicide swirled around inside my head all day long. And worse—I couldn’t shake off the suicidal thoughts, no matter how hard I tried. After nearly making an attempt on my life…

    I Finally

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