Book Review This book gives valuable, healthful information girls need to stay safe during teenage years while developing their sense of self and womanhood in the midst of encroaching negative culture. The values Wildheart brings to this new culture are: self worth and self confidence; enfranchisement; capacity to struggle effectively and the capacity to tolerate ambiguity; inner peace and strength; balance of lifestyle; wisdom; and above all else, self preservation through healthy choice making. Wildheart books, like the brand, use creative and spiritually grounded ways to inspire readers with sound information for healthy living. One way this book accomplishes this is by identifying healthy metaphors for living starting as far back as ancient myths, and tapping into today’s cultures by identifying healthy modern myths and icons, meanwhile singling out unhealthy metaphors and messages brought to girl culture usually through TV, media, and other forms of media and advertising.

Wildheart stands on the belief that all our individual and community needs are met through a higher power which is available to us all the time. To support healthy culture and self preservation, and point girls in the healthy direction, Wildheart has identified certain practices what we also call keys. These spiritual practices, or keys, are designed to help readers cultivate the values listed above. But rather than just tell what to do, Wildheart wants more for their readers, we want you to have the opportunity to gain wisdom from women now in their mid-to-late twenties who experienced many of the same things teens and younger girls experience today. It is through twenty-somethings’ personal stories that will make the greatest positive impression on readers, motivating them to discover who they are and internalize healthy practices for healthy choice-making going forward.

What’s so amazing about Wildheart as a company is that we pull knowledge from ancient practices, but at the same time, we turn it around and make products that are cutting edge. We do this in our Wildheart guides by marrying personal memoir and self help genres to create a new model of inspirational nonfiction specifically designed for Gen X and Y readers. We understand these bright individuals enjoy information through experience. It has been proven that the testimonial is the most healing, cathartic, and empowering medium. In this Wildheart’s Guide for teens, the twenty-somethings’ personal stories will help the girls know they are not alone and they, too, will thrive these experiences.

In this book, topics will cover: love, relationships, sex, pregnancy; teen stress and depression; eating disorders and healthy dietary needs; divorce; surviving family members, death, cancer; global catastrophe, terrorism, natural disasters; global citizenry, humanitarian relief; clash of religions and cultures; awareness, environmental, political, media and its messages and effects on girls, careers out there, how to find a mentor; online culture and its effects.