The Response Training Series — Book 1 Your Alarm Isn't Broken
An Anxiety Workbook for Teens Who Hate Workbooks
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Honest, calming books about anxiety — for teens figuring out how to breathe through it all.
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The Response Training Series
Short, honest workbooks for teens who can't stand workbooks — a trilogy, one feeling at a time.
The Response Training Series — Book 1 $14.99 
The Response Training Series — Book 2 Your Awkward Isn't Showing
A Social Anxiety Workbook for Teens Who Hate Workbooks
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The Response Training Series — Book 3 Your Pressure Isn't Proof
A Performance Anxiety Workbook for Teens Who Hate Workbooks
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I wrote the books I needed at fifteen.
I was the kid with the racing heart before every class, certain everyone could tell. It took me years — and a lot of help — to learn that anxiety isn't a flaw to fix, but a feeling to understand.
Now I write calm, honest books for teens who feel the same way. No lectures, no toxic positivity — just the tools and the company I wish I'd had back then.
More about me →What readers tell me
I finished it in two sittings and felt like someone finally got it. I've reread the panic chapter more times than I can count.
The first book I hand to anxious students that they actually come back and thank me for.
My son left it on my pillow with a sticky note: 'this is how I feel.' It opened a door we couldn't find before.
I keep it in my backpack like a security blanket. The breathing pages got me through finals week.
Finally a book about anxiety that doesn't talk down to teenagers. My whole class is passing it around.
I underlined almost every page. It felt like a friend who had been exactly where I was.
As a therapist I recommend it constantly. It does in 150 pages what takes me months to explain.
My daughter actually started talking to me about her worries after reading this. That is everything.
I thought I was the only one whose brain did this. Turns out I am really, really not.
Honest without being heavy. I laughed, I cried, I felt less alone at 2 a.m.
We read a chapter together every Sunday. It has become our little ritual.
It did not try to fix me. It just sat with me, and somehow that helped the most.
I finished it in two sittings and felt like someone finally got it. I've reread the panic chapter more times than I can count.
The first book I hand to anxious students that they actually come back and thank me for.
My son left it on my pillow with a sticky note: 'this is how I feel.' It opened a door we couldn't find before.
I keep it in my backpack like a security blanket. The breathing pages got me through finals week.
Finally a book about anxiety that doesn't talk down to teenagers. My whole class is passing it around.
I underlined almost every page. It felt like a friend who had been exactly where I was.
As a therapist I recommend it constantly. It does in 150 pages what takes me months to explain.
My daughter actually started talking to me about her worries after reading this. That is everything.
I thought I was the only one whose brain did this. Turns out I am really, really not.
Honest without being heavy. I laughed, I cried, I felt less alone at 2 a.m.
We read a chapter together every Sunday. It has become our little ritual.
It did not try to fix me. It just sat with me, and somehow that helped the most.
Stay in touch
A little calm, in your inbox.
Once in a while I send a quiet note — news about new books, gentle reminders, and the odd small thing that helped me breathe. That's all.
No spam, ever. Just a few good words — and full permission to exhale.