Book overview
Dr. Alfiee, a global leader in youth mental health, delivers the ultimate youth mental health guide-packed with simple, memorable concepts you can actually use in real time to care for your emotional wellbeing.
Rise and Thrive is your space to step into your power, embrace your brilliance, and rise-no matter what life throws your way. Designed for teens and young adults (inclusive of all identities), this book combines Dr. Alfiee's 30 years of research, clinical work, and community advocacy into an easy-to-use roadmap for emotional wellness and real-world resilience.
Not just another workbook-Rise and Thrive gives you practical support for the moments you feel anxious, unseen, or overwhelmed. Each chapter offers bite-size "mindset remixes" you can remember on the spot, plus reflection prompts and coping tools that actually fit your life, culture, and community.
Whether you're figuring out who you are, navigating school or work, dealing with family and friendships, or just trying to make it through the day, we invite you to reflect, act, and reconnect with your truest, strongest self.
What you'll find:
- Culture, Community, and You
- Depression, Stress, and Anxiety 101
- Real-Life Coping Skills Rooted in YOUR Culture
Fun and easy skill building:
- Easy-to-read explanations of what mental health is and how to care for it in everyday life
- Active coping skills you can use when you feel stressed, anxious, or down
- Journal prompts that help you go deeper, reflect, and grow at your own pace
Promoting confidence, self-care, and growth, this workbook is a wonderful resource for young people of color looking for tools to take care of their mental health. Dr. Alfiee embraces our identities and diveristy to create a shining example of what inclusive and relevent mental health care should look like. - Amira Jackson, Second-Year Honors Psychology Major at Howard University
In Rise and Thrive, Dr. Breland-Noble offers the next generation of youth tangible tools for self-exploration, identity formation, and mental health. With accessible frameworks and introspective exercises and prompts, Dr. Breland-Noble gently invites young readers to be intentional with their inner lives and to take action in their real-life experiences. What a gift! - Dr. Jenny Tzu-Mei Wang Psychologist, Author of Permission to Come Home
