The Mindful Twenty-Something: Life Skills to Handle Stress…and Everything Else

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• 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

  
  Great guide to mindful living, December 5, 2016

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  Paul V –

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  I have a potential conflict of interest here, being a Koru teacher in training, but I found this a wonderful manual/guide for a beginning mindfulness practice. It can be read as a 4-week training program in meditation and other mindfulness practices for young people just setting out, but it can also be read as a broader guide to how live your life more mindfully. It strikes a sweet balance between being practical (well, how exactly do you meditate and all that?) and touching on some of the deeper underlying attitudes of the practice — non-judgmentality, integrity, kindness, self-compassion, authenticity, wisdom, personal inquiry, and what mindfulness can open you up to in relationships and generally in dealing with others. Holly is a very straight-forward writer, very matter-of-fact (more Salzberg than Kabat-Zinn, if that means anything to you). She is also very open to sharing her own story and that of her students, which makes the book very relatable and inspiring. The little sidebars on the scientific background of some of the claims are a nice added boon.
• 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

  
  My college students raved about this book., April 5, 2017

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  Roxanne Stoehr –

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  I just finished teaching a Koru class to twenty-something year old college students. The author of the book, Dr. Holly Rogers, co-founded the Center for Koru Mindfulness, which trains people to teach Koru mindfulness. This book accompanies the Koru class – the students read the book throughout the class. All of my students who took the class raved about this book. They said that it was easy and fun to read and that it motivated them to meditate! They also reported that it helped them to more fully understand mindfulness and it promoted their state of mindfulness. The book was written for “emerging adults” but as a Baby Boomer, I loved it, too! I am going to gift it to my twenty-something year old son. It’s a gem in the mindfulness literature.
• 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

  
  Really great book for anyone age 18-20’s, January 29, 2017

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  Janice –

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  Really great book for anyone age 18-20’s. I would recommend this book to anyone who is stressed out with finding their purpose in life or anyone with anxiety/depression. This book is a very easy read with a lot of great quotes to contemplate and to use going forward in life. I find myself going back and back again to re-read chapters when I need a refresher.

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