This is one of those resources that gets you thinking about the things you’ve been taught to consider normal. The prompts are thoughtful, direct and give you plenty of room to examine your own experiences rather than telling you what you should think. I especially appreciated the questions around what women are taught to tolerate, what it means to be “good” and how those expectations can shape our choices. There’s a lot here to reflect on and return to.
Uppity Negress
Choosing Myself: A Boundaries & Self-Respect Guided Journal for Teen Girls Paperback
Choosing Myself: A Boundaries & Self-Respect Guided Journal for Teen Girls Paperback
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Choosing Myself: A Boundaries & Self-Respect Journal for Teen Girls
Choosing Myself is a guided self-reflection journal for teen girls learning how to build boundaries, self-respect, confidence, and healthier relationships.
Growing up as a girl comes with a lot of pressure. Girls are often taught to be nice, stay quiet, keep the peace, make everyone comfortable, and ignore their own discomfort to avoid being called dramatic, mean, selfish, or difficult.
This journal offers a different message.
Through guided exercises, reflection prompts, real-life scenarios, and affirmations, Choosing Myself helps teen girls explore identity, friendship, self-worth, peer pressure, boundaries, consent, dating, social media, emotional safety, and the power of trusting themselves.
This journal is about learning how to listen to yourself, respect your own limits, and choose relationships that do not require you to shrink.
Inside, teen girls will practice how to:
- name what feels uncomfortable instead of ignoring it
- recognize the difference between kindness and people-pleasing
- set boundaries without guilt
- understand consent, privacy, and personal space
- navigate friendships, conflict, and peer pressure
- build confidence that is not based on being chosen
- question harmful messages from social media
- trust their instincts and honor their own voice
- choose self-respect even when it disappoints others
Choosing Myself is ideal for teen girls, parents, caregivers, counselors, therapists, mentors, educators, youth workers, and anyone looking for a practical, reflective tool to support confidence, emotional growth, boundaries, and healthier relationships.
Being liked by everyone is not the goal.
The goal is becoming a girl who knows herself, respects herself, and refuses to abandon herself just to belong.
Product Details
Title: Choosing Myself: A Boundaries & Self-Respect Journal for Teen Girls
Author: Kiki Bryant, The Uppity Negress
Format: Guided journal
Length: 150+ pages
Best for: Teen girls, families, counselors, therapists, mentors, educators, and youth programs
Themes: Boundaries, self-respect, confidence, friendship, consent, dating, emotional safety, peer pressure, identity, and healthy relationships
