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    A Ninety-Day Empowerment Journal for Young Women: Learn to Affirm Daily Self-Love, Self-Confidence, and Self-Brilliance
    A Ninety-Day Empowerment Journal for Young Women: Learn to Affirm Daily Self-Love, Self-Confidence, and Self-Brilliance
    A Ninety-Day Empowerment Journal for Young Women: Learn to Affirm Daily Self-Love, Self-Confidence, and Self-Brilliance
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    A Ninety-Day Empowerment Journal for Young Women: Learn to Affirm Daily Self-Love, Self-Confidence, and Self-Brilliance

    By Gwendolyn L. Cooke PhD

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    This guide for girls and young women ages thirteen to twenty-one tears down the negative images presented in various media of African American youth and young adults.

    While its intended to be read with an adult mentor, it can also be used by individuals who want to grow and develop on their own.

    If youre a young female, youll engage in fun activities, including:

    Listen to Stevie Wonders song Isnt She Lovely, and then, using the letters of lovely, write a meaning for each letter to describe what is lovely about you.

    Read the poems Mother to Son by Langston Hughes and Still I Rise by Maya Angelou, and explain how encouragement is defined in each poem.

    Read 10 Challenges That American Women Still Face Today on the Ms. magazine website, and list three challenges you face now or are likely to face in the future.

    Youll also learn how journal writing can be an appropriate strategy for problem solving when talking it out with a friend, parent, or other adult doesnt seem possible.

    Change the way you look at yourself, others, and life with A Ninety-Day Empowerment Journal for Young Women.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJul 8, 2015
    ISBN9781491768365
    A Ninety-Day Empowerment Journal for Young Women: Learn to Affirm Daily Self-Love, Self-Confidence, and Self-Brilliance
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    Gwendolyn L. Cooke PhD

    Gwendolyn J. Cooke, PhD is a retired educator who remains committed to advocating for children of the poor who, too often, fall through the cracks. She’s also the author of two books for adults: Keys to Success for Urban School Principals and Look Up: Images in the Classroom.

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      A Ninety-Day Empowerment Journal for Young Women - Gwendolyn L. Cooke PhD

      Copyright © 2015 Gwendolyn J. Cooke, PhD

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the Holy Bible, King James Version (Authorized Version). First published in 1611. Quoted from the KJV Classic Reference Bible, Copyright © 1983 by The Zondervan Corporation.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4917-6835-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-6837-2 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-6836-5 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2015908361

      iUniverse rev. date: 06/27/2015

      Contents

      Foreword

      Preface

      Introduction

         Messages to Users of this Journal

      A. For Adult Mentors

      1. Mentoring

      2. Use of the Internet

      3. Access to a Computer

      4. Facilitation Instructions

      B. Teenagers and Young Adults

      1. Lessons in this Journal

      2. Journal Entries and Reflections

      3. Writing a Daily Journal

      4. The Ninety-Day Challenge

      5. A Gratitude Journal

      6. Affirmations

      7. Journal Format

         Journal Entries and Reflections

      Part 1. Love Yourself

      Part 2. Create Positive Relationships

      Part 3. You and Your Future

      Resources

      Bibliography

      To My Parents and My Teachers

      To my parents and teachers who taught me

      To be peaceful, loving, generous,

      Grateful and thoughtful of others’ needs.

      Indeed, I have been blessed with the ability to see the glass

      As half-full in the midst of tremendous odds. That lesson alone

      Compels me to lift others as I continue to climb.

      Much is required

      Mentors continue to teach me that:

      Whoever has been given much will be responsible for much. Much more will be expected from the one who has been given more.

      Luke 12:47 (KJV)

      To adolescent young women

      Additionally, this journal is dedicated to adolescent young women who are courageous enough to commit to using this journal for 90 consecutive days. As you write, be encouraged to use the affirmation below to sustain you on your journey to defining your future.

      A Daily Affirmation for Success

      I love myself, and I am worthy of others’ love.

      I am smart. I excel in and out of school daily.

      For positive reinforcement of my beliefs about myself,

      I will read daily

      a poem by Langston Hughes or a poem by Maya Angelou.

      As a teenage girl using this journal,

      the world can become my creation when I

      imagine it, write it, visualize it, plan it, execute it, do it, and implement it!

      I will preserve a right mental attitude.

      This includes an attitude of courage, frankness, and good cheer.

      To think rightly is to create.

      All things come through desire, and

      every sincere prayer is answered.

      Indeed, we become like that on which our hearts are fixed.

      Foreword

      Diana Daniels, Executive Director

      National Council for Educating Black Children

      What happens to a dream deferred? In A Ninety-Day Empowerment Journal for Young Women, the author, Dr. Gwendolyn J. Cooke, provides a blueprint for continuous attention to varied challenges that are unique to adolescent girls’ maturation. In three parts—Love Yourself, Create Positive Relationships, and You and Your Future—adolescent girls are required to think and use a variety of resources to address successfully daily challenges they are experiencing. The attainment of dreams becomes more possible as they learn how to remain focused on their dreams and not have to defer achieving them because of poor decision making.

      For example, take teenage girls’ obsession with multimedia presentations of what is beautiful. Being thin is in. Showing skin is in. Short and tight—spandex preferably—is the cover of choice, and wearing it makes one all right. A face with lots of makeup trumps a light blush and lip gloss. Fashionable high-heeled shoes (that lead to feet problems for the rest of their lives) are a must!

      Using a journal format, the author gains and maintains the interest of girls by using an on spot strategy. Entries into a journal are required. However, the required writing is not too long, nor is it too brief. Writing requirements are linked, moreover, to the Internet, a tool that students are required to use in most schools. Thus, the girls’ skill with using technology is not viewed as only accessing dull work to be completed for their teachers. Many accessed sites will compel students to interact with parents, teachers, mentors, and peers. And boy, will they have fun!

      This book tells it like it is. Girls completing journal activities will gain understanding of the US Centers for Disease Control’s six risk behaviors for teens:

      1. Tobacco use

      2. Unhealthy dietary behaviors

      3. Inadequate physical activity

      4. Alcohol and other drug use

      5. Sexual behaviors that can result in HIV infection, other sexually transmitted diseases, and unintended pregnancies

      6. Behaviors that may result in intentional injuries (such as violence and suicide) and unintentional injuries

      What better place to discuss these issues than with a caring mentor and peers who have questions too? Journal writing is an appropriate strategy for problem solving when talking it out with a friend, parent, or another significant adult is not possible. It also fosters caution and further consultation with a

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