Summary of Donna Jackson Nakazawa's Girls on the Brink

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#1 Having a perfect body, or being part of the popular crowd, or being liked by everyone in school all make you feel like your own problems are not valid.

#2 Having a perfect body, or being part of the popular crowd, or being liked by everyone in school all make you feel like your own problems are not valid.

#3 Having a perfect body, or being popular, or being liked by everyone in school all make you feel like your own problems are not valid.

#4 The trauma Anna suffered and the emotional distress she experienced as a young adult are not garden-variety teenage growing pains. Her story is one shared by many girls today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Oct 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350040487

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

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Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Having a perfect body, or being part of the popular crowd, or being liked by everyone in school all make you feel like your own problems are not valid.

#2

Having a perfect body, or being part of the popular crowd, or being liked by everyone in school all make you feel like your own problems are not valid.

#3

Having a perfect body, or being popular, or being liked by everyone in school all make you feel like your own problems are not valid.

#4

The trauma Anna suffered and the emotional distress she experienced as a young adult are not garden-variety teenage growing pains. Her story is one shared by many girls today.

#5

Don’t ignore the struggles of girls and young women, because they’re not the same as the struggles of boys and young men.

#6

The science of sex differences in the brain and how it impacts stress and anxiety is still being discovered, but it appears that chronic stressors affect the female brain differently than they do the male brain, and that these differences are seen most clearly during puberty.

#7

The four domains of childhood stress are household, environmental, community, and social.

#8

The world our children are growing up in is one of tremendous uncertainty, with a looming threat of violence, disease, and global chaos.

#9

The world our children are growing up in is one of tremendous uncertainty, and they are being asked to deal with it while being scared about what kind of future they can hope to have.

#10

The world our children are growing up in is one of tremendous uncertainty, and they are being asked to deal with it while being scared about what kind