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Make a list of what makes you happy.  Here's my top ten.
1.   Iced coffee with extra ice cream
2.   Spending time with my family
3.   Music
4.   Dark chocolate
5.   Curling up with a good book
6.   Nice smells like freshly baked bread, coffee brewing, perfume etc.
7.   Gelato
8.   Shopping
9.   Sunshine
10. My dog 
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I've just finished reading Love Tanya by UK vlogger and makeup artist Tanya Burr.  Tanya began her working life on a cosmetics counter and started posting YouTube tutorials.  She now has her own cosmetics range, a YouTube channel with nearly 3 million subscribers, a book and 1.7 million Instagram followers.  Her book is part autobiography, part beauty guide, part life coach and part diary with sections for you to fill in.  In the book Tanya shared her journey with anxiety and how she has learnt to overcome it. I loved it!
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This guy makes working out look fun.
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This is for all you girls who are on Struggle Street - struggling with school and exams, having a difficult time with your family, ditched by your friends, dumped by your boyfriend or just down in the dumps.  This song always lifts my mood.
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You'll never be that girl, because you're you.  Besides, I think that you'll find being that girl isn't all it's cracked up to be and being you can be pretty darn wonderful - it depends how you look at it.
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This week is National Volunteer Week.  You're never too young to volunteer.  Did you know that volunteers are happier, healthier and sleep better than those who don't volunteer?  Your school may have some volunteering programs that it's already involved in.  If they don't speak to one of the teachers at your school and see if they can organise something.  Or you can check out volunteeringaustralia.org and click on your state to search for volunteer agencies.
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I just googled amazing teen and three of the top ten sites listed were port sites.  Only three of the top ten sites were about teens doing amazinig things. I believe the Internet is a great resource but sometimes it's a bit like wading through a sewrage treatment plant for a diamond. You can't turn on the radio, television or computer or open a magazine without being confronted by sex. Some of the music videos and advertisements are soft porn.  As renowned psychologist, Dr Michael Gregg-Carr pointed out, sex is not a sport. Danielle Miller, in her book, The Girl with the Butterfly Tattoo, pointed out that "researches have found that exposure to sexualised imagery is linked to teens feeling increased anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, body image problems, eating disorders and self harm." Don't buy into the lie that you have to be sexy for boys to like you. Use your consumer power (change the channel, don't buy the magazine) to let companies know that it's not okay to portray women as mere sex objects.

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