Teen Psychic: Exploring Your Intuitive Spiritual Powers [Paperback]

Julie Tallard Johnson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 6, 2003

Teaches teens to develop and use their intuitive powers

• Includes quizzes, meditations, journal entries, popular quotes, and fun exercises to introduce teens to their intuitive powers

• Combines both contemporary and ancient stories of spiritual and intuitive empowerment

• By the author of The Thundering Years: Rituals and Sacred Wisdom for Teens, winner of the 2002 Independent Publisher Book Award for multicultural juvenile nonfiction

In Teen Psychic, award-winning author Julie Tallard Johnson provides a fun, meaningful process for developing your intuitive powers, as well as practical guidance in applying those powers to your personal spiritual journey. The wisdom teachings of numerous traditions blended with activities--such as meditations, exercises, journalizing, and quizzes--will help you tap into a reservoir of inner strength and knowledge, increasing your confidence and self-esteem.

Ancient stories and contemporary teen experiences of spiritual and intuitive empowerment, as well as the author's own insightful narrative, show you how to connect to your inner wisdom and to the greater wisdom that surrounds you. With inspiring quotations from a diverse group of wisdomkeepers including Caroline Myss, Black Elk, Anodea Judith, Myron Eshowsky, and Ch�m Trungpa, Teen Psychic helps you discover your true nature by accessing your intuitive powers and developing your psychic self.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

There was a time when young people were routinely taught how to develop their intuitive and spiritual powers, according to Tallard Johnson, a psychotherapist and mentor of young teens. This "ability to access inner wisdom" was once considered an essential part of an adolescent's schooling. Nowadays, such training seems to have fallen by the wayside. Ironically, with young people facing so many pressures and risks in modern Western culture, a mandatory course in developing a healthy inner guidance system is needed more than ever. Thankfully, Tallard Johnson is helping to fill the void. Her primary goal is to help teenagers listen to their true feelings, learn to read their own energy and become more adept at living a life that is congruent with their inner wisdom (aka intuition). It's hard to find fault with her ambitions or delivery. Drawing from an eclectic stew of wisdom (such as the Sufi tradition of breathing, the yoga Chakra system, Tibetan Buddhism and the I Ching), Tallard Johnson offers an excellent primer on connecting with the inner spirit. Designed like a workbook, every chapter includes compelling testimonials, folk tales, ancient teachings, practical exercises and journaling assignments. Tallard Johnson covers many core concerns of teenagers-how to become an individual, develop self-loving beliefs, recognize and overcome substance and emotional abuse, make decisions from the higher self, create healthy relationships and find a safe spiritual teacher. Don't be turned off by the seemingly trite title-this is a book of merit and depth.
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From Booklist

Reviewed with James Van Praagh's Looking Beyond.

Gr. 8-12. Teens have a great fascination with the paranormal, and these books discuss the psychic and spiritual realms using situations and explanations geared to a young audience. Van Praagh, familiar from his television show, Beyond, homes in on the larger questions teens are most interested in (Why are we here? Can we transform our lives?) as well as particular ones (Are there spirit guides and soul mates?). His book distills a lot of information found in other self-help books, adding a patina of psychic principles, and he writes easily about such topics as incorporating intuition and meditation into one's life and ways to be true to oneself. Although his frequent references to pop culture occasionally sound condescending, they will draw in readers. Johnson covers much of the same material, though with more jargon, and her discussion of spiritual practices is more heavy duty. The first half of the book is devoted to working with the body's chakra system; the second focuses on the path of the psychic visionary. An extensive source list for teens wanting to continue their personal journey concludes. Ilene Cooper
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Bindu Books (November 6, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892810947
• ISBN-13: 978-0892810949
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 8.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #685,541 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

AAbout the Author

Julie Tallard Johnson is a licensed psychotherapist who maintains a private healing service, Healing Services Overlooking the River, established in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, in 1995. Here she offers the Wheel of Initiation course, spiritual journaling classes, and one-on-one transpersonal counseling. Her studies and investigation into cognitive-behavioral therapy, mind training, Buddhist philosophy, transpersonal counseling, and group dynamics lead to her development of the Wheel of Initiation and a year-long Initiation course, which she has facilitated since 1998. She employs a multicultural approach in her work, knowing that each person has to find a spiritual practice that is personally relevant for them. In 2008 the land adjacent to her practice was opened up so that others could enjoy its Three-jewel labyrinth, one-acre prairie spiral, and 40 acres of nature paths as a place for meditations and writing retreats.
Julie obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison where she had a double major in sociology and social work. In 1982 she began her career as a social worker and case manager of a program in Minneapolis for those with chronic and persistent mental illness. She soon became supervisor of a new program where she designed and coordinated "friendship circles" for the mentally ill.
While in graduate school at the University of Minnesota at Duluth, she researched self-help and support groups and could not find one that was set up for siblings and adult children of the mentally ill. As a result, she designed and authored The Eight Stage Healing Process for Families and Friends of the Mentally Ill. This book was published by Doubleday in 1989 and Julie toured the United States, Canada, and Australia teaching the eight stages and offering instructions on how to set up a healthy self-help group. She founded the National Siblings Network in the United States through the Alliance of the Mentally Ill, and Australia adopted her eight-stage protocol, incorporating it into their primary national program for families of the mentally ill.
Julie has studied neurolinguistic programming (NLP), cognitive behavioral and rational emotive therapies (RET), as well as mind training. Through her continued studies she came to value narrative therapies (storytelling) in helping others to heal, and she has integrated this dynamic into her own work.
In addition, she is a teacher of Vipassana meditation, which she has also practiced for many years. She took instruction in Rebirthing Breathwork as well as Shamnic Breathwork, Bindu Breathwork™. Along with this she studied and applied mandala work and the healing power of circles, wheels, and mandalas in the transformative process.
Julie is the author of nine books, two for adults and seven for youth.
They are:
Hidden Victims Hidden Healers: An Eight-Stage Process for Friends and Family of the Mentally Ill
Understanding Mental Illness: for Teens Who Care About Someone with Mental Illness
Celebrate You: Building Your Self-Esteem
Making Friends Finding Love
The Thundering Years: Rituals and Sacred Wisdom of Teens
Teen Psychic: Exploring Your Intuitive and Spiritual Powers
I Ching for Teens: Take Charge of Your Destiny with the Ancient Chinese Oracle
Spiritual Journaling: Writing your Way to Independence
The Wheel of Initiation: Practices for Releasing Your Inner Light

Julie has also self-published a manual for group facilitators of the Eight Stage Healing Process. She has received many positive reviews and awards for her books including three Roundtable awards, Best Youth book from New York Library, and the Independent Book award for best multicultural book for youth for The Thundering Years: Rituals and Sacred Wisdom for Teens (His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote a piece for this book). Her Teen Psychic: Developing Your Intuitive and Spiritual Powers book received a Star Review in Publisher's Weekly and remains one of her most popular books with young readers.
Julie has a monthly blog that she updates regularly, offering readers a means for spiritual inquiry through journaling and meditation. She also writes a column on spirituality for a local newsletter, From the Spirit. She lives with her husband, Bill, and daughter, Lydia, in Spring Green, Wisconsin.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This fabulous book is NOT JUST FOR TEENS, October 28, 2005

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Circling Red Hawk Woman - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teen Psychic: Exploring Your Intuitive Spiritual Powers (Paperback)

Teen Psychic is not just for teens! Many of us, who are now adults, were not taught how to listen to and act on our inner voice - our psychic voice. This book helps people learn how to do this, at any age. I teach a class where we focus on learning how to listen to your intuition in order to live a more fulfilling life. I refer to this book all the time for meditations, exercises, lessons, you name it. Thank you Julie Tallard Johnson for writing such a great reference book that is insightful, and easy to ready and understand. May we all find the ability to live our lives more intuitively and allow one another to be our truest self.

Circling Red Hawk Woman

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book!!, October 24, 2005

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Jenelle Arp "Jenelle" (Baton Rouge , Louisiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teen Psychic: Exploring Your Intuitive Spiritual Powers (Paperback)

I love Teen Psychic. My life coach recommend it to me. If you are new to meditating/journaling. This book has several exercises for you to practice these abilities. I learn more about my intuition and wisdom body. I'm amazed at how our bodies gives us answers. I'm 23 years old but these book is also popular with older adults.
It was also interesting reading the stories written by young adults in the book and relating to them on several levels. Teen Psychic spoke to me and I'm sure it will to you too!! =)

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, August 5, 2005

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Tristan Logue "Earth Tweaker" (Savannah, Ga) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teen Psychic: Exploring Your Intuitive Spiritual Powers (Paperback)

I read this book adn did the meditations inside it and i feel great. I used to be inconfident and in pain all the time. I founds out from reading this book that i was in pain because i had been living the way my parents wanted me to, instead of how i was meant to. I am now much more confident and i feel great! Thanks Julie!